The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton, Band 2 |
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... Hours . - Let us not be Ungrateful GEORGE SELWYN . P. 1 A Love of Horrors . - Anecdotes of Selwyn's Mother . - Selwyn's College Days . - Orator Henley . Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak . - The Profession of a Wit . - The Thirst for Hazard ...
... Hours . - Let us not be Ungrateful GEORGE SELWYN . P. 1 A Love of Horrors . - Anecdotes of Selwyn's Mother . - Selwyn's College Days . - Orator Henley . Selwyn's Blasphemous Freak . - The Profession of a Wit . - The Thirst for Hazard ...
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... hour before the time . I met several on the birthday ( for I did not arrive time enough to make clothes ) , and they were dressed in all the colours of the rainbow . They seem to have said to themselves , twenty years ago , " Well , if ...
... hour before the time . I met several on the birthday ( for I did not arrive time enough to make clothes ) , and they were dressed in all the colours of the rainbow . They seem to have said to themselves , twenty years ago , " Well , if ...
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... hour , Of social pleasure , ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe , Smile without art , and win without a bribe . ' " Amid the coarse taste one gentle refinement existed this was the love of gardening , both ...
... hour , Of social pleasure , ill exchanged for power ; Seen him uncumbered with the venal tribe , Smile without art , and win without a bribe . ' " Amid the coarse taste one gentle refinement existed this was the love of gardening , both ...
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... hours of dangling , and no disgrace attending me , from sixty - seven years of age . Within doors we come a little nearer to real life , and admire , upon the almost speaking canvas , all the airs and graces the proudest ladies can ...
... hours of dangling , and no disgrace attending me , from sixty - seven years of age . Within doors we come a little nearer to real life , and admire , upon the almost speaking canvas , all the airs and graces the proudest ladies can ...
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... hours of the four and twenty ; but I will say no more of this . ' On the 29th of March , he again wrote to his friend in the following terms : - ' I begged your brothers to tell you what it is impossible for me to tell you . You share ...
... hours of the four and twenty ; but I will say no more of this . ' On the 29th of March , he again wrote to his friend in the following terms : - ' I begged your brothers to tell you what it is impossible for me to tell you . You share ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admired afterwards amusing anecdote asked Beau beautiful became brother Brummell Brummell's Bubb Dodington called character Charles club court cried daughter death debt delighted dine dinner doubt Drury Lane Duchess Duke Earl Edinburgh England English Eton fame famous fashion father favourite fool genius gentleman George II George Selwyn heart Holland honour Hook Hook's Horace Walpole Jeffrey John Bull Lady laugh less letters Linley lived London look Lord Cockburn Lord Holland Ludgershall Mackintosh manner married mind mother never once Oxford party passed perhaps political Pomfret poor prince replied Richard Brinsley Sheridan scarcely School for Scandal seems sent Sheridan Sherry Sir Robert society story Strawberry Hill Street Sydney Smith talents talked taste Theodore THEODORE EDWARD HOOK Theodore Hook thought tion told took turned Twickenham Walpole's wife wine wrote young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 104 - 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 70 - 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 228 - WUT, is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals. They are so imbued with metaphysics that they even make love metaphysically. I overheard a young lady of my acquaintance, at a dance in Edinburgh, exclaim, in a sudden pause of the music, ' What you say, my Lord, is very true of love in the aibstract, but' — here the fiddlers began fiddling furiously, and the rest was lost.
Seite 270 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased ; and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenlyj affecting not to mind him.
Seite 272 - 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 102 - 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 259 - 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 133 - If the thought is slow to come,' he would say, ' a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it' Those glasses of good wine, were, unfortunately, even more frequent than the good thoughts, many and merry as they were. His neglect of letters was a standing joke against him. He never took the trouble to open any that he did not expect, and often left sealed many that he was most anxious to read. He once appeared with his begging face at the Bank, humbly asking...