Almack's: A Novel ...Saunders and Otley, 1826 - 413 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 61 - Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
الصفحة 133 - Life. 233 woman happy. Killarney has been years abroad, but he is soon expected home. Report says he has some woman of fashion travelling with him as his mistress, to whom he is entirely devoted. He went abroad after a crim. con. affair; he was unable to pay the damages, and he refused to marry the victim of his perfidy. But, hark ! I hear these men again ; let us avoid them. How late we have stayed out by the light of the moon ! there is the dressing-bell ;' and her ladyship turned into the vestibule,...
الصفحة 260 - What numbers, here, would, into fame advance Conscious of merit, in the coxcomb's dance ; The tavern ! park ! assembly ! mask ! and play ! Those dear destroyers of the tedious day ! That wheel of fops ! that saunter of the town ! Call it diversion, and the pill goes down.
الصفحة 305 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
الصفحة 133 - I read that beautiful play this morning; what is the parody I have heard you repeat on those lines. Louisa ?" " Je vais donner une heure au soin de ma toilette, Et le reste du jour sera tout a Finette.
الصفحة 307 - ... of tempers and dispositions, as well as how to make use of all her acquaintances in some way or other. If she could not persuade, she could bully, which was often the easiest of the two. In short, Lady Hauton was the fashion, and, moreover, the leader of the ladies patronesses, the bold spirit who was foremost both in council and in action.
الصفحة 222 - Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land : From courts, to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming bless'd, they grow to what they seem.
الصفحة 209 - Almack's is a system of tyranny," said Lady Tresilian, " which would never be submitted to in any country but one of such complete freedom that people are at liberty to make fools of themselves. No government would ever have had the effrontery to suppose that people would, on their knees, crave permission to pay their money to a junto, selfelected, whose power -exists but by courtesy ; who make laws, and enforce them too, without any sort of right.
الصفحة 222 - Far be from me or my friends such frigid philosophy, as can approach unmoved those scenes of fashion where beauty and ton assert their proud pre-eminence : that belle must be devoid of taste or feeling, whose vivacity will not become more sparkling as she whirls rapidly down Regent Street, or whose eyes will not flash with greater brilliancy when she first views the countless throngs of charming loungers in fool's fair. " And you, ye knockers, that with brazen throat The welcome visitor's approach...
الصفحة 119 - Almack's, she will do you credit, and you know que je m'y connois. There is also a certain Colonel Montague here^ brother to this same ambassadress : all the world seem to adore him ; and so, of course, I cut the man, and hate him. He is a sort of person I make a rule to avoid, who always appears to look above you. " My uncle Glenmore, the stern patriot, the man of the people, the political hero, — thinks of nothing but his little wife and his expected heir ; — and what is more, I do not wonder...