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... Ormsby . He was of fashion , and easily procured an introduction . The result was natu ral Monsieur le Mari was the most attentive creature possible to every fe male except his wife - Charles Dixon at- tentive to her alone . Having made ...
... Ormsby . He was of fashion , and easily procured an introduction . The result was natu ral Monsieur le Mari was the most attentive creature possible to every fe male except his wife - Charles Dixon at- tentive to her alone . Having made ...
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... Ormsby deter- mined , immediately after the birth - day , to issue one thousand tickets for a masked ball - to engage the police - of- ficers - and to appoint Td arbiter * This facetious gentleman having , one day , met the D- of C in ...
... Ormsby deter- mined , immediately after the birth - day , to issue one thousand tickets for a masked ball - to engage the police - of- ficers - and to appoint Td arbiter * This facetious gentleman having , one day , met the D- of C in ...
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... Ormsby - richly gifted with personal charm and mental accomplishment , and panting with delight - took post to re- ceive her motley guests . Our heroine was a blazing meteor- an ignis fatuus in the world of fashion , whose brilliant ...
... Ormsby - richly gifted with personal charm and mental accomplishment , and panting with delight - took post to re- ceive her motley guests . Our heroine was a blazing meteor- an ignis fatuus in the world of fashion , whose brilliant ...
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... profusion , and ornament , certes the lovely Mrs. Ormsby was second to no one in those material points . The entrance , and grand staircase , -lined with rare and aromatic shrubs led to a suite of drawing - rooms furnished with $ 50.
... profusion , and ornament , certes the lovely Mrs. Ormsby was second to no one in those material points . The entrance , and grand staircase , -lined with rare and aromatic shrubs led to a suite of drawing - rooms furnished with $ 50.
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... trial of 66 my disposition for a twelvemonth ; " and the only bar I make is , that she " be not a French woman , a Jewess , or a woman of quality . ” It was broad day long before the rooms were cleared of masks , and Ma- ria Ormsby 67.
... trial of 66 my disposition for a twelvemonth ; " and the only bar I make is , that she " be not a French woman , a Jewess , or a woman of quality . ” It was broad day long before the rooms were cleared of masks , and Ma- ria Ormsby 67.
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ઃઃ 66 propagate villainy amusement Asiatic bank Barouche-driver beautiful bewitching bless blushes bosom Brighton bull-baiting called into action ceive character Charles Dixon charming collected crouds Dalton dashing Datchet daughter dear door double way-by playing drive Edward elegant envy exer exertion exqui fancy father feel Fogerty follies genius gentleman ghost happy heart hitherto honor hostess husband indulgences INFIDEL MOTHER Julia Lady H lady's law is 66 live Madam malignity of despair Mamma Maria marriage married MASK OF FASHION Mendoza mense ment morning mortification nabob nated nature never ning noble Novel novelty Ormsby's papa peep phaeton pleasure politeness possession practise puppet-so racters Regatta retired revolve these consequences Romance ruin School for Scandal sentimental slavery smile so-Charles SOHO soon spirit splen splendor sport squinting hero ther thousand guineas thousand pounds tion town VENICE vols ward wife WIGMORE STREET woman young youth
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Page 184 - In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious.
Page 78 - Proprietary party, were never seemingly so happily united as at this election, notwithstanding Friends' former protestation and declaration of never joining with that party since the club or knock-down election [of 1742].
Page 184 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them ; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the...
Page 14 - ... at the same time an example of courage, temperance and fidelity. To conceive the importance of this species in the order of nature, let us suppose that it never existed. Without the assistance of the dog, how could man have conquered, tamed and reduced the other animals into slavery ? How could he still discover, hunt down and destroy noxious and savage beasts? For his own safety, and to render him master of the animated world, it was necessary to form a party among the animals themselves —...
Page 15 - ... to oppose them to the other species. Hence the training of the dog seems to have been the first art invented by man ; and the result of this art was the conquest and peaceable possession of the earth.
Page 17 - When bull-baiting was more in fashion than it is, an amateur of this "sublime and beautiful" amusement proposed a wager, " that he would, at four distinct intervals, deprive the animal of one of his feet by amputation, and that, after every individual deprivation, he should attack the bull with his previous ferocity, and continue to do so on his stumps.
Page 180 - Speechless, and fix'd in all the death of woe! So, faint resemblance ! on the marble tomb, The well-dissembled mourner stooping stands, For ever silent, and for ever sad. As from the face of heaven the shatter'd clouds Tumultuous rove, th' interminable sky Sublimer swells, and o'er the world expands A purer azure.
Page 26 - ... of aspect — a modest cadence of body, and a conciliating co-operation of the whole mon, — which expresses an officious promptitude for his service — and indicates, that they...
Page 131 - a "• bird in the hand worth two in the " bush," and put an execution into the house on the morning of the concert.