 The plough-boys, cow-herds, and lower hinds are debauched and seduced by the appearance and discourse of those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting...  Humphry Clinker. With illustr. by Phiz - Page 48by Tobias George Smollett - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service,...signification, nor any order or police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the daily increase of this... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service, where they can Kve luxuriously and wear fine clothes, without being obliged to work; for idleness is natural to man.... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they malee their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service, where they ' can live luxuriously, and wear fine cloatbs, without being obliged to work; for idleness is natural to man. — Great numbers of these... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service,...watch nor ward of any signification, nor any order of police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service,...signification, nor any order or police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the daily increase of this... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1902 - 680 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service,...wilderness, in which there is neither watch nor ward of signification, nor any order of police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 596 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service, where they can live luxuriouslv, and wear fine clothes, without being obliged to work ; for idleness is natural to man.... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service,...signification, nor any order or police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. 90 There are many causes which contribute to the daily increase of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London in hopes of getting into service,...watch nor ward of any signification, nor any order of police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...those coxcombs in livery, when they make their summer excursions. They desert their dirt and drudgery, and swarm up to London in hopes of getting into service,...watch nor ward of any signification, nor any order of police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the... | |
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