Celebrated Women
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共 26 段- "For a long time the songs, a thousand times repeated, conti
- Having recovered possession of her estates, thanks to the am
- Her poetical faculties were first stimulated by her voyage t
- "We were now," writes Madame de Hell, "in an enchanted regio
- Madame de Hell and her husband spent the winter at Odessa; a
- Remote from the ordinary track as was Mademoiselle Jacquemar
- She was born at Tuorla Manor House, near Abo in Finland, on
- The manners and customs most opposed to European ideas found
- The Holy Land comes in sight, and a flood of emotions rushes
- "The scenery was wild, and of an imposing grandeur. The sun
- Alexina Tinne reached at length the junction of the Sobat wi
- The motives by which travellers are actuated are as various
- Having fully satisfied herself with admiring the lake and it
- In the course of her wanderings through the wild highlands o
- "To-day," she writes in her journal, "I have had the great h
- "We knocked at the door of a tolerably spacious house, situa
- Irkutsk was very pleasant to our travellers after their long
- To her visitor Lady Hester seemed about fifty years of age;
- In what follows we are almost inclined to suspect a degree o
- The greatest bustle and animation prevailed, and there were
- Scenes there are many in this wide world of ours which neith
- In 1830 Lady Morgan's fecund pen compiled a second book upon
- Of the numerous suicides which half a century ago were recor
- The next joke was connected with the Jewesses, four or five
- Traversing Colorado, in the neighbourhood of the Plate River
- Her descriptions of Tahiti, the Eden of the Pacific, are not