The Wits and Beaux of SocietyHarper, 1861 - 481 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... whole Hall was joyful thereat , as well as them- selves ; and now they begin to talk loud of the king . " And the evening was closed , he further tells us , with a large bon- fire in the Exchange , and people called out , " God bless ...
... whole Hall was joyful thereat , as well as them- selves ; and now they begin to talk loud of the king . " And the evening was closed , he further tells us , with a large bon- fire in the Exchange , and people called out , " God bless ...
Pagina 28
... whole house in that style . cr Yorschaux , " as he called it - York House - the French em- bassador had written word to his friends at home , " is the most richly fitted up of any that I saw . " The galleries and state rooms were graced ...
... whole house in that style . cr Yorschaux , " as he called it - York House - the French em- bassador had written word to his friends at home , " is the most richly fitted up of any that I saw . " The galleries and state rooms were graced ...
Pagina 34
... whole countenance , as Lely has painted her , and her history is a disgrace to her age and time . She had numerous lovers ( not in the refined sense of the word ) , and , at last , took up with Thomas Killigrew . He had been , like ...
... whole countenance , as Lely has painted her , and her history is a disgrace to her age and time . She had numerous lovers ( not in the refined sense of the word ) , and , at last , took up with Thomas Killigrew . He had been , like ...
Pagina 35
... whole world , respect and awe . " She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind ; She must be that which she to be would seem , For all true love is grounded on esteem : Plainness and truth gain more a ...
... whole world , respect and awe . " She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind ; She must be that which she to be would seem , For all true love is grounded on esteem : Plainness and truth gain more a ...
Pagina 36
... whole century stands alone , notwithstanding that the very plays it was written ex- pressly to ridicule are ... whole body of vice , " a most fearful censure a most significant description of a bad man . " His parts , " he adds , " are ...
... whole century stands alone , notwithstanding that the very plays it was written ex- pressly to ridicule are ... whole body of vice , " a most fearful censure a most significant description of a bad man . " His parts , " he adds , " are ...
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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.
Pagina 475 - STUDENT'S HISTORY OF ROME. From the EARLIEST TIMES to the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE, With Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By Dean LIDDELL.
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.