Once Upon a Time, כרך 2J. Murray, 1854 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 59
עמוד 14
... century ago - when we had our famed Augustan age of Addisons and Popes , - when laced coats , and flowing wigs , and silver buckles , ventured into the streets , and the beau prided himself on " The nice conduct of a clouded cane ...
... century ago - when we had our famed Augustan age of Addisons and Popes , - when laced coats , and flowing wigs , and silver buckles , ventured into the streets , and the beau prided himself on " The nice conduct of a clouded cane ...
עמוד 16
... century and a half . We have no doubt that the chair was a most flourishing invention . The state of the pave- ment till the middle of the last century must have rendered carriage conveyance anything ra- ther than safe and pleasant ...
... century and a half . We have no doubt that the chair was a most flourishing invention . The state of the pave- ment till the middle of the last century must have rendered carriage conveyance anything ra- ther than safe and pleasant ...
עמוד 23
... century we should assuredly have thought that 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 ...
... century we should assuredly have thought that 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 ...
עמוד 25
... century has seen flambeaux in London . The intelligent antiquary -not he who discovers nothing of antiquity but what is buried in the earth or described in the classics - may behold a relic of the manners of a hundred years ago in some ...
... century has seen flambeaux in London . The intelligent antiquary -not he who discovers nothing of antiquity but what is buried in the earth or described in the classics - may behold a relic of the manners of a hundred years ago in some ...
עמוד 27
... centuries ago . It is easy to form to our- selves a general idea of the hum and buzz of the bees and drones of this ... century , Libanius . Jonson designates this character by the name of ' Morose ; ' and his peculiarity is that he can ...
... centuries ago . It is easy to form to our- selves a general idea of the hum and buzz of the bees and drones of this ... century , Libanius . Jonson designates this character by the name of ' Morose ; ' and his peculiarity is that he can ...
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amongst ancient Bekfudi BISHOP black ditch bouts-rimés bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap Church coach Court Crabbe eggs England Essay ETON MONTEM Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel gone happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord LORD MAHON Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen recollect ROBERT SOUTHEY says scene Second Edition Shakspere shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets talk taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vathek Vols Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's WASHINGTON IRVING whist Windsor Woodcuts writing young
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עמוד 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
עמוד 136 - 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 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, 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 85 - 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 79 - 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 14 - 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 54 - ... 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 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
עמוד 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...