A Satirical View of LondonR. Dutton, 1809 - 216 Seiten |
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... daughters of dissipation . Assignations , seduction , adultery , and elopements , engage the atten- tion of the voluptuous throng ; and were a temple erect- ed in honour of Cytherea , those numerous votaries who worship her in private ...
... daughters of dissipation . Assignations , seduction , adultery , and elopements , engage the atten- tion of the voluptuous throng ; and were a temple erect- ed in honour of Cytherea , those numerous votaries who worship her in private ...
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... daughters of the rich citizens annually visit the watering places . There , freed from the restraints of domestic propriety , they boldly launch into the stream of high life ; where steered by passion , they are often shipwrecked on the ...
... daughters of the rich citizens annually visit the watering places . There , freed from the restraints of domestic propriety , they boldly launch into the stream of high life ; where steered by passion , they are often shipwrecked on the ...
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... daughters sometimes visit the theatres , where they make a rapid progress in refine- ment . Wonderful indeed must be the improvement of the youthful females who frequent those elegant tem- ples of the Graces , where nonsense is so often ...
... daughters sometimes visit the theatres , where they make a rapid progress in refine- ment . Wonderful indeed must be the improvement of the youthful females who frequent those elegant tem- ples of the Graces , where nonsense is so often ...
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... daughter , a sister , a wife , and a mother ; all these may be performed , thongh a lady should not be the very first woman at an opera or an assembly . " These precepts , however just , are inimical to the pursuits and sentiments of ...
... daughter , a sister , a wife , and a mother ; all these may be performed , thongh a lady should not be the very first woman at an opera or an assembly . " These precepts , however just , are inimical to the pursuits and sentiments of ...
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... daughters sauntering in the public walks , half dressed , and gazing at every man that passed . The observant eye can easily discern affectation in their deportment , and the studied adjust ment of their light flowing robes . These ...
... daughters sauntering in the public walks , half dressed , and gazing at every man that passed . The observant eye can easily discern affectation in their deportment , and the studied adjust ment of their light flowing robes . These ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affectation allure amiable amusements appear atheists Balm of Gilead beauty behold bloom Brodum censure character charms Christianity classes concubinage Cordial daugh daughters deist delight depravity dissipation doubtless dress effeminacy elegant Eliza excellent eyes fair fashion favourite feel Feignlove female philosophers follies French genius Goddess grace gratify happiness heart honour human ideas Illuminati immorality indulgence infidelity ingenious Irish Irish nobility irreligion justice Kotzebue licentiousness London lover luxury mankind manners Marischal College ment merchants metics metropolis mind modern modesty modish moralist morals nation natural nobility North Briton observation opulent ornament passions pleasure poet precepts present pride Quack quack doctors quackery racter refinement reflect religion render resident in London respect ridiculous romances sage satire seduction smile society sophisms Sophistry sublime success superior taste Temple theatres tinctured tion truth vice virtue virtuous Voltaire votaries woman writers youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 201 - Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage: Such plays alone should win a British ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear.
Seite 33 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Seite 102 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Seite 193 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Seite 99 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Seite 100 - Behold the picture ! Is it like ? —Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Seite 125 - And strike to dust the imperial towers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ?
Seite 11 - Your prudent grand-mammas, ye modern belles, Content with Bristol, Bath, and Tunbridge Wells, When health required it would consent to roam, Else more attached to pleasures found at home. But now alike, gay widow, virgin, wife, Ingenious to diversify dull life, In coaches, chaises, caravans, and hoys, Fly to the coast for daily, nightly joys, And all, impatient of dry land, agree With one consent to rush into the sea.
Seite 202 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 18 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...