Eighteenth Century Vignettes: Second seriesChatto & Windus, 1894 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... master has laboriously to pick them to pieces again . Still , he has a good heart , for he buys a linnet for Mrs. Dingley , at a personal sacrifice of sixpence , and in direct opposition to his master's advice . ' I laid fairly before ...
... master has laboriously to pick them to pieces again . Still , he has a good heart , for he buys a linnet for Mrs. Dingley , at a personal sacrifice of sixpence , and in direct opposition to his master's advice . ' I laid fairly before ...
Pagina 13
... master is afraid to give him his new clothes , though he has not the heart to with- hold them . I wish MD were here to entreat for him - just here at the bed's side . ' Then there . is a vivid little study of Swift bathing in the Thames ...
... master is afraid to give him his new clothes , though he has not the heart to with- hold them . I wish MD were here to entreat for him - just here at the bed's side . ' Then there . is a vivid little study of Swift bathing in the Thames ...
Pagina 14
... master . There is one person , however , for ampler de- tails respecting whom one would willingly sur- render the entire ' Patrickiad , ' and that is the lady in whose interest the Journal was written , since Mrs. Rebecca Dingley ...
... master . There is one person , however , for ampler de- tails respecting whom one would willingly sur- render the entire ' Patrickiad , ' and that is the lady in whose interest the Journal was written , since Mrs. Rebecca Dingley ...
Pagina 28
... Master's House his Closet ought to be , Where all are Secrets which you hear or see , ' he says , adding with undeniable but superfluous truth : ' For he who indiscreetly babbles small Things May be suspected of the same in all Things ...
... Master's House his Closet ought to be , Where all are Secrets which you hear or see , ' he says , adding with undeniable but superfluous truth : ' For he who indiscreetly babbles small Things May be suspected of the same in all Things ...
Pagina 30
... Masters and Mistresses , make up , he affirms , the chief re- sources of his ' Brother Skips . ' Towards the close of the book he asks incidentally whether future ages will rank his name with that of Prior . The question is put to ...
... Masters and Mistresses , make up , he affirms , the chief re- sources of his ' Brother Skips . ' Towards the close of the book he asks incidentally whether future ages will rank his name with that of Prior . The question is put to ...
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Populaire passages
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.