The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century, in Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the AgeD. Appleton, 1871 - 339 pàgines |
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Pàgina 303 - And so,' returned she, * we have parted with the colt, and have only got a gross of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases ! A murrain take such trumpery! The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better.' ' There, my dear,
Pàgina 196 - New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her life was a sad career of dissipation, and as licentious as her books. But she was much to be pitied. Her father, Sir
Pàgina 59 - a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and upward, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which sixty years ago I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London ? '
Pàgina 157 - Boswell tells us, on the authority of Bishop Percy, that when Dr. Johnson spent part of a summer at his parsonage in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of ' Felixmarte of Hyrcania,' in folio, which he read quite through. This was the book which the curate in
Pàgina 120 - was confounded with what he calls her casuistry. " Chance," he says, " has since that time thrown me very often in her way, and she has as often directed a discourse to me which I do not understand. This barbarity has left me ever at a distance
Pàgina 137 - cloaks, without guards, welts, long buttons, or cuts. And no ecclesiastical person shall wear any coif or wrought night-cap, but only plain night-caps of black silk, satin, or velvet .... and that in public they go not in their doublet and hose, without coats or cassocks ; and that they wear not any lightcolored stockings.
Pàgina 5 - is still in startling contrast with the misery of the poor, and, although vice may have lost its grossness, it still lurks like a canker in the Commonwealth. We shall have little cause to boast of our superior morality, if we " Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to.
Pàgina 77 - and costs above twelve thousand pounds." * In another letter he describes it as "a vast amphitheatre, finely gilt, painted and illuminated, into which everybody that loves eating, drinking, staring, or crowding, is admitted for twelve pence." f It was frequently visited by the king and the royal family, and was apparently very much like the Cremorne
Pàgina 102 - Tatler,' in which he describes his father's death and his mother's grief, Steele says he is interrupted by the arrival of a hamper of wine, " of the same sort with that which is to be put to sale on Thursday next at Garraway's,
Pàgina 302 - by the living jingo she was all of a muck of sweat.' " Possibly the family may have thought themselves disqualified by their rustic habits from appreciating the wit of conversation in fashionable life, as retailed by the two strangers, and may have fancied that something more was meant than met the ear, when they were informed by them that