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Pagina xxvi
... verse by George Ellis- Short notice of that gentleman - The Duchess of Devonshire's lines on a bust of Charles James Fox - Her verses from a blind man to his wife - Death of her Grace - Anecdote of Lady Bessborough - Visit to the vault ...
... verse by George Ellis- Short notice of that gentleman - The Duchess of Devonshire's lines on a bust of Charles James Fox - Her verses from a blind man to his wife - Death of her Grace - Anecdote of Lady Bessborough - Visit to the vault ...
Pagina xxvii
... verses on her child - An anecdote from the Clubs of London - A rencontre between Sheridan and Brummell - Sheridan's fugitive poetry -Lines addressed to the Countess of Bessborough - Tom Sheridan - The loss of the Saldanha Frigate - His ...
... verses on her child - An anecdote from the Clubs of London - A rencontre between Sheridan and Brummell - Sheridan's fugitive poetry -Lines addressed to the Countess of Bessborough - Tom Sheridan - The loss of the Saldanha Frigate - His ...
Pagina xxviii
... verse - The company present - Colonel Armstrong - The Hon- ourable William Spencer - Monk Lewis - Kangaroo Cooke- Lady Anne Culling Smith - Miss Fitzroy - Colonel de Lancey Barclay - Brummell - Le Chevalier Cainea - Lord Erskine's ...
... verse - The company present - Colonel Armstrong - The Hon- ourable William Spencer - Monk Lewis - Kangaroo Cooke- Lady Anne Culling Smith - Miss Fitzroy - Colonel de Lancey Barclay - Brummell - Le Chevalier Cainea - Lord Erskine's ...
Pagina 35
... verses . He was more celebrated , however , for his systematic violation of college rules than for his stanzas ; he always ordered his horse at hall - time , was the author of half the squibs that appeared on the screen , turned a tame ...
... verses . He was more celebrated , however , for his systematic violation of college rules than for his stanzas ; he always ordered his horse at hall - time , was the author of half the squibs that appeared on the screen , turned a tame ...
Pagina 85
... verse by a clergyman , the son of a bishop : neither did he say , that he ever rode , like Tom Smith , at a Croxton Park paling , with a hurdle on the top of it . It was on this occasion that Mr. Smith , being taken up half - stunned ...
... verse by a clergyman , the son of a bishop : neither did he say , that he ever rode , like Tom Smith , at a Croxton Park paling , with a hurdle on the top of it . It was on this occasion that Mr. Smith , being taken up half - stunned ...
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The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Volume 1 William Jesse Volledige weergave - 1844 |
The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Volume 1 William Jesse Volledige weergave - 1886 |
The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell, Volume 1 William Jesse Volledige weergave - 1844 |
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acquaintance admiration afterwards alluded amiable amongst amusing anecdote appeared Beau Brummell Beau's beauty Belvoir brother Brum Brummell's Calais called celebrated CHAPTER character Charles Fox Colonel Countess of Bessborough dandy daughter dear death died dine dinner dress Duchess of Devonshire Duke Earl elegant England eyes fair fashion favourite feeling French gave gentleman George Brummell George Selwyn Georgiana give Grace hair heart honour Hunloke intimate Lady Hester ladyship late letter London look Lord Byron Lord Erskine Lord John Lord John Townshend Madame de Staël manner Marquis married morning never night noble o'er Oatlands occasion party perhaps person Pitt poem poetry pounds Prince of Wales probably R. B. SHERIDAN remark replied Royal Highness says scarcely sent Sheridan society spirit Street Sturt talent taste thee thou tion took town verses Watier's wrote young
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Pagina 2 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me.
Pagina 2 - That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed Under a shade on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.
Pagina 2 - Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into a liquid plain then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky.
Pagina 168 - 1 terzo cerchio serra La rividi più bella e meno altera. Per man mi prese e disse : In questa spera Sarai ancor meco, se '1 desir non erra. I* son colei che ti die' tanta guerra E compie
Pagina 134 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly; at dead of night; The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeams' misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Pagina 252 - I hail with a smile and a sigh For his beer with an E, and his bier with an I; And still on that day in the hottest of weather, The whole Whitbread family dine all together.
Pagina 212 - Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Pagina 166 - Mais, si sur votre front je puis me voir un jour, La plus humble des fleurs sera la plus superbe.
Pagina 194 - Yes, on my faith, there are bouts-rime's on a buttered muffin, made by Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland ; receipts to make them, by Corydon the venerable, alias George Pitt ; others, very pretty, by Lord Palmerston ; some by Lord Carlisle ; many by Mrs. Miller herself, that have no fault but wanting metre : and immortality promised to her without end or measure.
Pagina 57 - But, though gradually undermined, and insensibly perishing of an atrophy, dress never fell till the era of Jacobinism and of Equality, in 1793 and 1794. It was then that pantaloons, cropped hair, and shoestrings, as well as the total abolition of buckles and ruffles, together with the disuse of hair-powder, characterised the...