Etiquette of good societyCassell & Company, 1880 - 223 ページ |
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acquaintances appear arranged Asparagus attend ball beef breakfast bride bridegroom bridesmaids Buckingham Palace butter cake cards ceremony CHAPTER cheese christening church clergyman cloth gilt coloured costume course Cream cups custom dance Daughters dessert dishes drawing-room dress eldest sons elegant entertainment Esquires etiquette fashion fête champêtre fish flowers formal fowls friends fruits gentle gentleman gloves godparents grace guests hand Heraldry honour hostess household invitation Jelly kind Knights Bachelors lady look Lord Lord Chamberlain luncheon manners marriage meal meats ment morning morning dress morocco never o'clock occasions ornamented party person Pine-apple plates present Queen racter roasted round seated servants sideboard silk silver sons of Knights Soufflé Soup speak style supper Sweetbreads Tableaux vivants taste thing tion trimmed Venison Vols W. E. Gladstone wear wedding Whitebait wine Wives of eldest words worn write young younger sons
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20 ページ - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
209 ページ - The glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
52 ページ - Household. Secretaries of State under the degree of Baron. Viscounts' eldest sons. Earls
17 ページ - Atrides would have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in glow of battle, and behave itself like iron. I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal ; but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his non-vulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature — not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way ; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability...
78 ページ - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
215 ページ - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
42 ページ - About five years ago, I remember it was the fashion to be short-sighted. A man would not own an acquaintance until he had first examined him with his glass. At a lady's entrance into the playhouse, you might see tubes immediately levelled at her from every quarter of the pit and side-boxes. However, that mode of infirmity is out, and the age has recovered its sight: but the blind seem to be succeeded by the lame...
52 ページ - Body. Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. Esquires of the Knights of the Bath. Esquires by Creation. Esquires by Office. Younger Sons of Knights of the Garter. Younger Sons of Bannerets. Younger Sons of Knights of the Bath. Younger Sons of Knights Bachelors. Gentlemen entitled to bear Arms. Clergymen...
15 ページ - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
108 ページ - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.