The Wits and Beaux of Society, 2. kötetHarper, 1861 - 481 oldal |
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14. oldal
... looks like it , for the sailors are drinking Charles's health in the streets of Deal , on their knees ; " which , methinks , " says Pepys , " is a little too much ; " and " methinks " so , worthy Master Pepys , also . Then , how the ...
... looks like it , for the sailors are drinking Charles's health in the streets of Deal , on their knees ; " which , methinks , " says Pepys , " is a little too much ; " and " methinks " so , worthy Master Pepys , also . Then , how the ...
26. oldal
... look out of a window ; no one knows what sights may rivet or dis- please . Mistress Ireton was sitting at her window unconscious that any one with the hated and malignant name of " Villiers " was before her . After some unholy ...
... look out of a window ; no one knows what sights may rivet or dis- please . Mistress Ireton was sitting at her window unconscious that any one with the hated and malignant name of " Villiers " was before her . After some unholy ...
35. oldal
... looks and shape can do ; There must be wit and judgment too , Greatness of thought , and worth , which draw , From the whole world , respect and awe . She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind ...
... looks and shape can do ; There must be wit and judgment too , Greatness of thought , and worth , which draw , From the whole world , respect and awe . She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind ...
40. oldal
... look , a false countenance ; but very well - spoken , and dangerously insinuating . " Early in 1662 , the Duke of Buckingham had been engaged in practices against the court : he had disguised deep designs by affecting the mere man of ...
... look , a false countenance ; but very well - spoken , and dangerously insinuating . " Early in 1662 , the Duke of Buckingham had been engaged in practices against the court : he had disguised deep designs by affecting the mere man of ...
41. oldal
... look- ing - glass . How bold and pretty she looked in her undress , even Pepys - no very sound moralist , though a vast hypocrite -tells us : Nelly , " all unready " was " very pretty , prettier far than he thought . " But to see how ...
... look- ing - glass . How bold and pretty she looked in her undress , even Pepys - no very sound moralist , though a vast hypocrite -tells us : Nelly , " all unready " was " very pretty , prettier far than he thought . " But to see how ...
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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.