The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton, المجلد 2 |
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... Lord Dudley . - A Sharp Re- proof . Sydney's Classification of Society . - Last Strokes of Humour GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON , LORD MELCOMBE . 6 • p . 229 A Dinner - giving Lordly Poet . - A Misfortune for a Man of Society . - Brandenburgh ...
... Lord Dudley . - A Sharp Re- proof . Sydney's Classification of Society . - Last Strokes of Humour GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON , LORD MELCOMBE . 6 • p . 229 A Dinner - giving Lordly Poet . - A Misfortune for a Man of Society . - Brandenburgh ...
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... lord , but none but God Almighty can mak a gentleman . ' Sir Robert Walpole , afterwards minister to George II . , and eventually Lord Orford , belonged to an ancient family in Norfolk ; he was a third son , and was originally destined ...
... lord , but none but God Almighty can mak a gentleman . ' Sir Robert Walpole , afterwards minister to George II . , and eventually Lord Orford , belonged to an ancient family in Norfolk ; he was a third son , and was originally destined ...
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... Lord Chetwynd , the ranger of my park , sends me a brace of carp out of my canal ; I was told , thereupon , that I must give five guineas to Lord Chetwynd's porter for bringing me my own fish , out of my own canal , in my own park ...
... Lord Chetwynd , the ranger of my park , sends me a brace of carp out of my canal ; I was told , thereupon , that I must give five guineas to Lord Chetwynd's porter for bringing me my own fish , out of my own canal , in my own park ...
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... Lord Hertford and Henry Conway , Walpole's cousins , were also his school- fellows ; and for them he evinced throughout his long life a warm regard . William Pitt , Lord Chatham - chiefly re- membered at Eton for having been flogged for ...
... Lord Hertford and Henry Conway , Walpole's cousins , were also his school- fellows ; and for them he evinced throughout his long life a warm regard . William Pitt , Lord Chatham - chiefly re- membered at Eton for having been flogged for ...
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... Lord Jeffreys who , in a spirit of braggadocia , stopped the funeral of Dryden on its way to Westminster , promising a more splendid procession than the poor , humble cortège - a boast which he never fulfilled . Lady Sophia Fermor , the ...
... Lord Jeffreys who , in a spirit of braggadocia , stopped the funeral of Dryden on its way to Westminster , promising a more splendid procession than the poor , humble cortège - a boast which he never fulfilled . Lady Sophia Fermor , the ...
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الصفحة 104 - He is only willing to believe ; I do believe. The evidence is enough for me, though not for his great mind. What will not fill a quart bottle will fill a pint bottle. I am filled with belief.' 'Are you," said Colman, 'then cork it up.
الصفحة 70 - 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 228 - WUT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals. They are so imbued with metaphysics that they even make love metaphysically. I overheard a young lady of my acquaintance, at a dance in Edinburgh, exclaim, in a sudden pause of the music, ' What you say, my Lord, is very true of love in the aibstract, but' — here the fiddlers began fiddling furiously, and the rest was lost.
الصفحة 270 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
الصفحة 272 - 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 102 - 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 259 - 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 133 - If the thought is slow to come,' he would say, ' a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it' Those glasses of good wine, were, unfortunately, even more frequent than the good thoughts, many and merry as they were. His neglect of letters was a standing joke against him. He never took the trouble to open any that he did not expect, and often left sealed many that he was most anxious to read. He once appeared with his begging face at the Bank, humbly asking...