Col. Charteris and the Duke of Wharton

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P. Allan, 1925 - 243 страници
 

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Страница 172 - Thus with each gift of Nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet...
Страница 3 - In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which are the proper objects of contempt, preserve an exquisite and absolute harmony.
Страница 18 - Now is the time that rakes their revels keep; Kindlers of riot, enemies of sleep. His scatter'd pence the flying Nicker * flings, And with the copper show'r the casement rings. Who has not heard the Scourer's midnight fame? 325 Who has not trembled at the Mohock's name? Was there a watchman took his hourly rounds, Safe from their blows, or new-invented wounds?
Страница 172 - Wharton the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise : Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Страница 18 - Snow-hill black steepy torrents run ; How matrons, hoop'd within the hogshead's womb, Were tumbled furious thence ; the rolling tomb O'er the stones thunders, bounds from side to side ; So Regulus, to save his country, dy'd.
Страница 17 - The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the various kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the lion upon them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers. Others are called the dancing-masters, and teach their scholars to cut capers, by running swords through their legs ; a new invention, whether originally...
Страница 155 - He acquired, or more properly created A Ministerial Estate. He was the only person of his time Who could cheat without the mask of Honesty, Retain his primeval Meanness When possessed of Ten Thousand a year ; And having daily deserved the Gibbet for what he did, Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do.
Страница 16 - Mohocks,* and his arms are a Turkish crescent, which his imperial majesty bears at present in a very extraordinary manner engraven upon his forehead. Agreeable to their name, the avowed design of their institution is ' mischief, and upon this foundation all their rules and orders are framed. An outrageous ambition of doing all possible hurt to their fellow-creatures is the great cement of their assembly, and the only qualification required in the members.
Страница 17 - In this manner they carry on a war against mankind ; and by the standing maxims of their policy, are to enter into no alliances but one, and that is offensive and defensive with all bawdy-houses in general, of which they have declared themselves protectors and guarantees.
Страница 16 - I could not forbear communicating to you some imperfect informations of a set of men (if you will allow them a place in that species of being) who have lately erected themselves into a nocturnal fraternity, under the title of the...

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