Once Upon a Time, כרך 2John Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 45
עמוד 23
... society had settled into order and security . These atrocities could not have . existed without a most lamentable weakness in the government . Every thing was left to the narrow- minded local authorities . There was no central power ...
... society had settled into order and security . These atrocities could not have . existed without a most lamentable weakness in the government . Every thing was left to the narrow- minded local authorities . There was no central power ...
עמוד 33
... society like this , the street music must have been worth listening to . " A noise of musicians , " as a little band was called , was to be found everywhere ; and they attended upon the guests in taverns and ordinaries , and at " good ...
... society like this , the street music must have been worth listening to . " A noise of musicians , " as a little band was called , was to be found everywhere ; and they attended upon the guests in taverns and ordinaries , and at " good ...
עמוד 38
... society in general . He has no distinct notion whatever of the habits of the middle classes . Society with him is divided into two great sections - the aristocracy and the mob . He was made by his times ; and this is one of the ...
... society in general . He has no distinct notion whatever of the habits of the middle classes . Society with him is divided into two great sections - the aristocracy and the mob . He was made by his times ; and this is one of the ...
עמוד 44
... society . In the instance of Garrick , Pope's strong sense was again opposed to Walpole's super - refinement . The great poet of manners said to Lord Orrery on witnessing Garrick's Richard III . , " That young man never had his equal as ...
... society . In the instance of Garrick , Pope's strong sense was again opposed to Walpole's super - refinement . The great poet of manners said to Lord Orrery on witnessing Garrick's Richard III . , " That young man never had his equal as ...
עמוד 71
... society , except he had some adventitious quality of wealth or birth to recommend him . In 1766 Walpole thus writes to Hume : " You know , in England , we read their works , but seldom or never take any notice of authors . We think them ...
... society , except he had some adventitious quality of wealth or birth to recommend him . In 1766 Walpole thus writes to Hume : " You know , in England , we read their works , but seldom or never take any notice of authors . We think them ...
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עמוד 20 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
עמוד 161 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
עמוד 143 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
עמוד 141 - Rapine and Wrong and Fear usurp'd her place, And a bold, artful, surly, savage race; Who, only skill'd to take the finny tribe, The yearly dinner, or septennial bribe...
עמוד 142 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
עמוד 91 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
עמוד 85 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
עמוד 60 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
עמוד 27 - VAUX'S (WSW) Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum ; being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art preserved there. With 300 Woodcuts. Post Svo.
עמוד 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?