The Wits and Beaus of Society, المجلد 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... Stories fixed on Sheridan . - Extempore Wit and Inveterate Talkers . BEAU BRUMMELL . • p . 82 Two popular Sciences .- ' Buck Brummell ' at Eton . - Investing his Capital.- Young Cornet Brummell . - The Beau's Studio . - The Toilet ...
... Stories fixed on Sheridan . - Extempore Wit and Inveterate Talkers . BEAU BRUMMELL . • p . 82 Two popular Sciences .- ' Buck Brummell ' at Eton . - Investing his Capital.- Young Cornet Brummell . - The Beau's Studio . - The Toilet ...
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... story of Chatterton's fate was painfully mixed up with the tenour of Horace Walpole's life . The gifted and unfortunate Thomas Chatterton was born at Bristol in 1752. Even from his birth fate seemed to pursue him , for he was a ...
... story of Chatterton's fate was painfully mixed up with the tenour of Horace Walpole's life . The gifted and unfortunate Thomas Chatterton was born at Bristol in 1752. Even from his birth fate seemed to pursue him , for he was a ...
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... story , he adds , was a curious one : their descent Scotch ; their grandfather had an estate of £ 5,000 a year , but disinherited his son on account of his marrying a woman with no fortune . She died , and the grand- father , wishing ...
... story , he adds , was a curious one : their descent Scotch ; their grandfather had an estate of £ 5,000 a year , but disinherited his son on account of his marrying a woman with no fortune . She died , and the grand- father , wishing ...
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... story fathered on Selwyn which has no origin but in the brain of its narrator . George Augustus Selwyn , then , famous for his wit , and noto- rious for his love of horrors , was the second son of a country gentleman , of Matson , in ...
... story fathered on Selwyn which has no origin but in the brain of its narrator . George Augustus Selwyn , then , famous for his wit , and noto- rious for his love of horrors , was the second son of a country gentleman , of Matson , in ...
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... story to Sel wyn , the latter told him , as a most important communication , that Arthur Moore had had his coffin chained to that of his mistress . ' Lord ! how do you know ? ' asked Horace . ' Why , I saw them the other day in a vault ...
... story to Sel wyn , the latter told him , as a most important communication , that Arthur Moore had had his coffin chained to that of his mistress . ' Lord ! how do you know ? ' asked Horace . ' Why , I saw them the other day in a vault ...
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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.