Court Life Below Stairs: Or, London Under the First Georges, 1714-1760, المجلد 1Hurst and Blackett, 1882 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
afterwards anxious ballad beauty became Bishop called charms Chesterfield Cibber Civil List club coach coffee-house Colley Cibber coloured Countess court courtiers crowd daughter death declared delight Derry desire drawing-room Duchess of Kendal Duchess of Shrewsbury Duke Earl Elector England English entertainment father favour favourites friends gave gentlemen George Augustus George Lewis German give Grace hand Hanover Hanoverian honour Horace Walpole House of Hanover Howard husband James's king's Kit-cat Lady Cowper Lady Mary laughed Leicester House letter looked Lord Lord Hervey Madame Kilmansegge Madame Platen maid-of-honour Majesty Majesty's merry ministers mistresses never night occasion once palace Parliament person play play-house poet Pope Prince and Princess Prince of Wales Prince's Princess of Wales Queen reign Richmond Royal Highness says Schulenburg sent Sir Robert Walpole Sophia Dorothea streets Stuart things throne tion told Tonson took town whilst wife woman words writes
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 223 - And sensible soft melancholy. "Has she no faults then, (Envy says) Sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver; When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.
الصفحة 128 - There was a drawing-room to-day at court : but so few company, that the Queen sent for us into her bed-chamber, where we made our bows, and stood about twenty of us round the room, while she looked at us round with her fan in her mouth, and once a minute said about three words to some that were nearest her, and then she was told dinner was ready, and went out.
الصفحة 115 - The next day lord Chetwynd, the ranger of my park, sent me a fine brace of carp out of my canal ; and I was told I must give five guineas to lord Chetwynd's servant for bringing me my own carp out of my own canal in my own park...
الصفحة 194 - But yesterday was the greatest stroke of all ! She made her ladies vow to her, that if she should lie senseless, they would not sit down in the room before she was dead.
الصفحة 226 - ... men of sense ; I mean a low cunning, which gave her an inclination to cheat all the people she conversed with, and often cheated herself in the first place, by showing her the wrong side of her interest, not having understanding enough to observe that falsehood in conversation, like red on the face, should be used very seldom and very sparingly, or they destroy that interest and beauty which they are designed to heighten.
الصفحة 133 - Bolingbroke's, who, of all those rascals and knaves that 'have been lying against me these ten years, has certainly the best parts and the most knowledge: he is a scoundrel, but he is a scoundrel of a higher class than Chesterfield. Chesterfield is a little teatable scoundrel, that tells little womanish lies to make quarrels in families; and tries to make women lose their reputations, and make their husbands beat them, without any object but to give himself airs; as if anybody could believe a woman...
الصفحة 179 - What was my astonishment/ continued Lady Suffolk, ' when going to the Princess's apartment the next morning, the yeomen in the guard chamber pointed their halberds at my breast, and told me I must not pass! I urged that it was my duty to attend the Princess. They said, No matter, I must not pass that way!
الصفحة 314 - Robert, what makes me easy in this matter' (ie, the Civil List), 'will prove for your ease too. It is for my life it is to be fixed, and it is for your life.
الصفحة 121 - we are ruined by trulls, nay, what is more " vexatious , by old ugly trulls , such as could not find enter"tainment in the most hospitable hundreds of OldDrury!
الصفحة 266 - On this, Dryden turned short upon me, as surprised at my interposing; asked me how long " I had been a dealer in poetry," and added, with a smile, " Pray, sir, what is it that you did imagine to have been writ so before?" I named Boileau's " Lutrin" and Tassoni's " Secchia Rapita," which I had read, and knew Dryden had borrowed some strokes from each.