Select British Classics, Volume 28J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... lady is no longer the admiratic only of a masquerade : every public assembly will fu nish us with Iphigenias undrest for the sacrifice ; and if the next summer should happen to be an hot on our ladies will perhaps improve on the thin ...
... lady is no longer the admiratic only of a masquerade : every public assembly will fu nish us with Iphigenias undrest for the sacrifice ; and if the next summer should happen to be an hot on our ladies will perhaps improve on the thin ...
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... lady of pleasure and the lady of quality ; for as the men will agree , that next to no cloaths at all nothing is more ravishing than any easy dishabille , our ladies for that reason perhaps come into public places , as if they were just ...
... lady of pleasure and the lady of quality ; for as the men will agree , that next to no cloaths at all nothing is more ravishing than any easy dishabille , our ladies for that reason perhaps come into public places , as if they were just ...
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... lady's dress was not rather ornamental than useful , we should think it a little odd , that hats , which seem naturally intended to screen their faces from the heat or severity of the weather , should be moulded into a shape , that ...
... lady's dress was not rather ornamental than useful , we should think it a little odd , that hats , which seem naturally intended to screen their faces from the heat or severity of the weather , should be moulded into a shape , that ...
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... lady has intended to charm her lover , she has shocked him with an hideous squint . The ladies have long been severely rallied on their too great attention to finery : but to own the truth , dress seems at present to be as much the ...
... lady has intended to charm her lover , she has shocked him with an hideous squint . The ladies have long been severely rallied on their too great attention to finery : but to own the truth , dress seems at present to be as much the ...
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... lady , out of a natural love to her native country , proposed the ex- tending their care to the fine gentlemen and ladies of London . In pursuance of this , Monsieur her husband , two or three times in the year , transmits a suit of ...
... lady , out of a natural love to her native country , proposed the ex- tending their care to the fine gentlemen and ladies of London . In pursuance of this , Monsieur her husband , two or three times in the year , transmits a suit of ...
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Page 121 - Squires: many of whom are born only for the destruction of game, and disturbance of their neighbours. They are mere vegetables, which grow up and rot on the same spot of ground : except a few perhaps, which are transplanted into the Parliament House. Their whole life is hurried away in scampering after foxes, leaping fivebar gates, trampling upon the farmers
Page 114 - I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lovers...
Page 78 - ... or two extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate and abandoned, in reality amounts to no more than the resolution of the highwayman, who shoots himself with his own pistol, when he finds it impossible to avoid being taken. All practicable means, therefore, should be devised to extirpate such absurd bravery, and to make it appear every way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. From reading the public prints, a foreigner might...
Page 178 - ... night alone; The tolling bell, which for the dead rings out; A mill, where rushing waters run about; The roaring winds, which shake the cedars tall, Plough up the seas, and beat the rocks withal. She loves to walk in the still moonshine night, And in a thick dark grove she takes delight; In hollow caves, thatch'd houses, and low cells, She loves to live, and there alone she dwells. Then leave her to herself alone to dwell, Let you and I in Mirth and Pleasure swell, And drink long lusty draughts...
Page 169 - ... damaged last season by the fingering of those curious Connoisseurs, who could not be satisfied without feeling whether the figures were alive.
Page 168 - In imitation's dangerous road. Long as Tobacco's mild perfume Shall scent each happy curate's room, Oft as in elbow-chair he smokes, And quaffs his ale, and cracks his jokes, So long, O Brown,* shall last thy praise, Crown'd with Tobacco-Leaf for bays ; And whosoe'er thy verse shall see, Shall fill another Pipe to thee.
Page 3 - The hoop has been known to expand and contract itself from the size of a butter churn to the circumference of three hogsheads : at one time it was sloped from the waist in a pyramidical...
Page 112 - Cake together : you must know, two must make it, two bake it, two break it; and the third put it under each of their pillows, (but you must not speak a word all the time) and then you will dream of the man you are to have. This we did ; and to be sure I did nothing all night but dream of Mr. Blossom. The same night, exactly at twelve o'clock, I sowed hemp-seed in our back yard, and said to myself, " Hempseed I sow, Hempseed ft I hoe, and he that is my true love come after me and mow.
Page 78 - Paris-hiked sword, qualifies the polite owner for a sudden death, and entitles him to a pompous burial, and a monument setting forth his virtues in Westminster-abbey. Every man in his sober senses must wish, that the most severe laws that could possibly be contrived were enacted against suicides. This shocking bravado never did (and I am confident never will !) prevail among the more delicate and tender sex in our own nation : though history informs us that the Roman ladies were once so infatuated...
Page 105 - ... by this sect was, that it was proper, like our great forefather Adam, to go naked; and the proselytes to this faith came abroad in the public streets in open day-light without any clothing. But this primitive simplicity did not agree with the notions of those degenerate days; and the Adamites were looked upon as an intolerable nuisance. Their religion, like all others, was soon attended with persecution: and some of the converts were dragged naked at the cart's tail, some set in the stocks, and...