A Satirical View of London; Or, A Descriptive Sketch of the English Metropolis: With Strictures on Men and MannersR. Ogle, 1804 - 214 páginas |
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... former rouses the passions by an irresistible appeal to the heart ; the latter , by exhibiting a lively portrait of whatever is ridiculous or censurable in public man- ners , at once corrects the foible and enforces pro- priety of ...
... former rouses the passions by an irresistible appeal to the heart ; the latter , by exhibiting a lively portrait of whatever is ridiculous or censurable in public man- ners , at once corrects the foible and enforces pro- priety of ...
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... former , or the discrimina- ting sagacity of the latter , excel in genuine wit , iro- nical humour , and that pathos of sensibility which melts the heart . In support of this assertion , Eng- land has produced a Newton , a Milton , and ...
... former , or the discrimina- ting sagacity of the latter , excel in genuine wit , iro- nical humour , and that pathos of sensibility which melts the heart . In support of this assertion , Eng- land has produced a Newton , a Milton , and ...
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... former were , like the heavenly manna , delicious to every palate ; and the potatoes of the latter , at least equal in flavour to pine - ap- ples ! GERMANS . One great error seems to influence the Germans resident in this capital ; —a ...
... former were , like the heavenly manna , delicious to every palate ; and the potatoes of the latter , at least equal in flavour to pine - ap- ples ! GERMANS . One great error seems to influence the Germans resident in this capital ; —a ...
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... former the honour of being legislators by heredi- tary succession , while the latter are appointed by election . But , in a moral light , their virtues and vices , manners and amusements , are the same , with a few slight shades of ...
... former the honour of being legislators by heredi- tary succession , while the latter are appointed by election . But , in a moral light , their virtues and vices , manners and amusements , are the same , with a few slight shades of ...
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... former- ly practised by Cleopatra , and other celebrated nymphs of antiquity . There remains only one un- explored path , by which our ladies may arrive at a degree of refinement which will surpass the elegance of former ages . Listen ...
... former- ly practised by Cleopatra , and other celebrated nymphs of antiquity . There remains only one un- explored path , by which our ladies may arrive at a degree of refinement which will surpass the elegance of former ages . Listen ...
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Página 45 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 60 - I cannot help venturing to disoblige them for their service, by telling them, that the utmost of a woman's character is contained in domestic life ; she is blameable or praise-worthy according as her carriage affects the house of her father, or her husband. All she has to do in this world, is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother.
Página 74 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years. The mind impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That education gives her, false or true.
Página 200 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 36 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 126 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to Fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
Página 153 - Sam Ervin President Bush has demonstrated these attributes! ;-) Bush, Laura - First Lady "How goodness heightens beauty!" Hannah Mare "There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Página 126 - And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? CANTO IV.
Página 114 - Behold the picture! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Página 160 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.