The Wits and Beaus of Society, المجلد 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... person -whatever their rank , sex , or order - who should infringe the rights of these holy men . ' May their memory , ' the king decreed , with a force worthy of the excommunicator - wholesale , Pius IX . , ' be blotted out of the Book ...
... person -whatever their rank , sex , or order - who should infringe the rights of these holy men . ' May their memory , ' the king decreed , with a force worthy of the excommunicator - wholesale , Pius IX . , ' be blotted out of the Book ...
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... persons - put on , if we can , the sentiments and habits of the retreat ; look through its loop- holes , not only on the wide world beyond , but into the small world within ; and face the fine gentleman author in every . period of his ...
... persons - put on , if we can , the sentiments and habits of the retreat ; look through its loop- holes , not only on the wide world beyond , but into the small world within ; and face the fine gentleman author in every . period of his ...
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... persons only should compose a party , and one party alone be shown over each day — how would he have borne the crisis , could he have foreseen it , when Robins became , for the time , his successor , and was the temporary lord of ...
... persons only should compose a party , and one party alone be shown over each day — how would he have borne the crisis , could he have foreseen it , when Robins became , for the time , his successor , and was the temporary lord of ...
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... person , Horace Walpole , after the grave had closed over one whom he probably envied , thus describes him : - : - ' Commanding beauty , smoothed by cheerful grace , Sat on each open feature of his face . Bold was his language , rapid ...
... person , Horace Walpole , after the grave had closed over one whom he probably envied , thus describes him : - : - ' Commanding beauty , smoothed by cheerful grace , Sat on each open feature of his face . Bold was his language , rapid ...
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... person to be gracious to ? The duchess made her a most grave curt- sey , and said , “ Indeed , there was one thing she had set her heart on . " - " Dear child , how you oblige me by asking any- thing ! What is it ? Tell me . " - " Only ...
... person to be gracious to ? The duchess made her a most grave curt- sey , and said , “ Indeed , there was one thing she had set her heart on . " - " Dear child , how you oblige me by asking any- thing ! What is it ? Tell me . " - " Only ...
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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.