The Wits and Beaux of SocietyHarper, 1861 - 481 pagina's |
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Pagina 25
... give them a song on the Duchess of Richmond and the Duke of Buckingham : nothing could be more acceptable . " The mob , " it is related , " stopped the coach and the duchess . Nay , so outrageous were the mob , that they forced the ...
... give them a song on the Duchess of Richmond and the Duke of Buckingham : nothing could be more acceptable . " The mob , " it is related , " stopped the coach and the duchess . Nay , so outrageous were the mob , that they forced the ...
Pagina 26
... give much credence to this lady's humility : Bridget was , however , a woman of powerful intellect , weakened by her extreme , and to use a now common term , crotchety opinions . Like most esprits forts , she was easily imposed upon ...
... give much credence to this lady's humility : Bridget was , however , a woman of powerful intellect , weakened by her extreme , and to use a now common term , crotchety opinions . Like most esprits forts , she was easily imposed upon ...
Pagina 39
... give you warning , if he by any means comes to a violent end , I shall not be at a loss to know the author . I shall consider you as an assassin , and shall treat you as such ; and wherever I meet you I shall pistol you , though you ...
... give you warning , if he by any means comes to a violent end , I shall not be at a loss to know the author . I shall consider you as an assassin , and shall treat you as such ; and wherever I meet you I shall pistol you , though you ...
Pagina 52
... give a supper ! " " Stupid fellow ! " cried De Grammont . " Cameran plays at quinze : so do I : we want money . He has more than he knows what to do with : we give a supper , he pays for it . However , " he added , " it is necessary to ...
... give a supper ! " " Stupid fellow ! " cried De Grammont . " Cameran plays at quinze : so do I : we want money . He has more than he knows what to do with : we give a supper , he pays for it . However , " he added , " it is necessary to ...
Pagina 53
... give him the least uneasiness to continue . " The chevalier allowed the count to play upon credit , and that act of courtesy was taken very kindly : the dupe lost 1500 pistoles , which he paid the next morning , when Matta was sharply ...
... give him the least uneasiness to continue . " The chevalier allowed the count to play upon credit , and that act of courtesy was taken very kindly : the dupe lost 1500 pistoles , which he paid the next morning , when Matta was sharply ...
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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.