The Wits and Beaus of Society, المجلد 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... Hours . - Let us not be Ungrateful . p . I GEORGE SELWYN . A Love of Horrors . - Anecdotes of Selwyn's Mother . - Selwyn's College Days . -Orator Henley . - Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak . - The Profession of a Wit . The Thirst for Hazard ...
... Hours . - Let us not be Ungrateful . p . I GEORGE SELWYN . A Love of Horrors . - Anecdotes of Selwyn's Mother . - Selwyn's College Days . -Orator Henley . - Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak . - The Profession of a Wit . The Thirst for Hazard ...
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... Hours . - Let us not be Ungrateful . IF AD this elegant writer , remarks the compiler of ' Wal- poliana , ' composed memoirs of his own life , an example authorized by eminent names , ancient and modern , every other pen must have been ...
... Hours . - Let us not be Ungrateful . IF AD this elegant writer , remarks the compiler of ' Wal- poliana , ' composed memoirs of his own life , an example authorized by eminent names , ancient and modern , every other pen must have been ...
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... hour before the time . I met several on the birthday ( for I did not arrive time enough to make clothes ) , and they were dressed in all the colours of the rainbow . They seem to have said to themselves , twenty years ago , " Well , if ...
... hour before the time . I met several on the birthday ( for I did not arrive time enough to make clothes ) , and they were dressed in all the colours of the rainbow . They seem to have said to themselves , twenty years ago , " Well , if ...
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... hour , Of social pleasure , ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe , Smile without art , and win without a bribe . ' Amid the coarse taste one gentle refinement existed : this 18 Sir Robert's Love of ...
... hour , Of social pleasure , ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe , Smile without art , and win without a bribe . ' Amid the coarse taste one gentle refinement existed : this 18 Sir Robert's Love of ...
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... hours of dangling , and no disgrace attending me , from sixty - seven years of age . Within doors we come a little nearer to real life , and admire , upon the almost speaking can- vas , all the airs and graces the proudest ladies can ...
... hours of dangling , and no disgrace attending me , from sixty - seven years of age . Within doors we come a little nearer to real life , and admire , upon the almost speaking can- vas , all the airs and graces the proudest ladies can ...
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admired afterwards amusing anecdote asked Beau beautiful became brother Brummell Bubb Dodington called character Charles club court cried daughter death debt delighted dinner dress Drury Lane Duchess Duke Earl Edinburgh England Eton fame famous fashion father fool genius gentleman George II George Selwyn heart Holland honour Hook Hook's Horace Walpole Houghton Jeffrey king Lady laugh Leicester House letters Linley lived London look Lord Cockburn Lord Hervey Lord Holland Ludgershall Mackintosh manner married mind mother never night once Oxford party passed perhaps political Pomfret poor prince Prince of Wales replied ridicule scarcely School for Scandal seems sent Sheridan Sir Robert society spirit story Strawberry Hill Street Sydney Smith talents talked taste Theodore Theodore Hook thought told took Twickenham vulgar Wales Walpole's wife wine wonderful wrote young youth
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الصفحة 64 - The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be glad to see me.
الصفحة 3 - I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.
الصفحة 233 - Sir, it is not a talent; it is a vice; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers : it is a farce which exhibits individuals.
الصفحة 89 - 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.
الصفحة 224 - it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
الصفحة 7 - Youthful passages of life are the chippings of Pitt's diamond, set into little heart-rings with mottoes ; the stone itself more worth, the filings more gentle and agreeable. — Alexander, at the head of the world, never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. Little intrigues, little schemes, and policies engage their thoughts ; and, at the same time that they are laying the foundation for their middle age of life, the mimic republic they live in furnishes...
الصفحة 100 - ... and if they were reserved for the proper stage, they would, no doubt, receive what the Honourable Gentleman's abilities always did receive, the plaudits of the audience ; and it would be his. fortune 'sui plausu gaudere theatri.' But this was not the proper scene for the exhibition of those elegancies.
الصفحة 7 - No old maid's gown, though it had been tormented into all the fashions from King James to King George, ever underwent so many transformations as those poor plains have in my idea. At first I was contented with tending a visionary flock, and sighing some pastoral name to the echo of the cascade under the bridge.
الصفحة 117 - If the thought (he would say) is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it, and, when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.