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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... vice of a multitu- dinous community . It is great in extent , popu- lation , commerce , opulence , the perfection and beauty of numberless articles manufactured for the accommodation of man , and the embellish- ment of OR , LONDON IN ...
... vice of a multitu- dinous community . It is great in extent , popu- lation , commerce , opulence , the perfection and beauty of numberless articles manufactured for the accommodation of man , and the embellish- ment of OR , LONDON IN ...
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... vice seem in some instances so blended as to be incapable of separation . Here , as a modern satirist too truly observes , " Two gods divide the world , pleasure and gain . " The commercial residents in the eastern part of the capital ...
... vice seem in some instances so blended as to be incapable of separation . Here , as a modern satirist too truly observes , " Two gods divide the world , pleasure and gain . " The commercial residents in the eastern part of the capital ...
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... vice and folly tremble in the inmost recesses of the most splendid mansion . Indeed , a compa- rison of public manners in London twenty years ago , and at the present moment , must convince the most sceptical , respecting national ...
... vice and folly tremble in the inmost recesses of the most splendid mansion . Indeed , a compa- rison of public manners in London twenty years ago , and at the present moment , must convince the most sceptical , respecting national ...
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... vice among the vulgar herd , who always grasp with avidity whatever has a tendency to depreciate their su- periors . This pestilential crime , which seemed to menace the gradual dissolution of matrimonial and collaterally of national ...
... vice among the vulgar herd , who always grasp with avidity whatever has a tendency to depreciate their su- periors . This pestilential crime , which seemed to menace the gradual dissolution of matrimonial and collaterally of national ...
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... vice ; their grey beards and hollow eyes remind them of morta- lity ; the palsy , atrophy , and death itself , assail them ; and they can no longer empoison . the spring's of social morality , even if they felt the inclination . The ...
... vice ; their grey beards and hollow eyes remind them of morta- lity ; the palsy , atrophy , and death itself , assail them ; and they can no longer empoison . the spring's of social morality , even if they felt the inclination . The ...
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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...