WorldT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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acquaintance amusement assure beauty behaviour called character CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS confess correspondent Corsica daugh daughter Dodsley dress elegant endeavoured England English entertainment Eton fashion father favour Felicia fellow follies fortune French Fretters gentleman give Glastonbury thorn happened happy havock heard heart honour hope horses humble servant humour husband Jacobite JAMES RIDLEY King lady learning least letter lived lodgings Lord Lord CHESTERFIELD lover Madam manner married ment mind misfortune mistress modesty nature never obliged observed occasion opinion Pantomime paper passion person pleased pleasure polite pounds present readers reason RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE ridiculous ROBERT DODSLEY shew SOAME JENYNS steganography taste tell thing thought thousand THURSDAY tion told town Truman truth virtue whole wife WILLIAM PULTENEY Wilson witchcraft woman words writing XXVI young
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ii ページ - to ridicule with novelty and good humour the fashions, follies, vices and absurdities of that part of the human species which calls itself the WORLD, and to trace it through all its business, pleasures and amusements.
269 ページ - ... to the sharpers who have cheated him; for those debts are really debts of honour. He lies under one disagreeable restraint; for he must not cheat at play, unless in a horsematch : but then he may with great honour defraud in an office, or betray a trust. In public affairs, he may, not only with honour, but even with some degree of lustre, be in the same session a turbulent patriot, opposing the best measures, and a servile courtier, promoting the worst ; provided a very lucrative consideration...
134 ページ - ... writing, by the help of which none but the corresponding parties who had the key could decipher the matter. But human industry soon refined upon this too ; the art of deciphering was discovered, and the skill of the decipherer baffled all the labour of the cipherer. The secrecy of all literary correspondence became precarious, and neither business nor love could any longer be safely trusted to paper. Such for a considerable time was the unhappy state of letters, till the beau monde, an inventive...
101 ページ - This cannot surely be serious!"—" Very serious, depend upon it, my dear," said my wife; " and pray, by the way, what may there be ridiculous in it ? No such Sysigambis neither," continued she; " Betty is but sixteen, and you know I had her at four-and-twenty." As I found that the name of Sysigambis, carrying an idea of age along with it, was offensive to my wife, I waved the parallel; and addressing myself in common to my wife and daughter, I told them, " I perceived that there was a painter now...
122 ページ - Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snateh a fearful joy.
268 ページ - Romans, honour meant no more than contempt of dangers and death in the service, whether just or unjust, of their country. Their successors and conquerors, the Goths and Vandals, who did not deal much in complex ideas, simplified those of honour, and reduced them to this plain and single one, of fighting for fighting's sake, upon any, or all, no matter what, occasions. Our present mode of honour is something more compounded, as will appear by the true character which I shall now give of a fashionable...
234 ページ - I belong to a club of very honest fellows in the city, who meet once a week to kill care and be innocently merry. Every one of us used to sing his song or tell his story for the entertainment of his friends, and to be good-naturedly jocose upon the foibles of the company. But all our merriment has been at a stand for some time, by the admission of a new member, who it seems is a person of very fine breeding. You must know that he is our superior in fortune ; from which consideration we shew him a...
103 ページ - ... dessert, as they call it, and occasionally to announce visits. A very slatternly, dirty, but at the same time a very genteel French maid, is appropriated to the use of my daughter. My meat too is as much disguised in the dressing by a French cook, as my •wife and my daughter are by their red, their pompons, their scraps of dirty gauze, flimsy sattins, and black callicoes; not to mention their affected K 2 broken English, and mangled French, which jumbled together compose their present language.
96 ページ - ... ill-natured comfort which I might have, of thinking it of late a very common one. I am a gentleman of a reasonable paternal estate in my county, and serve as knight of the shire for it.
71 ページ - What a fool is this fellow,' says a man upon the road, ' to be trudging it on foot with his son, that his ass may go light...