The guards, 第 2 巻1827 |
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... thing by proxy . But there are two classes of these proxy people : weak idiots , who are led by some artful , interested , and designing com- panion ; and ambitious creatures , who , aware in some measure of their own insignificance ...
... thing by proxy . But there are two classes of these proxy people : weak idiots , who are led by some artful , interested , and designing com- panion ; and ambitious creatures , who , aware in some measure of their own insignificance ...
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... his thousands . Conceive any thing more ridi- culous than his ordering a dressing - case , the price of rivalry of aping the great ! And how many others B 2 THE GUARDS . 3 the one, and the last fashion of the other...
... his thousands . Conceive any thing more ridi- culous than his ordering a dressing - case , the price of rivalry of aping the great ! And how many others B 2 THE GUARDS . 3 the one, and the last fashion of the other...
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... things , depending on others for support , backed by their own coin , that we shall have to treat ; it is of ... thing so handsome or so expensive , which was answered by " Only one ; " on which the spendthrift replied in a truly ...
... things , depending on others for support , backed by their own coin , that we shall have to treat ; it is of ... thing so handsome or so expensive , which was answered by " Only one ; " on which the spendthrift replied in a truly ...
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... things going off well , and great fatigue in being introduced to , and in seeming acquainted with , the friends of those who held his proxy . In this embarrassment the ladies had their share : they were most eager to be known to Graces ...
... things going off well , and great fatigue in being introduced to , and in seeming acquainted with , the friends of those who held his proxy . In this embarrassment the ladies had their share : they were most eager to be known to Graces ...
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... thing my own way there , and I will invite whom you like to meet you . " Here a Guardsman would attract her Lady- ship's eye , and make a great favour of coming to the bourgeois ' party . " I don't know the man , but I'll go to oblige ...
... thing my own way there , and I will invite whom you like to meet you . " Here a Guardsman would attract her Lady- ship's eye , and make a great favour of coming to the bourgeois ' party . " I don't know the man , but I'll go to oblige ...
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accommodation bills admired Almack's ambition amongst amuse appearance attend beauty Bramblewood Brighton brought Bubble and Squeak called Captain carriages Colonel colour Countess Crackpurse's dear debts dinner dress Duchess Duke elegant expense eyes fair fashion father female fortune French Gertrude's Godiveau Grace Guards habits hand Harriette Wilson heart Herbert hero horse-dealer horses husband jewels Lady Claver Lady Gertrude Lady Lydia Lady Panamar's Ladyship late letter little manors London look Lord lost lumbago mamma Marchioness marriage marry match ment Miss morning mother mother's hours never night nobility noble noblesse Opera party passed Pescator pleasure poor pride proxy race rich Right Honourable ruin scandal scenes servants side splendid supper Tenth Hussar theatre thing tier Tiger tion titled town turf vacant Valenciennes lace Villeroi whilst woman young Greenlaw youth
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49 ページ - Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a wedding bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
49 ページ - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
106 ページ - And the weak soul, within, itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. Hence ostentation here, with tawdry art, Pants for the vulgar praise which fools impart; Here vanity assumes her pert grimace, And trims her robes of frieze with copper lace; Here beggar- pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one splendid banquet once a year. The mind still turns where shifting fashion draws, Nor weighs the solid worth of self-applause.
106 ページ - For praise too dearly loved, or warmly sought, Enfeebles all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul, within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
176 ページ - My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it; Stands and lies by...
131 ページ - Pleasures are few, and fewer we enjoy ; Pleasure, like quicksilver, is bright, and coy; We strive to grasp it with our utmost skill, Still it eludes us, and it glitters still : If seiz'd at last, compute your mighty gains ; What is it, but rank poison in your veins...
146 ページ - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
69 ページ - Ordinis haec virtus erit et Venus, aut ego fallor, Ut jam mine dicat jam nunc debentia dici, obscurus evado.
83 ページ - ... in a very languid way, what it is that will relieve them most effectually or, in other words, that the shoe does not really pinch them so hard as we think it does. For when it really pinches, as when a man is being flogged, he will seek relief by any means in his power. So my great namesake said, "Surely the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat...