The Quarterly Review, Volume 73John Murray, 1843 - English literature |
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Page 79
... Madame de Vintimille . He compares Madame de Chateauroux to Agnes Sorel . He flatters the taste in drawing and costume , the wit , the beauty , the tact , of Madame de Pompadour - as if she were still living , and he an abbé of the time ...
... Madame de Vintimille . He compares Madame de Chateauroux to Agnes Sorel . He flatters the taste in drawing and costume , the wit , the beauty , the tact , of Madame de Pompadour - as if she were still living , and he an abbé of the time ...
Page 275
... Madame Eliza- beth , a saint , if it be allowed to any mortal to be a saint . Not only innocent but inoffensive , she lived , in spite of her high birth , in a modest obscurity , —she was a personification of piety , of domes- tic love ...
... Madame Eliza- beth , a saint , if it be allowed to any mortal to be a saint . Not only innocent but inoffensive , she lived , in spite of her high birth , in a modest obscurity , —she was a personification of piety , of domes- tic love ...
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Phlipon Madame Roland , a woman of humble birth , with great am- bition , narrow education with a great love of literature , strong pas- sions with a cold temper , and possessing above all that dangerous species of talent which decides ...
Phlipon Madame Roland , a woman of humble birth , with great am- bition , narrow education with a great love of literature , strong pas- sions with a cold temper , and possessing above all that dangerous species of talent which decides ...
Contents
Vaudois 1842 | 3 |
A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the late William | 27 |
Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of Ame | 113 |
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