The British Essayists: The worldT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Pagina 3
... honour them for their extraordinary civilities and good - humour to the seducers of their sex . Should a lady object to the company of such men , it would naturally be said that she suspected her own virtue , and was conscious of ...
... honour them for their extraordinary civilities and good - humour to the seducers of their sex . Should a lady object to the company of such men , it would naturally be said that she suspected her own virtue , and was conscious of ...
Pagina 5
... honours , assert their privileges by the opposite quality to silence ; insomuch , that many of the great estates and mansion - houses in this kingdom seem at pre- sent to be held by the tenure of perpetual talking . Fools and jesters ...
... honours , assert their privileges by the opposite quality to silence ; insomuch , that many of the great estates and mansion - houses in this kingdom seem at pre- sent to be held by the tenure of perpetual talking . Fools and jesters ...
Pagina 18
... honour , who would have gone to the end of the world to have served him . I could have loved him too , but for one fault . He would lie without measure or disguise . His usual exaggeration was - and more . As thus : " At the siege of ...
... honour , who would have gone to the end of the world to have served him . I could have loved him too , but for one fault . He would lie without measure or disguise . His usual exaggeration was - and more . As thus : " At the siege of ...
Pagina 25
... honour of a dignified spendthrift , or an illustrious suicide . ' Having lived so long a voluntary exile from the beau monde , my maxims are exploded as quite ob- solete . My wife and daughters are perpetually as- suring me that I act ...
... honour of a dignified spendthrift , or an illustrious suicide . ' Having lived so long a voluntary exile from the beau monde , my maxims are exploded as quite ob- solete . My wife and daughters are perpetually as- suring me that I act ...
Pagina 27
... honour to Cuckolds , I will be bold to say that they ought oftener to excite envy than contempt . How common is it for a man to owe his fortune to the frailty of his wife ! Or though he should reap no pecuniary advantage from her incon ...
... honour to Cuckolds , I will be bold to say that they ought oftener to excite envy than contempt . How common is it for a man to owe his fortune to the frailty of his wife ! Or though he should reap no pecuniary advantage from her incon ...
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Pagina 53 - ... and better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem, his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop trading all day without his religion.
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Pagina 229 - It must be owned, that our language is, at present, in a state of anarchy, and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it. During our free and open trade, many words and expressions have been imported, adopted, and naturalized from other languages, which have greatly enriched our own. Let it still preserve what...
Pagina 219 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
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Pagina 35 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Pagina 18 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Pagina 52 - What does he therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be.
Pagina 158 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.