The Wits and Beaux of Society, 2. kötetHarper, 1861 - 481 oldal |
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vii. oldal
... Wife . - The sham Widow.- Ways and Means . - Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemaine . - Quarrels with the King . - The Beau's second Marriage . — The last Days of Fops and Beaux ... OF CERTAIN CLUBS AND CLUB - WITS UNDER ANNE . 85 The ...
... Wife . - The sham Widow.- Ways and Means . - Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemaine . - Quarrels with the King . - The Beau's second Marriage . — The last Days of Fops and Beaux ... OF CERTAIN CLUBS AND CLUB - WITS UNDER ANNE . 85 The ...
viii. oldal
... Wife will live forever . " - Petits Soupers . - Scarron's last Moments . - A Lesson for gay and grave 227 FRANCOIS , DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT AND THE DUC DE SAINT - SIMON . Rank and Good - breeding . The Hotel de Rochefoucault . Racine ...
... Wife will live forever . " - Petits Soupers . - Scarron's last Moments . - A Lesson for gay and grave 227 FRANCOIS , DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT AND THE DUC DE SAINT - SIMON . Rank and Good - breeding . The Hotel de Rochefoucault . Racine ...
ix. oldal
... Wife . - Debts of Honor . Drury Lane burned . - The Owner's Serenity . - Misfortunes never come singly . — The Whitbread Quarrel . - Ruined , undone , and almost forsaken . - The dead Man arrested .. The Stories fixed on Sheridan ...
... Wife . - Debts of Honor . Drury Lane burned . - The Owner's Serenity . - Misfortunes never come singly . — The Whitbread Quarrel . - Ruined , undone , and almost forsaken . - The dead Man arrested .. The Stories fixed on Sheridan ...
15. oldal
... wife , of fifteen , was glad with her husband to take up an abode in the house of a relative , Sir Edward Montagu , afterward Earl of Sandwich , the " my lord " under whose shadow Samuel Pepys dwelt in reverence . By this nobleman's ...
... wife , of fifteen , was glad with her husband to take up an abode in the house of a relative , Sir Edward Montagu , afterward Earl of Sandwich , the " my lord " under whose shadow Samuel Pepys dwelt in reverence . By this nobleman's ...
21. oldal
... wife's kitchen ; * and that serving - woman became the leader of fash- * Sir George Villiers's second wife was Mary , daughter of Antony Beau- mont , Esq . , of Glenfield ( Nichols ' Leicestershire , iii . 193 ) , who was son of Wm ...
... wife's kitchen ; * and that serving - woman became the leader of fash- * Sir George Villiers's second wife was Mary , daughter of Antony Beau- mont , Esq . , of Glenfield ( Nichols ' Leicestershire , iii . 193 ) , who was son of Wm ...
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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.