The Wits and Beaus of Society, Band 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... Debts of Ho- nour . - Drury Lane Burnt . - The Owner's Serenity . - Misfortunes never come Singly . The Whitbread Quarrel . - Ruined . - Undone and almost Forsaken . -The Dead Man Arrested . - The Stories fixed on Sheridan . - Extempore ...
... Debts of Ho- nour . - Drury Lane Burnt . - The Owner's Serenity . - Misfortunes never come Singly . The Whitbread Quarrel . - Ruined . - Undone and almost Forsaken . -The Dead Man Arrested . - The Stories fixed on Sheridan . - Extempore ...
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... debt , and the elder brother of Horace , the second Lord Orford , proposed , on entering it again , after keeping it closed for some time , to enter upon ' new , and then very un- known economy , for which there was great need : ' thus ...
... debt , and the elder brother of Horace , the second Lord Orford , proposed , on entering it again , after keeping it closed for some time , to enter upon ' new , and then very un- known economy , for which there was great need : ' thus ...
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... debt . He who was so particular , too , as to the number of those who were admitted to see his house he who stipulated that four persons only should compose a party , and one party alone be shown over each day - how would he have borne ...
... debt . He who was so particular , too , as to the number of those who were admitted to see his house he who stipulated that four persons only should compose a party , and one party alone be shown over each day - how would he have borne ...
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... debts , mortgages , sales , pillage , villainy , waste , folly , and madness . The nettles and brambles in the park were up to his shoulders ; horses had been turned into the garden , and banditti lodged in every cottage . The ...
... debts , mortgages , sales , pillage , villainy , waste , folly , and madness . The nettles and brambles in the park were up to his shoulders ; horses had been turned into the garden , and banditti lodged in every cottage . The ...
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... debt , and , added to the bequest , a series of lawsuits threatened to break down all remaining comfort in the mind of the uncle , who had already suffered so much on the young man's account . Horace Walpole disdained the honours which ...
... debt , and , added to the bequest , a series of lawsuits threatened to break down all remaining comfort in the mind of the uncle , who had already suffered so much on the young man's account . Horace Walpole disdained the honours which ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admired afterwards amusing anecdote asked Beau beautiful became brother Brummell Bubb Dodington called character Charles club court cried daughter death debt delighted dinner dress Drury Lane Duchess Duke Earl Edinburgh England Eton fame famous fashion father fool genius gentleman George II George Selwyn heart Holland honour Hook Hook's Horace Walpole Houghton Jeffrey king Lady laugh Leicester House letters Linley lived London look Lord Cockburn Lord Hervey Lord Holland Ludgershall Mackintosh manner married mind mother never night once Oxford party passed perhaps political Pomfret poor prince Prince of Wales replied ridicule scarcely School for Scandal seems sent Sheridan Sir Robert society spirit story Strawberry Hill Street Sydney Smith talents talked taste Theodore Theodore Hook thought told took Twickenham vulgar Wales Walpole's wife wine wonderful wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.