Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-mondeJ. Bell, 1819 - Women |
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... called " An Enter- tainment in Declamation and Music , after the manner of the Ancients . " Anthony Wood imagines it to have been the first Italian opera performed in England , as he expressly says " Oliver Cromwell had now prohibited ...
... called " An Enter- tainment in Declamation and Music , after the manner of the Ancients . " Anthony Wood imagines it to have been the first Italian opera performed in England , as he expressly says " Oliver Cromwell had now prohibited ...
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... called the Hanover , which had the might remain in his native country with misfortune to be captured on its voyage honour , which , with a man of his prin- by a French privateer . His captors used ciples , was precisely the same thing ...
... called the Hanover , which had the might remain in his native country with misfortune to be captured on its voyage honour , which , with a man of his prin- by a French privateer . His captors used ciples , was precisely the same thing ...
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... called several times at his house before she had the good fortune to meet with him ; and when she did gain admittance , her appear- ance was so little prepossessing that the mind of Mr. Howard could not divest itself of a certain dread ...
... called several times at his house before she had the good fortune to meet with him ; and when she did gain admittance , her appear- ance was so little prepossessing that the mind of Mr. Howard could not divest itself of a certain dread ...
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... called , though in reality it goes no farther than between Roanne and Lyons . This elegant vehicle is a huge , lumbering , crazy machine , open || at the sides , with a cabriolet in front ; and carries no less than fourteen persons ...
... called , though in reality it goes no farther than between Roanne and Lyons . This elegant vehicle is a huge , lumbering , crazy machine , open || at the sides , with a cabriolet in front ; and carries no less than fourteen persons ...
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... called Russian shops , there are also , in the most frequented quarters , several well - furnished English magazines , Dutch , Italian , and French : the different merchandizes of which are displayed with much splendour , but are more ...
... called Russian shops , there are also , in the most frequented quarters , several well - furnished English magazines , Dutch , Italian , and French : the different merchandizes of which are displayed with much splendour , but are more ...
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Page 190 - ... chiefly because his spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding, that though all abroad is darkness and humiliation, yet there is still a little world of love at home, of which he is the monarch. Whereas a single man is apt to run to waste and self-neglect; to fancy himself lonely and abandoned, and his heart to fall to ruin like some deserted mansion, for want of an inhabitant.
Page 190 - Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head and binding up the broken heart. I was once congratulating a friend who had around him a blooming family knit together in the strongest affection. "I can wish you no better lot," said he, with enthusiasm, " than to have a wife and children.
Page 190 - Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts of adversity.
Page 190 - I was once congratulating a friend, who had around him a blooming family, knit together in the strongest affection. "I can wish you no better lot," said he, with enthusiasm, " than to have a wife and children. If you are prosperous, there they are to share your prosperity ; if otherwise, there they are to comfort you.
Page 254 - Man, said the mother, is the only beast who kills that which he does not devour, and this quality makes him so much a benefactor to our species. If men kill our prey and lay it in our way, said the young one, what need shall we have of labouring for ourselves?
Page 190 - I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity.
Page 112 - Mr. Hogarth's dutiful respects to Lord Finding that he does not mean to have the picture which was drawn for him, is informed again of Mr. Hogarth's necessity for the money. If, therefore, his Lordship does not send for it, in three days it will be disposed of, with the addition of a tail, and some other little appendages, to Mr. Hare, the famous wild-beast man : Mr. Hogarth having given that gentleman a conditional promise of it, for an exhibitionpicture, on his Lordship's refusal.
Page 77 - THERE'S not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay ; 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
Page 56 - ... that art could bestow. The gratitude of the chief was only equalled by the happiness of his follower, whose honest pride was not long after gratified by his daughter's becoming the wife of that master whom his generous fidelity had saved. That master, by the clemency of more indulgent and liberal times,- was again restored to the domain of his ancestors, and had the satisfaction of seeing the grandson of Albert enjoy the hereditary birthright of his race.
Page 259 - Some years after he was released from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction, who were attached to him, were greatly alarmed; they imagined that this wench had been placed in .his family by the English ministers; and, considering her sister's situation, they seemed...