The Wits and Beaux of Society, Band 2J.W. Jarvis & son, 1890 |
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... HOOK . The Greatest of Modern Wits . - What Coleridge said of Hook . - Hook's Family . -Redeeming Points . - Versatility . - Varieties of Hoaxing .-- The Black- wafered Horse . - The Berners Street Hoax . - Success of the Scheme .-- The ...
... HOOK . The Greatest of Modern Wits . - What Coleridge said of Hook . - Hook's Family . -Redeeming Points . - Versatility . - Varieties of Hoaxing .-- The Black- wafered Horse . - The Berners Street Hoax . - Success of the Scheme .-- The ...
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... FAMOUS “ LITERARY CLUB " .. 76 94 A TREASURE FOR A LADY - SHERIDAN AND THE LAWYER THEODORE HOOK'S ENGINEERING FROLIC SYDNEY SMITH'S WITTY ANSWER TO THE OLD PARISH 112 176 CLERK .. .. 214 - HORACE WALPOLE . - The Commoners of England .
... FAMOUS “ LITERARY CLUB " .. 76 94 A TREASURE FOR A LADY - SHERIDAN AND THE LAWYER THEODORE HOOK'S ENGINEERING FROLIC SYDNEY SMITH'S WITTY ANSWER TO THE OLD PARISH 112 176 CLERK .. .. 214 - HORACE WALPOLE . - The Commoners of England .
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... Hook . Calmly , almost sanctimoniously , he uttered those neat and telling sayings which the next day passed over Eng- land as ' Selwyn's last . ' Walpole describes his manner admir- ably his eyes turned up , his mouth set primly , a ...
... Hook . Calmly , almost sanctimoniously , he uttered those neat and telling sayings which the next day passed over Eng- land as ' Selwyn's last . ' Walpole describes his manner admir- ably his eyes turned up , his mouth set primly , a ...
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... hook , this nightin- gale has drawn out through mine ears not my brain only , but my heart also . ' Then among other of her devotees were Norris , the singer , and Mr. Watts , a rich gentleman - commoner , who had also met her at Oxford ...
... hook , this nightin- gale has drawn out through mine ears not my brain only , but my heart also . ' Then among other of her devotees were Norris , the singer , and Mr. Watts , a rich gentleman - commoner , who had also met her at Oxford ...
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... his doubtful reputation ! Peace then to the coat - thinker . Peace to all - to the worst . Let us look within and not judge . It is enough that we are not tried in the same balance . I THEODORE EDWARD HOOK . The Greatest of Modern Wits .
... his doubtful reputation ! Peace then to the coat - thinker . Peace to all - to the worst . Let us look within and not judge . It is enough that we are not tried in the same balance . I THEODORE EDWARD HOOK . The Greatest of Modern Wits .
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Seite 93 - Islands,' and of his coming away ' willing to believe the second sight,' which seemed to excite some ridicule. I was then so impressed with the truth of many of the stories of which I had been told, that I avowed my conviction, saying '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.
Seite 2 - This is a strange country!" said his majesty: " the first morning after my arrival at St. James's, I looked out of the window, and saw a park with walks, a canal, &c. which they told me were mine. The next day lord Chetwynd, the ranger of my park, sent me a fine brace of carp out of my canal ; and I was told I must give five guineas to lord Chetwynd's servant for bringing me my own carp out of my own canal in my own park...
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 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. How happy should I have been to have had a kingdom only for the pleasure of being driven from it, and living disguised in an humble vale ! As I got further into Virgil and Clelia...
Seite 64 - All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy Son neglects the Laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
Seite 95 - You see what noble ambition will make a man attempt. That den is not yet opened, consequently I have not been there; so, for the present I am clear upon that score.
Seite 102 - All that he had ever heard — all that he had ever read — when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.