The Fashionable World DisplayedJ. Hatchard, 1804 - 81 páginas |
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Página 16 - THE Law of Honour is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another, and for no other purpose.
Página 65 - Beside some faro-table's brink, With me the Muse shall stand and think (Hemm'd sweetly in by squeeze of state), How vast the comfort of the crowd, How condescending are the proud, How happy are the great ! F lit. Still is the toiling hand of Care, The drays and hacks repose ; But, hark, how through the Vacant air...
Página 66 - Through streets and squares pursue their fun ; Home'in the dusk some bashful skim ; Some, ling'ring late, their motly trim Exhibit to the sun. To Dissipation's playful eye. Such is the life for man, And they that halt and they that fly Should have no other plan. Alike the busy and the gay Should sport all night till break of day, In Fashion's varying colours drest ; Till seiz'd for debt through rude mischance, Or chill'd by age, they leave the dance, In gaol or dust — to rest.
Página 66 - Still is the toiling hand of Care, The drays and hacks repose ; But, hark, how through the Vacant air . The rattling clamour glows ! The wanton Miss and rakish blade, Eager to join the masquerade, Through streets and squares pursue their fun ; Home in the dusk some bashful skim ; Some, ling'ring late, their motley trim Exhibit to the sun.
Página 19 - MORAL Philosophy, Morality, Ethics, Casuistry, Natural Law, mean all the same thing ; namely, that science which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
Página 67 - Thy choice nor Health nor Nature greets, No taste hast thou of vernal sweets, Enslav'd by noise, and dress, and play, Ere thou art to the country flown, The sun will scorch, the Spring be gone, Then leave the town in May.
Página 81 - I wish the reformation of principles and the suppression of vice,,I am not sanguine in my expectations of either event, while rank, and station, and wealth, throw their mighty influence into the opposite scale. Then, and not till then, will Christianity obtain the dominion she deserves, when " the makers of our manners" shall submit to her authority, and the PEOPLE OF FASHION become the PEOPLE OF GOD.
Página 81 - Greatly as 1 wish the reform of principles, and the suppression of vice, I am not sanguine in my expectations of either event, while rank, and station, and wealth, throw their mighty influence into the opposite scale. Then, and not till then, will Christianity obtain the dominion she deserves ; when the makers of our manners shall submit to her authority, and THE PEOPLE OF FASHION become THE PEOPLE OF GOD.