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Don't you know very well, in a small place like this, they are all alive with curiosity? and if you choose to make such a tragedy figure, and keep moping and crying, and all that sort of thing, and look so funeste and miserable, you'll be sure to fix attention and set the whole d d place speculating and gossiping? and really, Radie, you're making mountains of mole-hills.
"Do you remember the picture, full-length, that had no frame the lady in the white-satin saque she was beautiful, funeste," he added, talking more to himself; and then more distinctly to Mrs. Julaper again "in the white-satin saque; and with the little mob cap and blue ribbons to it, and a bouquet in her fingers; that was that you know who she was?"
" Un dessein si funeste, S'il n'est digne d'Atree, est digne de Thyeste. They are to be found in Crebillon's 'Atree." Truth is stranger than fiction. For full information on this interesting topic, I must refer the inquisitive reader to the "Isitsoornot" itself, but in the meantime, I shall be pardoned for giving a summary of what I there discovered.
Make this Christmas as merry a one as you can; for 'pour le peu du bon tems qui nous reste, rien nest si funeste, qu'un noir chagrin'. For the new years God send you many, and happy ones! Adieu. By the EARL OF CHESTERFIELD on the Fine Art of becoming a and a LONDON, February 11, 1766
You easily guess I mean COUNTENANCE; for she has given you a very pleasing one; but you beg to be excused, you will not accept it; but on the contrary, take singular pains to put on the most 'funeste', forbidding, and unpleasing one that can possibly be imagined. This one would think impossible; but you know it to be true.
He is well acquainted with my MS., and I just copied into the middle of the blank sheet the words: " ... Un dessein si funeste, S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, este digne de Thyeste. They are to be found in Crébillon's Atrée." Dr.
J'ai vu l'hypocrite honoré: J'ai vu, c'est dire tout, le jésuite adoré: J'ai vu ces maux sous le règne funeste D'un prince que jadis la colère céleste Accorda, par vengeance,
Lessing has, with the most irresistible and victorious wit, pointed out the ludicrous nature of the very plans of Rodogune, Semiramis, Merope, and Zaire. The lines with which Theseus in the Oedipus of Corneille opens his part, are deserving of one of the first places: Quelque ravage affreux qu'etale ici la peste L'absence aux vrais amans est encore plus funeste.
In one paragraph it called the Emperor "a sanguinary tyrant, murderer, and pickpocket;" in a second it owned he was "a magnanimous rebel, and worthy of forgiveness;" and, after proclaiming "the brilliant victory of the Prince of Joinville," presently denominated it a "funeste journee." The next day the Emperor, as we may now call him, was about to march on Paris, when Messrs.
'And though he's handsome, there's something, is there not, funeste in his deep eyes and black hair; and the dear old man knows something strange about him, too; I suppose 'tis all the same story. 'And he has not told you, said Gertrude, looking down with a gloomy face at her fan.
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