The English Metropolis, Or, London in the Year 1820: Containing Satirical Strictures on Public Manners, Morals, and Amusements ; a Young Gentleman's Adventures ; and Characteristic Anecdotes of Several Eminent Individuals who Now Figure in this Great Theatre of Temporary ExhibitionBarnard and Farley, 1820 - 320 страници |
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... beauty ; and from the imperfection of the misshapen dwarf , often to be met with in the city , to the elegant symmetry and majestic stature of the manly form . In mental endowments and ac- quirements , too , a most interesting gradation ...
... beauty ; and from the imperfection of the misshapen dwarf , often to be met with in the city , to the elegant symmetry and majestic stature of the manly form . In mental endowments and ac- quirements , too , a most interesting gradation ...
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... beauty , grace , and refinement of the young lady , " 6 Adorn'd With all that earth and heaven can bestow To make her amiable ; " and the gradual developement of mind , from the plain good sense of the industrious handicraftsman ...
... beauty , grace , and refinement of the young lady , " 6 Adorn'd With all that earth and heaven can bestow To make her amiable ; " and the gradual developement of mind , from the plain good sense of the industrious handicraftsman ...
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... beauty of its interior archi- tecture . Among the modern churches that of St. Mary - le - Bone is remarkable for a spacious and stately portico composed of eight columns and two pilasters of Portland stone , in the Corin- thian order ...
... beauty of its interior archi- tecture . Among the modern churches that of St. Mary - le - Bone is remarkable for a spacious and stately portico composed of eight columns and two pilasters of Portland stone , in the Corin- thian order ...
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... beauty of this part of the town . It is to be regretted , however , that the bad taste of the architect has induced him to form the fronts of the houses , and even the columns at the en- trances , of that composition termed Roman ce ...
... beauty of this part of the town . It is to be regretted , however , that the bad taste of the architect has induced him to form the fronts of the houses , and even the columns at the en- trances , of that composition termed Roman ce ...
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... beauty - especially when compared with the dull plane of Waterloo Bridge , which has been overpraised by the pretenders to a taste for architecture . WATERLOO BRIDGE crosses the Thames from the western angle of Somerset House to Lambeth ...
... beauty - especially when compared with the dull plane of Waterloo Bridge , which has been overpraised by the pretenders to a taste for architecture . WATERLOO BRIDGE crosses the Thames from the western angle of Somerset House to Lambeth ...
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Страница 132 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action...
Страница 90 - Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Страница 273 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Страница 132 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Страница 298 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Страница 308 - While others vow that to him Handel Is hardly fit to hold a candle. Strange that such difference should be "Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.
Страница 8 - London (a); a place not dignified with the name of a colony, but the chief residence of merchants, and the great mart of trade and commerce.
Страница 235 - O most pernicious woman! 0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables, — meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. — [Writing. So, uncle, there you are. — Now to my word; It is "Adieu, adieu! remember me,
Страница 290 - If men of wit, who think fit to write for the stage, instead of this pitiful way of giving delight, would turn their thoughts upon raising it from such good natural impulses as are in the audience, but are choked up by vice and luxury, they would not only please, but befriend us at the same time.
Страница 285 - ... less than Cato's sword. Britons attend: be worth like this approv'd, And show you have the virtue to be mov'd. With honest scorn the first fam'd Cato view'd Rome learning arts from Greece, whom she subdu'd. Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song: Dare to have sense yourselves, assert the stage, Be justly...