The Wits and Beaus of Society, Band 2Worthington Company, 1890 |
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... down the dusty roads from London to visit the recluse at Strawberry : but Horace wanted them not , for he had neighbours . In his youth he had owned for his playfellow the ever witty , the pre ' A Dirty Little Thing ? 33 cocious , the.
... down the dusty roads from London to visit the recluse at Strawberry : but Horace wanted them not , for he had neighbours . In his youth he had owned for his playfellow the ever witty , the pre ' A Dirty Little Thing ? 33 cocious , the.
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... wanted a tree to be felled , Colomb opposed it , and the master yielded . Servants , in those days , were intrinsically the same as in ours , but they differed in The old familiarity had not gone out , but existed as it still does among ...
... wanted a tree to be felled , Colomb opposed it , and the master yielded . Servants , in those days , were intrinsically the same as in ours , but they differed in The old familiarity had not gone out , but existed as it still does among ...
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... wanted the manner of the man to make it so popular , for , as we read it , it is often rather mild . To string a list of them together : - Lady Coventry showed him her new dress all covered with spangles as large as shillings . ' Bless ...
... wanted the manner of the man to make it so popular , for , as we read it , it is often rather mild . To string a list of them together : - Lady Coventry showed him her new dress all covered with spangles as large as shillings . ' Bless ...
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... . But it matters little what we in the present day may think of Selwyn's wit , for conversation is spoiled by bottling , and should be drawn fresh when wanted . Selwyn's companions — all men 78 Selwyn's Real Character . of wit , more or.
... . But it matters little what we in the present day may think of Selwyn's wit , for conversation is spoiled by bottling , and should be drawn fresh when wanted . Selwyn's companions — all men 78 Selwyn's Real Character . of wit , more or.
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... little companion and only pure friend was taken away from him . His love for the child was well known in London society ; and of it did Sheridan's friends take advantage , when they wanted His later Days and Death . 81 to get Selwyn.
... little companion and only pure friend was taken away from him . His love for the child was well known in London society ; and of it did Sheridan's friends take advantage , when they wanted His later Days and Death . 81 to get Selwyn.
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
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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.