The Wits and Beaux of Society, Band 2J.W. Jarvis & son, 1890 |
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... feel contempt for the anony- inous writer of that amusing little book . After a companionship of four years , Gray , nevertheless , returned to London . He had been educated with the expect IO A Dreary Doom . ation of being a barrister.
... feel contempt for the anony- inous writer of that amusing little book . After a companionship of four years , Gray , nevertheless , returned to London . He had been educated with the expect IO A Dreary Doom . ation of being a barrister.
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... amusing to find the son getting Dr. Newton to write him a contrite and respect- ful letter to the angry parent , to liquidate the ' small accounts ' accumulated in London and Oxford as early as 1740. Three years later we find him in ...
... amusing to find the son getting Dr. Newton to write him a contrite and respect- ful letter to the angry parent , to liquidate the ' small accounts ' accumulated in London and Oxford as early as 1740. Three years later we find him in ...
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... amused both parties with his wit , and by snoring in unison with Lord North . This must have been trying to Mr. Speaker Cornwall , who was longing , no doubt , to snore also , and dared not . He was probably the only Speaker who ...
... amused both parties with his wit , and by snoring in unison with Lord North . This must have been trying to Mr. Speaker Cornwall , who was longing , no doubt , to snore also , and dared not . He was probably the only Speaker who ...
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... amusing man of his day , and that was all the part he had to play . No real wit ever hopes to talk for posterity ; and written wit is of a very different character to the more sparkling , if less solid , creations of a moment . We have ...
... amusing man of his day , and that was all the part he had to play . No real wit ever hopes to talk for posterity ; and written wit is of a very different character to the more sparkling , if less solid , creations of a moment . We have ...
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... amusing enough , and clever enough , though it betrayed repeatedly the youthfulness of its authors ; but less so their next attempt , a weekly periodical , to be called ' Hernan's Miscellany , ' of which Sheridan wrote , or was to write ...
... amusing enough , and clever enough , though it betrayed repeatedly the youthfulness of its authors ; but less so their next attempt , a weekly periodical , to be called ' Hernan's Miscellany , ' of which Sheridan wrote , or was to write ...
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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.