Court Life Below Stairs: Or, London Under the First Georges, 1714-1760, المجلد 1Hurst and Blackett, 1882 |
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الصفحة 219 - 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 155 - ... above constraint ; not reflecting that a high rank carries along with it a necessity of a more decent and regular behaviour than is expected from those who are not set in so conspicuous a light. He was so far from being of that opinion, that he looked on all the men and women he saw as creatures he might kick or kiss for his diversion...
الصفحة 222 - ... 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 175 - 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 312 - Walpole in which these terms were discussed, took him by the hand and said, " Consider, Sir Robert, what makes me easy in this matter will prove for your ease too ; it is for my life it is to be fixed, and it is for your life.
الصفحة 262 - A little after, Dryden went out, and in going, spoke to me again, and desired me to come and see him the next day.
الصفحة 115 - ... inveighed against, as they might justly be, it is gravely stated, amongst other grounds of complaint, that they are not sufficiently young and handsome ! For instance, the letter of Decius in Mist's Journal, May 27. 1721, laments, that "we are ruined by trulls...
الصفحة 276 - He entered so far into the subject, that he seemed almost to have forgot the business for which I came thither. At last, however, he recollected himself, and said; "I beg your pardon, Sir Godfrey; I was so taken up with the pleasure of conversing with you ! — But, apropos, pray, Sir, what religion may you be of? — "Why truly, Sir, (says I) I am of no religion.
الصفحة 265 - There is a silly habit among many of our minor orators, who display their eloquence in the several coffee-houses of this fair city, to the no small annoyance of considerable numbers of her majesty's spruce and loving subjects, and that is a humour they have got of twisting off your buttons. These ingenious gentlemen are not able to advance three words until they have got fast hold of one of your buttons ; but as soon as they have procured such an excellent handle for discourse, they will indeed proceed...
الصفحة 11 - He would have grown rich by saving, but was incapable of laying schemes for getting ; he was more properly dull than lazy, and would have been so well contented to have remained in his little town of Hanover, that if the ambition of those about him had not been greater than his own, we should never have seen him in England...