The Wits and Beaux of Society, Band 1G. Routledge and Sons, 1871 - 508 Seiten |
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... CONGREVE . p . 91 When and where was he born ? -The Middle Temple . - Congreve finds his Vocation . - Verses to Queen Mary . - The Tennis - court Theatre . - Congreve abandons the Drama . - Jeremy Collier . - The Immorality of the Stage ...
... CONGREVE . p . 91 When and where was he born ? -The Middle Temple . - Congreve finds his Vocation . - Verses to Queen Mary . - The Tennis - court Theatre . - Congreve abandons the Drama . - Jeremy Collier . - The Immorality of the Stage ...
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... Congreve , who affected to be the Beau as well as the Wit ; Lord Hervey , more of the courtier than the Beau - a Wit by inheritance - a peer , assisted into a pre - eminent position by royal preference , and consequent prestige ; and ...
... Congreve , who affected to be the Beau as well as the Wit ; Lord Hervey , more of the courtier than the Beau - a Wit by inheritance - a peer , assisted into a pre - eminent position by royal preference , and consequent prestige ; and ...
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... Congreve , Vanbrugh , Garth , and many another famous wit . Another celebrated toast of the Kit - kat , mentioned by Walpole , was Lady Molyneux , who , he says , died smoking a pipe . This club was no less celebrated for its portraits ...
... Congreve , Vanbrugh , Garth , and many another famous wit . Another celebrated toast of the Kit - kat , mentioned by Walpole , was Lady Molyneux , who , he says , died smoking a pipe . This club was no less celebrated for its portraits ...
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... Congreve . Another dramatist , whose name seems to be inseparable from Congreve's , was that mixture of bad and good taste- Vanbrugh . The author of ' The Relapse , ' the most licentious . play ever acted ; -the builder of Blenheim ...
... Congreve . Another dramatist , whose name seems to be inseparable from Congreve's , was that mixture of bad and good taste- Vanbrugh . The author of ' The Relapse , ' the most licentious . play ever acted ; -the builder of Blenheim ...
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... Congreve in the manage- ment of the Haymarket , which he himself built . George I. made him Comptroller - general of the royal works . He had even an experience of the Bastille , where he was confined for sketching fortifications in ...
... Congreve in the manage- ment of the Haymarket , which he himself built . George I. made him Comptroller - general of the royal works . He had even an experience of the Bastille , where he was confined for sketching fortifications in ...
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Seite 38 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Seite 223 - When upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Seite 496 - 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 sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, sir, he was irresistible.
Seite 196 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Seite 223 - Seven years, my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Seite 356 - 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 223 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was over-powered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
Seite 6 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 459 - 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 104 - To all you ladies now on land, We men at sea indite ; But first would have you understand How hard it is to write : The muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you.