The Wits and Beaux of SocietyHarper, 1861 - 481 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... London , and disguising himself as a mountebank . He had a coat made , called a " Jack Pudding Coat : " a little hat was stuck on his head , with a fox's tail in it , and cocks ' feathers here and there . A wizard's mask one day , a ...
... London , and disguising himself as a mountebank . He had a coat made , called a " Jack Pudding Coat : " a little hat was stuck on his head , with a fox's tail in it , and cocks ' feathers here and there . A wizard's mask one day , a ...
Pagina 41
... London . In yon sanctimonious - looking closet , next to the duchess's bedchamber , with her psalter and her prayer - book on her desk , which is fixed to her great chair , and that very cane which still hangs there serving as her ...
... London . In yon sanctimonious - looking closet , next to the duchess's bedchamber , with her psalter and her prayer - book on her desk , which is fixed to her great chair , and that very cane which still hangs there serving as her ...
Pagina 67
... London until his majesty should choose to readmit him into his presence . Disguises and practical jokes were the fashion of the day . The use of the mask , which was put down by proclamation soon after the accession of Queen Anne ...
... London until his majesty should choose to readmit him into his presence . Disguises and practical jokes were the fashion of the day . The use of the mask , which was put down by proclamation soon after the accession of Queen Anne ...
Pagina 70
... London , his old propensities came upon him . But the When scarcely out of his boyhood he carried off a young heiress , Elizabeth Mallet , whom De Grammont calls La triste heritiere : and triste , indeed , she naturally was . Possessed ...
... London , his old propensities came upon him . But the When scarcely out of his boyhood he carried off a young heiress , Elizabeth Mallet , whom De Grammont calls La triste heritiere : and triste , indeed , she naturally was . Possessed ...
Pagina 72
... London . " There were other butterflies in that gay court ; beaux with- out wit ; remorseless rakes , incapable of one noble thought or high pursuit ; and among the most foolish and fashionable of these was Henry Jermyn , Lord Dover ...
... London . " There were other butterflies in that gay court ; beaux with- out wit ; remorseless rakes , incapable of one noble thought or high pursuit ; and among the most foolish and fashionable of these was Henry Jermyn , Lord Dover ...
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Pagina 218 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Pagina 217 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Pagina 91 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Pagina 218 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Pagina 46 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends ! His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advised him,
Pagina 458 - May I (can worse disgrace on manhood fall ?) Be born a Whitehead, and baptized a Paul !" yet I shall never be persuaded to think meanly of the authour of so brilliant and pointed a satire as
Pagina 16 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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Pagina 45 - Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Pagina 338 - I allowed him all his own merit." He now added, "Sheridan cannot bear me. I bring his declamation to a point. I ask him a plain question, 'What do you mean to teach?' Besides, Sir, what influence can Mr. Sheridan have upon the language of this great country, by his narrow exertions? Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to show light at Calais.