 ... was to continue with her until she should sink to the grave in a polite old age, leaving regrets and a great quantity of consols behind her — as if there were not cares and duns, schemes, shifts, and poverty, waiting outside the park gates, to pounce...  Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero - 500. lappuseautors: William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 784 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1854 - 718 lapas
...passed their life in those calm pursuits and amusements which satisfy country ladies. Rebecca sung Handel and Haydn to the family of evenings, and engaged...think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand ayear. I could dawdle about in the nursery, and count the apricots on the wall. I could water plants... | |
 | 1848 - 738 lapas
...If she finds town-society stupid, she is not more pleased with moralizing at her brother-in-law's. '"It isn't difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,' Rebecca thought. ' I tTiink I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a-year. I could dawdle about ¡n the nursery... | |
 | 1904 - 668 lapas
...cited by HIPPOCLIDES. " ' It isn 't difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,' Rebecca thought. Ч think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year ' " ('Vanity Fair,' chap. xli.). EEB [Several correspondents are thanked for the reference.] _GLO\VWOEM... | |
 | 1848 - 708 lapas
...she finds town,society stupid, she is not more pleased with moralizing at her brother-in-law's. " ' It isn't difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,'...think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a-year. I could dawdle about in the nursery and count tho apricots on the wall. I could water plants... | |
 | 1855 - 864 lapas
...her simple philosophy. " • It is not difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,' Rebecca thought ' I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year...the apricots on the wall ; I could water plants in a green house, and pick off dead leaves from the geraniums. I could ask old women about their rheumatisms,... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 746 lapas
...If she finds town-society stupid, she is not more pleased with ruralizing at her brother-in-law's. "'It isn't difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,'...think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a-year. I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall. I could water plants... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 744 lapas
...If she finds town-society stupid, she is not more pleased with ruralizing at her brother-in-law's. •'It isn't difficult to be a country gentleman's...think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a-year. I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall. I could water plants... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 732 lapas
...If she finds town-society stupid, she is not more pleased with ruralizing at her brother-in-law's. "'It isn't difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,'...thought. 'I think I could be a good woman if I had nve thousand a-year. I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall. I could... | |
 | Charles Astor Bristed - 1858 - 736 lapas
...If she finds town-society stupid, she is not more pleased with rurab'zing at her brother-in-law's. "It isn't difficult to be a country gentleman's wife,'...thought . 'I think I could be a good woman if I had flve thousand a-year. I could dawdle about in the nursery and count the apricots on the wall. I could... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1864 - 538 lapas
...passed their life in those calm pursuits and amusements which satisfy country ladies. Rebecca sung Handel and Haydn to the family of evenings, and engaged...think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a-year. I could dawdle about in the nursery, and count the apricots on the wall. I could water plants... | |
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