Eighteenth Century Vignettes: Second seriesChatto & Windus, 1894 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina 69
... for title , The House at Fulham in which Richardson wrote Cla- . The building represented is , however , entirely different from that at North End . spondents that he was most fortunate . Henry Fielding's sisters Richardson at Home . 69.
... for title , The House at Fulham in which Richardson wrote Cla- . The building represented is , however , entirely different from that at North End . spondents that he was most fortunate . Henry Fielding's sisters Richardson at Home . 69.
Pagina 70
Second series Austin Dobson. spondents that he was most fortunate . Henry Fielding's sisters , Sally and Patty , had something of their brother's genius ; the two Miss Colliers , daughters of Arthur Collier , the metaphysician , were ...
Second series Austin Dobson. spondents that he was most fortunate . Henry Fielding's sisters , Sally and Patty , had something of their brother's genius ; the two Miss Colliers , daughters of Arthur Collier , the metaphysician , were ...
Pagina 82
... fortunate enough to find a life - long protector . In his way Edward Walpole was a virtuoso and con- noisseur , and he recommended Roubillac to Henry Cheere , whose stone - yard , with its once popular leaden figures for gardens , is ...
... fortunate enough to find a life - long protector . In his way Edward Walpole was a virtuoso and con- noisseur , and he recommended Roubillac to Henry Cheere , whose stone - yard , with its once popular leaden figures for gardens , is ...
Pagina 129
... fortunate enough to possess a specimen from his library . It is a copy of Johannes Veenhusius his edition of Pliny's Letters ( Lugd . Batav . 1669 , 8vo ) , whole bound in old red morocco with ' LE . DUC . DE . NIVERNOIS . ' on the side ...
... fortunate enough to possess a specimen from his library . It is a copy of Johannes Veenhusius his edition of Pliny's Letters ( Lugd . Batav . 1669 , 8vo ) , whole bound in old red morocco with ' LE . DUC . DE . NIVERNOIS . ' on the side ...
Pagina 133
... fortunate foundling who gives his name to the volumes , although — to quote a contemporary critic - he makes almost as inconsiderable a figure in the work as the dog does in the history of Tobit . ' But it is not our present intention ...
... fortunate foundling who gives his name to the volumes , although — to quote a contemporary critic - he makes almost as inconsiderable a figure in the work as the dog does in the history of Tobit . ' But it is not our present intention ...
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admirable afterwards appeared Arch Argyll artist Bath beautiful Bedford Berlin Boswell Bramble Bramble's brother called Captain Chodowiecki Clarissa Cleone copy Court Covent Garden daughter death described Dodsley Dodsley's doubt dress Duchess Duchess of Grafton Duke Duke's Earl England engravings Esther Johnson famous father favourite figure folio footmen fortunate French garden Garrick gentleman guineas hand Hogarth honour Horace Walpole Humphry Clinker Johnson Journal Lady Mary Coke later letters literary London look Lord Bute Lord Chesterfield Madame Madame de Sévigné master Melford ment Miss never Nivernais once painted Payne person picture poet politics Pope portrait present Prince Princess printed probably racter Ranelagh record Richardson Roger Payne Roubillac Samuel Johnson says scarcely seems side Silas sketch Smollett speaking Stella story Street Swift Thomas tion Told Traineau Tully's Head Vauxhall verses visited volume write wrote young
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Pagina 272 - If you had never seen it I would make you a most pompous description of it, and tell you how the floor is all of beaten princes—that you can't set your foot without treading on a Prince of Wales or Duke of Cumberland.
Pagina 25 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Pagina 19 - This day, being Sunday, January 28, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night, a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend that I, or perhaps any other person, was ever blessed with.
Pagina 71 - May the hatred of all the young, beautiful, and virtuous for ever be your portion, and may your eyes never behold anything but age and deformity ! May you meet with applause only from envious old maids, surly bachelors, and tyrannical parents; may you be doomed to the company of such ! and after death may their ugly souls haunt you ! " Now make Lovelace and Clarissa unhappy if you dare...
Pagina 158 - ... habitable islands, some of them stocked with deer, and all of them covered with wood; containing immense quantities of delicious fish, salmon, pike, trout, perch, flounders, eels, and powans, the last a delicate kind of fresh-water herring peculiar to this lake; and finally communicating with the sea, by sending off the Leven, through which all those species (except the powan) make their exit and entrance occasionally?
Pagina 92 - The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Pagina 143 - London is literally new to me ; new in its streets, houses, and even in its situation : as the Irishman said, " London is now gone out of town." What I left open fields, producing hay and corn, I now find covered with. streets, and squares, and palaces, and churches. I am credibly informed, that, in the space of seven years, eleven thousand new houses have been built in one quarter of Westminster, exclusive of what is daily added to other parts of this unwieldy metropolis.
Pagina 277 - In strains more exalted the salt-box shall join, And clattering and battering and clapping combine ; With a rap and a tap, while the hollow side sounds. Up and down leaps the flap, and with rattling rebounds '." . I mentioned the periodical paper called
Pagina 145 - Every clerk, apprentice, and even waiter of a tavern or coffee-house, maintains a gelding by himself, or in partnership, and assumes the air and apparel of a petitmaitre. The gayest places of public entertainment are filled with fashionable figures, which, upon inquiry, will be found to be journeymen-tailors, serving-men, and abigails, disguised like their betters.