The Wits and Beaus of Society, المجلد 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... Taste for Swindling . - A Shrewd but Graceless Oxonian . - Duns Outwitted . - The Lawyer Jockeyed . - Adventures with Bailiffs . Sheridan's Powers of Persuasion . - House of Commons Greek.— Curious Mimicry . — The Royal Boon Company ...
... Taste for Swindling . - A Shrewd but Graceless Oxonian . - Duns Outwitted . - The Lawyer Jockeyed . - Adventures with Bailiffs . Sheridan's Powers of Persuasion . - House of Commons Greek.— Curious Mimicry . — The Royal Boon Company ...
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... taste in painting , prints , architecture , and gardening . ' What a companion for a young man of taste and sympathy ! but the friends were far too clever long to agree . Gray was haughty , impatient , intolerant of the peculiarities of ...
... taste in painting , prints , architecture , and gardening . ' What a companion for a young man of taste and sympathy ! but the friends were far too clever long to agree . Gray was haughty , impatient , intolerant of the peculiarities of ...
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... tastes and future life of his son Horace . The minister had been occupying his later years in pulling down his old ancestral house at Houghton ... taste one gentle refinement existed : this 18 Sir Robert's Love of Gardening . was the love.
... tastes and future life of his son Horace . The minister had been occupying his later years in pulling down his old ancestral house at Houghton ... taste one gentle refinement existed : this 18 Sir Robert's Love of Gardening . was the love.
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... taste , nor the pleasure of the inanimate world . My flatterers here are all mutes : the oaks , the beeches , the chestnuts , seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor . They cannot deceive ; they will not lie . I in ...
... taste , nor the pleasure of the inanimate world . My flatterers here are all mutes : the oaks , the beeches , the chestnuts , seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor . They cannot deceive ; they will not lie . I in ...
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... taste for gardening , partly to the early companionship of Gray , who delighted in those pursuits . Walpole's ... taste , erudition , science , art , were like a dead language to his common sense , his vulgar profligacy , and his ...
... taste for gardening , partly to the early companionship of Gray , who delighted in those pursuits . Walpole's ... taste , erudition , science , art , were like a dead language to his common sense , his vulgar profligacy , and his ...
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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.