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... tion , little more than a century ago - when we had our famed Augustan age of Addisons and Popes , - when laced coats , and flowing wigs , and silver buckles , ventured into the streets , and the beau prided himself on " The nice ...
... tion , little more than a century ago - when we had our famed Augustan age of Addisons and Popes , - when laced coats , and flowing wigs , and silver buckles , ventured into the streets , and the beau prided himself on " The nice ...
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... tion . As the drunkenness went on increasing , the taste for music went on diminishing . In the next century , the Tatler ' writes , " In Italy nothing is more frequent than to hear a cobbler working to an opera tune ; but , on the ...
... tion . As the drunkenness went on increasing , the taste for music went on diminishing . In the next century , the Tatler ' writes , " In Italy nothing is more frequent than to hear a cobbler working to an opera tune ; but , on the ...
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... tion of the theatres at that period , for boxes , pit , and.gallery constituted one mob . There was a calm awhile , but in 1755 Walpole writes : " England * Horace Walpole to Mann . + Horace Walpole to Mann , March 11 , 1748 . seems ...
... tion of the theatres at that period , for boxes , pit , and.gallery constituted one mob . There was a calm awhile , but in 1755 Walpole writes : " England * Horace Walpole to Mann . + Horace Walpole to Mann , March 11 , 1748 . seems ...
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... tion . The reign of ombre , whose chances and intrigues interested the great quite as much as the accidents and plots of the reign of Anne , was sup- planted by the new dynasty of whist ; and then whist yielded to the more gambling ...
... tion . The reign of ombre , whose chances and intrigues interested the great quite as much as the accidents and plots of the reign of Anne , was sup- planted by the new dynasty of whist ; and then whist yielded to the more gambling ...
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... tion of a visit to the den of the ghost ! -- " We set out from the opera , changed our clothes at North- umberland House , the Duke of York , Lady North- umberland , Lady Mary Coke , Lord Hertford , and I , all in one hackney - coach ...
... tion of a visit to the den of the ghost ! -- " We set out from the opera , changed our clothes at North- umberland House , the Duke of York , Lady North- umberland , Lady Mary Coke , Lord Hertford , and I , all in one hackney - coach ...
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Seite 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
Seite 136 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
Seite 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go ; He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries Fate and Physic in his eye...
Seite 85 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Seite 79 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Seite 14 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
Seite 54 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
Seite 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
Seite 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...