 ... the species of life distasteful to me ; I was lost to all private comfort, dead to all domestic endearment ; I was worn with want of rest, and fatigued with laborious watchfulness and attendance. My time was devoted to official duties ; and all that...  Regency Ladies - Стр. 43авторы: Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1926 - Страниц: 300Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Fanny Burney - 1842 - Страниц: 502
...time was devoted to official duties; and all that in life was dearest to me — my friends, my chosen society, my best affections — lived now in my mind only by recollection, and rested upon that witii nothing but bitter regret. With relations the most deservedly dear, with fiiends of almost unequalled... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1854 - Страниц: 396
...was devoted to official duties ; arid all that in life was dearest to me — my friends, my chosen society, my best affections — lived now in my mind...friends of almost unequalled goodness, I lived like ati orphan — like one who had no natural ties, and must make her way as she could by those that were... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - Страниц: 416
...time was devoted to official duties ; and all that in life was dearest to me — my friends, my chosen society, my best affections — lived now in my mind...had no natural ties, and must make her way as she would by those that were factitious. Melancholy was the existence where happiness was excluded, though... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - Страниц: 412
...time was devoted to official duties ; and all that in 4ife was dearest to me — my friends, my chosen society, my best affections — lived now in my mind...had no natural ties, and must make her way as she would by those that were factitious. Melancholy was the existence where happiness was excluded, though... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1880 - Страниц: 570
...time was devoted to official duties ; and all that in life was dearest to me — my friends, my chosen society, my best affections — lived now in my mind...bitter regret. With relations the most deservedly clear, with friends of almost unequalled goodness, I lived like an orphan — like one who had no natural... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - Страниц: 362
...time was devoted to official duties, and all that in life was dearest to me — my friends, my chosen society, my best affections — lived now in my mind...rested upon that with nothing but bitter regret." When he had listened in silence to all this, Fanny, as she says, turned to look at her father, " but... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1926 - Страниц: 334
...and all that in life was dearest to me—my friends, my choosed society, my best affections—lived now in my mind only by recollection, and rested upon...friends of almost unequalled goodness, I lived like an orphan—like one who had no natural ties, and must make her way as she could by those that were factitious.... | |
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