The Wits and Beaus of Society, المجلد 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... Its Social and Archi- tectural Features . - Making Love Metaphysically . - The Old Scottish Sup per . - The Men of Mark passing away .-- The Band of Young Spirits.- Contents . Brougham's Early Tenacity . - Fitting up Conversations.-
... Its Social and Archi- tectural Features . - Making Love Metaphysically . - The Old Scottish Sup per . - The Men of Mark passing away .-- The Band of Young Spirits.- Contents . Brougham's Early Tenacity . - Fitting up Conversations.-
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... passing Time . - A sad Day . - What does Dodington come here for ? -The Veteran Wit , Beau , and Politician .- ' Defend us from our Executors and Editors . ' p . 231 SUBJECTS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS . VOLUME II . " WHO'S.
... passing Time . - A sad Day . - What does Dodington come here for ? -The Veteran Wit , Beau , and Politician .- ' Defend us from our Executors and Editors . ' p . 231 SUBJECTS OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS . VOLUME II . " WHO'S.
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... passed under the name of the Duchess of Kendal's niece , but who was , in fact , her daughter , by George I. The polluted rooms in which Lady Walsingham lived were afterwards occupied by the two mis- tresses of George II . — the ...
... passed under the name of the Duchess of Kendal's niece , but who was , in fact , her daughter , by George I. The polluted rooms in which Lady Walsingham lived were afterwards occupied by the two mis- tresses of George II . — the ...
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... passed his days . Like Upcott , like Palissy , Vertue lived and died under the influence of one isolated aim , effort , and hope . In these men , the cherished and amiable monomania of gifted minds was realized . Upcott had every ...
... passed his days . Like Upcott , like Palissy , Vertue lived and died under the influence of one isolated aim , effort , and hope . In these men , the cherished and amiable monomania of gifted minds was realized . Upcott had every ...
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... passed , and in my situation , you will not wonder I shun a conversation which could not be bounded by a letter , a letter that would grow into a panegyric or a piece of a moral ; improper for me to write upon , and too distressful for ...
... passed , and in my situation , you will not wonder I shun a conversation which could not be bounded by a letter , a letter that would grow into a panegyric or a piece of a moral ; improper for me to write upon , and too distressful for ...
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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 person 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.