The Village of Palaces: Or, Chronicles of Chelsea, כרך 2Hurst and Blackett, 1880 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Addison adorned afterwards Apothecaries Astell's Atterbury beauty became Bishop brought bun-house called celebrated character Charles Charles II Chelsea China Chelsea Hospital Cheyne Walk Church colours Cremorne daughter death died doubt Duke Earl England entertained Evremond favour feet fifty flags flowers fond French Fulham garden give Gough House grand ground hall Hoadly honour Horace Walpole house at Chelsea hundred King King's Road Lady land Laurence Street letter Lindsey House lived Locke London Lord Hervey Lord Ranelagh Lord Shaftesbury Lordship mansion marriage married Mary Astell Mazarin neighbourhood obtained occasion out-pensioners Palace Paymaster-General pensioners perhaps plants present Prince Queen received residence river road rooms Royal says seems shillings Sir Stephen Fox Smollett Society specimens stood Street Swift Tatler thou thousand pounds tion took trees visited wall Walpole Walpole's Waterloo wife window writes wrote Zinzendorf
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 210 - ... much laughter was excited ; and if any individual lost his temper so far as to transgress the bounds of decorum, he was effectually checked by the master of the feast, who exerted a sort of paternal authority over this irritable tribe. " The most learned philosopher of the whole collection, who had been expelled the university for atheism, has made great progress in a refutation of Lord Bolingbroke's metaphysical works, which is said to be equally ingenious and orthodox : but, in the meantime...
עמוד 207 - A fourth had contracted such an antipathy to the country, that he insisted upon sitting with his back towards the window that looked into the garden ; and when a dish of cauliflower was set upon the table he snuffed up volatile salts to keep him from fainting: yet this delicate person was the son of a cottager, born under a hedge, and had many years run wild among asses on a common.
עמוד 212 - Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with so much ease, and spirit, and delicacy, and knowledge of the human heart, and all in the serene tranquillity of high life, that the reader is not only enchanted by their genius, but reformed by their morality.
עמוד 309 - The music was truly enchanting ! Right glad was I when I came near it ; But in fashion I found I was wanting : — 'Twas the fashion to walk and not hear it ! A fine youth, as beauty beset him, Look'd smilingly round on the train ; " The king's nephew," they cried, as they met him; Then — we went round and met him again.
עמוד 209 - ... for whom they translated, collated, and compiled, in the business of bookmaking ; and that all of them had, at different times, laboured in the service of our landlord, though they had now set up for themselves in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects were so various, that our conversation resembled the confusion of tongues at Babel.
עמוד 222 - With respect to myself, I have nothing to say, but that if I can prevail upon my wife to execute my last will, you shall receive my poor carcase in a box, after I am dead, to be placed among your rarities. I am already so dry and emaciated, that I may pass for an Egyptian mummy, without any other preparation than some pitch and painted linen...
עמוד 219 - DEAR SIR, Chelsea, March 16, 1759" I AM again your petitioner, in behalf of that great CHAM* of literature, Samuel Johnson. His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress. He says, the boy is a sickly lad, of a delicate frame, and particularly subject to a malady in his throat, which renders him very unfit 'ir his Majesty's service. You know what matter of animosity the said Johnson has against...
עמוד 207 - ... some abortive attempts in plain speaking, had recourse to this defect, by means of which he frequently extorted the laugh of the company, without the least expense of genius ; and that imperfection, which he had at first counterfeited, was now become so habitual, that he could not lay it aside. "A certain winking genius, who wore yellow gloves at dinner, had, on his first introduction, taken such offence at S , because he looked and talked, and ate and drank, like any other man, that he spoke...
עמוד 205 - He carried me to dine with S , whom you and I have long known by his writings. He lives in the skirts of the town ; and every Sunday his house is open to all unfortunate brothers of the quill, whom he treats with beef, pudding, and potatoes, port, punch, and Calvert's entire butt beer.
עמוד 91 - If your lordship does not make haste, I am afraid they will be birds before you see them, for if the account they gave me of them be true, they can't have above two days more to reckon.