"Constantia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... advised that the suit should be dropped and the money saved. Other experiences only increased his repugnance to his profession.[211] A singularly strong impression had been made upon him by the Memoirs of Teresa Constantia Phipps, in which there is an account of vexatious legal proceedings as to the heroine's marriage. He appears to have first read this book in 1759. Then, he says, the 'Demon of Chicane appeared to me in all his hideousness. ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen
... serious wound in the heart coming from a public singer, so Chopin (unless we except his pupil, the Princess Elisa Radziwill) seems to have been caught very young by Constantia Gladkovska. She made a great success at Warsaw in the year which was Chopin's twentieth. He had previously indulged in a mild flirtation with a pretty little pianist and composer, Leopoldine Blahetka, but in her case he seems less to have loved than to have graciously permitted ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes
... is over, Aunt Constantia. Forget it, as I have done, and drink a little of this. The Sisters believe it to be calming to ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves
... mira constantia medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem coloniae non insigne, sed copia negotiatorum et commeatuum ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe |
