The Picadilly ambulator; or, Old Q, memoirs of the private life of that ever-green votary of Venus'.1808 |
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... attacks of a nature similar to that which we have just re- corded . Fortunately for Lord Marchmont , he had on this occasion to deal with á person ( we mean Miss C's guar- dian ) , who , like himself , thought life more valuable than ...
... attacks of a nature similar to that which we have just re- corded . Fortunately for Lord Marchmont , he had on this occasion to deal with á person ( we mean Miss C's guar- dian ) , who , like himself , thought life more valuable than ...
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... attacks upon him . Although the Duke of Quiz has never gathered for himself a connubial bouquet from the numerous parterres of loveliness and rank that have been , and are presented to his view , he seems not to have been totally ...
... attacks upon him . Although the Duke of Quiz has never gathered for himself a connubial bouquet from the numerous parterres of loveliness and rank that have been , and are presented to his view , he seems not to have been totally ...
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... attacked by a fit of the gout before he could reach the parliament - house , had returned home , and was at that moment coming up stairs , for the purpose of passing an hour or two with his frail rib . The sound of a heavy footstep on ...
... attacked by a fit of the gout before he could reach the parliament - house , had returned home , and was at that moment coming up stairs , for the purpose of passing an hour or two with his frail rib . The sound of a heavy footstep on ...
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... attacks of the long - robed gentlemen .. To escape unperceived by the ordi- nary way , that is , by the door of the chamber , was impossible , since there was a certainty of encountering the baronet on the stairs in case he at- tempted ...
... attacks of the long - robed gentlemen .. To escape unperceived by the ordi- nary way , that is , by the door of the chamber , was impossible , since there was a certainty of encountering the baronet on the stairs in case he at- tempted ...
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... attack to manual exertion ; but the young lady , favoured by her cause , as well as by the superiority which , in point of strength , youth gave her over the old debauchee , effect- ed her escape from his nauseous em- brace , and gained ...
... attack to manual exertion ; but the young lady , favoured by her cause , as well as by the superiority which , in point of strength , youth gave her over the old debauchee , effect- ed her escape from his nauseous em- brace , and gained ...
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Page 108 - Our revels now are ended: these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 42 - Let subtle schoolmen teach these friends to fight, More studious to divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue, sense and reason split, With all the rash dexterity of wit. Wits, just like fools, at war about a name, Have full as oft no meaning, or the same.
Page 1 - ... contempt; but want. of feeling excites indignation. You have shocked me, and I leave you. From exalted rank like yours, my lord, men look for exalted virtue ; and when these are coupled, they command respect, and grace each other ; but the coronet which gives and receives splendour when fixed on the brow of merit, glitters on the worthless head, like a mark of disgrace, to render vice, folly, and inhumanity conspicuous.
Page 1 - Ambulator ; or, Old Q. : containing Memoirs of the Private Life of that Ever-green Votary of Venus ! Throughout which are interspersed Anecdotes of the most noted Fashionables, his Contemporaries. In two volumes. By JP HURSTONE, Esq.
Page 106 - ... conforms to the temper of the times, wisely preferring elegance to tawdry finery. The Duke of Queensborough spends a great portion of the year in the metropolis, and indeed the view of...