The Wits and Beaux of Society, 2. kötetHarper, 1861 - 481 oldal |
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... English , is no medieval personage : the aristocracy of the present day rank among his immediate descendants : he is a creature of a modern and an artificial age ; and with his career are mingled many features of civilized life ...
... English , is no medieval personage : the aristocracy of the present day rank among his immediate descendants : he is a creature of a modern and an artificial age ; and with his career are mingled many features of civilized life ...
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... English- men would have spared the youth , and respected the gallantry of the free young soldier , who , planting himself against an oak - tree which grew in the road , refused to ask for quarter , but defended himself against several ...
... English- men would have spared the youth , and respected the gallantry of the free young soldier , who , planting himself against an oak - tree which grew in the road , refused to ask for quarter , but defended himself against several ...
19. oldal
... English Cavaliers and the Scotch Highlanders seconded the monarch's valiant onslaught on Cromwell's horse , whose invincible Life Guards were al- most driven back by the shock . But they were not seconded ; Charles II . had his horse ...
... English Cavaliers and the Scotch Highlanders seconded the monarch's valiant onslaught on Cromwell's horse , whose invincible Life Guards were al- most driven back by the shock . But they were not seconded ; Charles II . had his horse ...
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... besides the £ 200,000 which he was to spend of his own rev- enue , to guard the sea , above £ 5,000,000 , and odd £ 100,000 ; which is a most prodigious sum . Sir H. Cholmly , as a true A CHANGE . 43 English gentleman , do decry the.
... besides the £ 200,000 which he was to spend of his own rev- enue , to guard the sea , above £ 5,000,000 , and odd £ 100,000 ; which is a most prodigious sum . Sir H. Cholmly , as a true A CHANGE . 43 English gentleman , do decry the.
43. oldal
Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton. A CHANGE . 43 English gentleman , do decry the king's expenses of his privy purse , which in King James's time did not rise to above £ 5000 a year , and in King Charles's to £ 10,000 , do now cost us ...
Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton. A CHANGE . 43 English gentleman , do decry the king's expenses of his privy purse , which in King James's time did not rise to above £ 5000 a year , and in King Charles's to £ 10,000 , do now cost us ...
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218. oldal - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
16. oldal - 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
217. oldal - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
91. oldal - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
25. oldal - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
25. oldal - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
351. oldal - 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;
217. oldal - 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...
106. oldal - 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.
330. oldal - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair; None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair.