The Picadilly ambulator; or, Old Q, memoirs of the private life of that ever-green votary of Venus'.1808 |
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... less scurrilous ; if Cannot be recommended as a reliable , " ok in of that Librorum Prohibitorum , pr . 342- Elsewhere , in the same monumentale dealing with John . notorious de factory che work at p.p. 211-2 , in " The Earl Myou as to ...
... less scurrilous ; if Cannot be recommended as a reliable , " ok in of that Librorum Prohibitorum , pr . 342- Elsewhere , in the same monumentale dealing with John . notorious de factory che work at p.p. 211-2 , in " The Earl Myou as to ...
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... less than a week from her first interview with Lord March- mont , she became an inmate of his lordship's beautiful villa at A- in , W - 1 - s , where , whether it were the contemplation of the Avon's windings , the adjacent plains , the ...
... less than a week from her first interview with Lord March- mont , she became an inmate of his lordship's beautiful villa at A- in , W - 1 - s , where , whether it were the contemplation of the Avon's windings , the adjacent plains , the ...
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... him- self of it to effect what he so much . desired . With the utmost alacrity , but less forethought , he threw up the sash of one of the windows , and having sus- pended himself from the rails of the balcony , dropped 54.
... him- self of it to effect what he so much . desired . With the utmost alacrity , but less forethought , he threw up the sash of one of the windows , and having sus- pended himself from the rails of the balcony , dropped 54.
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... less than one hundred thousand pounds . This sum proved of infinite utility to the earl , whose circumstances , at the time of the union , were not totally unembarrassed . His conduct since has been that of a truly affectionate husband ...
... less than one hundred thousand pounds . This sum proved of infinite utility to the earl , whose circumstances , at the time of the union , were not totally unembarrassed . His conduct since has been that of a truly affectionate husband ...
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... ended the frolic : but when his grace came down to breakfast , he was assailed on every side by ironical condolences and inquiries , each of which was a dagger to his feelings . In short , he left the inn in far less 95.
... ended the frolic : but when his grace came down to breakfast , he was assailed on every side by ironical condolences and inquiries , each of which was a dagger to his feelings . In short , he left the inn in far less 95.
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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...