The Etonian, Volume 1Knight and Dredge, John Warren, 1821 |
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... lady ! Or , to use the slang of the loungers of the day : at twenty - four she was bang - up ; at twenty - six she was a made - up thing ; at twenty - eight she was done up ; and at thirty it was - all up with her . The Bathos ...
... lady ! Or , to use the slang of the loungers of the day : at twenty - four she was bang - up ; at twenty - six she was a made - up thing ; at twenty - eight she was done up ; and at thirty it was - all up with her . The Bathos ...
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... lady with 40,000l . , smiles upon the adoration of Sir Horace Conway , a fashionable without a farthing , she little dreams that " Venus , " which is her title in the boudoir , is only her nickname at the club . Y « 1 Having now ...
... lady with 40,000l . , smiles upon the adoration of Sir Horace Conway , a fashionable without a farthing , she little dreams that " Venus , " which is her title in the boudoir , is only her nickname at the club . Y « 1 Having now ...
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... lady of rank , " Ensign Roe- nour ! " says his Lordship . " You buck is an officer most deserving dear creature ! you'll open my ball promotion ! " " He shall be a this evening ! " says Lady Germain , colonel ! -I swear by Venus ! " " I ...
... lady of rank , " Ensign Roe- nour ! " says his Lordship . " You buck is an officer most deserving dear creature ! you'll open my ball promotion ! " " He shall be a this evening ! " says Lady Germain , colonel ! -I swear by Venus ! " " I ...
Página 109
... lady , " don't you think this neck- lace becoming ? " " Never saw any thing less so ! " says Godfrey . " Mr. Godfrey , " says the coquette , " don't you think I'm divine to- night ? " " You never looked worse , by Jove ! " says the ...
... lady , " don't you think this neck- lace becoming ? " " Never saw any thing less so ! " says Godfrey . " Mr. Godfrey , " says the coquette , " don't you think I'm divine to- night ? " " You never looked worse , by Jove ! " says the ...
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... lady . But as a thought- less coquette or a haughty prude does occasionally forget the neces sity and the beauty of the word we are discussing , we cannot but recommend to our fair readers to consider attentively the evils which this ...
... lady . But as a thought- less coquette or a haughty prude does occasionally forget the neces sity and the beauty of the word we are discussing , we cannot but recommend to our fair readers to consider attentively the evils which this ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance admiration amusement appearance Asyndeton Bathos beautiful Blanc bright character Courtenay cried dear delight dream dress Elfrida endeavour Eton Etonian expression fair fancy father favour favourite fear feel genius gentleman Gerard Montgomery give Godiva Golightly hand happy hast hath head hear heard heart honour hope Kennet-hold King of Clubs laugh Leofwyn Lionel look Lord Lord Byron Lord Ruthven Lothaire lov'd lover Lozell manner Marriage Martin Sterling Meeting Members mind Monxton Musgrave nature Nesbit never nickname night Number O'CONNOR o'er Oakley object observed opinion passion perceived Peregrine person pleasure Poems Poet Poetry present Quadrille racter readers Reginald d'Arennes replied RICHARD HODGSON Rowley Saxon scene schoolfellows seemed silent smile sorrow soul spirit sure sweet talents taste thee thine thing thought tion turned voice Wentworth Whig William Rowley words Wordsworth young youth
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Página 103 - Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Página 313 - It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Página 312 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside — Her beams bemocked the sultry main, Like April hoar-frost spread; But where the ship's huge shadow lay, The charmed water burnt alway A still and awful red.
Página 222 - O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For...
Página 338 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear - we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms...
Página 314 - With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face. I told her of the knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand ; And that, for ten long years, he wooed The lady of the land.
Página 225 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him 50 Is in its infancy.
Página 338 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed, And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That flush'd her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call : — if 'twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied, She did inherit.
Página 313 - Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning! And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song, That makes the heavens be mute.
Página 338 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?