The Picadilly ambulator; or, Old Q, memoirs of the private life of that ever-green votary of Venus'.1808 |
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... fair Quaker to turn her back upon her family , and the Society of Friends , set scandal at defiance , and pursue worldly vanities . Sarah's readiness to cast herself into the arms of one who , to her , was almost an utter stranger ...
... fair Quaker to turn her back upon her family , and the Society of Friends , set scandal at defiance , and pursue worldly vanities . Sarah's readiness to cast herself into the arms of one who , to her , was almost an utter stranger ...
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... fair prome- naders , among the foremost of whom was Miss C , who , from her ear- liest day , evinced no small predilec- tion for the well - favoured part of the male sex . The prominency of her situation , as well as the 20.
... fair prome- naders , among the foremost of whom was Miss C , who , from her ear- liest day , evinced no small predilec- tion for the well - favoured part of the male sex . The prominency of her situation , as well as the 20.
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... fair fugitive having , either by art , magic , or some other more ordinary mode , discovered her retreat , made his unwelcome appear- ance at the grove in which the turtle doves were more than billing and coo- ing ; and , equally deaf ...
... fair fugitive having , either by art , magic , or some other more ordinary mode , discovered her retreat , made his unwelcome appear- ance at the grove in which the turtle doves were more than billing and coo- ing ; and , equally deaf ...
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... fair progeny . To give a detailed account , there- fore , respecting the conquest of the heart of an opera goddess , would so much resemble the bombastic stuff with which the columns of the Moniteur are filled , when describing the ...
... fair progeny . To give a detailed account , there- fore , respecting the conquest of the heart of an opera goddess , would so much resemble the bombastic stuff with which the columns of the Moniteur are filled , when describing the ...
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... the world supposed him to be indulg- ing in solitude the grief generally ex- perienced on the death of a near rela- tive , he was revelling in the arms of his fair consoler . Time , however , brought him for- ward once more 38.
... the world supposed him to be indulg- ing in solitude the grief generally ex- perienced on the death of a near rela- tive , he was revelling in the arms of his fair consoler . Time , however , brought him for- ward once more 38.
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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...