The Club and the Drawing-room: Being Pictures of Modern Life: Social, Political, and ProfessionalR. Hardwicke, 1870 |
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Pàgina 140 - They will remember the peculiar character which belonged to that circle, in which every talent and accomplishment, every art and science, had its place. They will remember how the last debate was discussed in one corner, and the last comedy of Scribe in another...
Pàgina 212 - ... to an inconvenient crowd in your house ; now haughtily smirking, and now impertinently staring, at them ; and flattering yourselves all this time, that, to have the occasional privilege of entering your saloons and the periodical experience of your insolent recognition, is to be a reward for great exertions, or if necessary an inducement to infamous tergiversation.
Pàgina 7 - ... additions to and modifications of their theory, because one after another it was noticed that the heavenly bodies did not behave as they ought, if this theory were true. Until at last the difficulties grew so great that Prince Alphonso of Castile, an amateur astronomer and famous mathematician, said that, if he had been present at the creation, he could have suggested a good many valuable improvements on the theory.
Pàgina 137 - Men who breakfast out are generally liberals. Have not you observed that? I wonder why?' ' It shows a restless revolutionary mind,' said Lady Firebrace, ' that can settle to nothing ; but must be running after gossip the moment they are awake.
Pàgina 140 - ... in Michigan, may soon displace those turrets and gardens which are associated with so much that is interesting and noble, with the courtly magnificence of Rich, with the loves of Ormond, with the counsels of Cromwell, with the death of Addison.
Pàgina 16 - ... length he lay, enshrouded; the genius and the demon of the scene. Alas! he bore no portion in our mirth, save that his countenance, distorted with the plague, and his eyes in which Death had but half extinguished the fire of the pestilence, seemed to take such interest in our merriment as the dead may haply take in the merriment of those who are to die.
Pàgina 211 - ... sacrifice. Well then, of course such people are entirely in one's power, if one only had time and inclination to notice them. You can do anything with them. Ask them to a ball, and they will give you their votes ; invite them to dinner and if necessary they will rescind them ; but cultivate them, remember their wives at assemblies and call their daughters, if possible, by their right names ; and they will not only change their principles or desert their party for you ; but subscribe their fortunes...
Pàgina 210 - University' clubs, formerly mustered in such force at the ' Alfred,' that Lord Alvanley, on being asked in the bay window at ' White's,' whether he was still a member, somewhat irreverently replied — ' .Not exactly : I stood it as long as I could, but when the seventeenth bishop was proposed, I gave in. I really could not enter the place without being put in mind of my catechism.
Pàgina 172 - Vincent felt a certain gratitude, " may know different ; but me as don't have much chance, except in chapel, I will say, as I think he wants speaking to; most folks do — specially young folks, when they're making a start in the world. He's too high, he is, for us plain Salem folks ; what we want is a man as preaches gospel sermons — real rousing-up discourses — and sits down pleasant to his tea, and makes hisself friendly. I never was one as .thought a minister couldn't do wrong. I always said...
Pàgina 15 - Corinnos, and, being of rare workmanship, was fastened from within. Black draperies, likewise, in the gloomy room, shut out from our view the moon, the lurid stars, and the peopleless streets — but the boding and the memory of Evil, they would not be so excluded. There were things around us and about of which I can render no distinct account — things material and spiritual: heaviness in the atmosphere, a sense of suffocation...