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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... writers derive its name from the language of the ancient Bri- tons , in which leyn is a lake , and din a town , or the town on the lake ; but it must be evident to common sense , that both these conjectures are arbitrary , vague , and ...
... writers derive its name from the language of the ancient Bri- tons , in which leyn is a lake , and din a town , or the town on the lake ; but it must be evident to common sense , that both these conjectures are arbitrary , vague , and ...
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... writers and pub- lishers , who extolled it at the expence of truth , for the purpose of obtaining a temporary popu- larity for their productions . They manufactured their encomiums as Peter Pindar's razor - seller made his instruments ...
... writers and pub- lishers , who extolled it at the expence of truth , for the purpose of obtaining a temporary popu- larity for their productions . They manufactured their encomiums as Peter Pindar's razor - seller made his instruments ...
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... writers on popular manners , to satirize the higher classes of society , without much discrimination . To censure those above us is natural enough , because , though we cannot emulate , we may envy them ; but truth requires more ...
... writers on popular manners , to satirize the higher classes of society , without much discrimination . To censure those above us is natural enough , because , though we cannot emulate , we may envy them ; but truth requires more ...
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... writer , " said another of the company , " to compose the epitaph in Latin , of so eminent and popular an English author as Gold- smith . " " Yet that writer whom you censure , " said Edmund , turning to the person who spoke last ...
... writer , " said another of the company , " to compose the epitaph in Latin , of so eminent and popular an English author as Gold- smith . " " Yet that writer whom you censure , " said Edmund , turning to the person who spoke last ...
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... writers on criticism used it for their common beverage . " I have no doubt , Sir , " said he , ad- dressing the chairman , " but Dryden wrote his prefaces and dedications under the inspiring influence of this vinous cordial . It seems ...
... writers on criticism used it for their common beverage . " I have no doubt , Sir , " said he , ad- dressing the chairman , " but Dryden wrote his prefaces and dedications under the inspiring influence of this vinous cordial . It seems ...
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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.
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 211 - Though deep, yet clear j though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Страница 20 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some...
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...