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 berd , 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 berd , 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 springs 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 springs 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 118 - Another with your heart, They'll bid aspiring passion rest, And act a brother's part: Then, lady, dread not here deceit, Nor fear to suffer wrong; For friends in all the aged you'll meet, And brothers in the young.
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.
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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 211 - Though deep, yet clear j though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
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Страница 311 - South' wark parishes are accordingly here reckoned among the out-parishes. 3. The city of Westminster, once an Episcopal See, and now the seat of government, adjoins the city of London, extending westward. 4. The appellation of the out-parishes is taken from the London Bills of Mortality, which were first used in the year 1562; and, from 1603, have been kept in regular series. These bills were intended to afford timely notice of any alarming increase of the plague, from which London was then seldom...