The English Metropolis, Or, London in the Year 1820: Containing Satirical Strictures on Public Manners, Morals, and Amusements ; a Young Gentleman's Adventures ; and Characteristic Anecdotes of Several Eminent Individuals who Now Figure in this Great Theatre of Temporary Exhibition |
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... affectation and folly , oc- casionally appear , in what is termed the fashion- able world ; but they merely serve to amuse the more sensible and refined nobility and gen- try , with whom , in consequence of their rank , they are ...
... affectation and folly , oc- casionally appear , in what is termed the fashion- able world ; but they merely serve to amuse the more sensible and refined nobility and gen- try , with whom , in consequence of their rank , they are ...
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... affectation of humanity and sentiment , he passes through life with the character of an accomplished gentleman , though destitute of that modest dignity which ever ac- companies merit . Were we to inquire why so many new sys- tems of ...
... affectation of humanity and sentiment , he passes through life with the character of an accomplished gentleman , though destitute of that modest dignity which ever ac- companies merit . Were we to inquire why so many new sys- tems of ...
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... affectation ; she revels in the giddy whirl of fa shionable life , at routs , masquerades , and musi- cal parties ; and at length finds that happiness " allures from far , but , as she follows , flies . " THE FALSTAFF OF REFORM ; OR ...
... affectation ; she revels in the giddy whirl of fa shionable life , at routs , masquerades , and musi- cal parties ; and at length finds that happiness " allures from far , but , as she follows , flies . " THE FALSTAFF OF REFORM ; OR ...
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... by patriotic indivi- duals . At those seminaries of affectation , young people gradually acquire a certain degree of confidence and effrontery , while they are taught to disguise OR , LONDON IN 1820 . 149 Hints to Masqueraders.
... by patriotic indivi- duals . At those seminaries of affectation , young people gradually acquire a certain degree of confidence and effrontery , while they are taught to disguise OR , LONDON IN 1820 . 149 Hints to Masqueraders.
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... affectation of singularity , perhaps Robert Southey is our best living poet . His great error seems to be an ineffectual and perpetual imitation of the style of Milton , a poet to whom he is in all respects inferior . His Roderic the ...
... affectation of singularity , perhaps Robert Southey is our best living poet . His great error seems to be an ineffectual and perpetual imitation of the style of Milton , a poet to whom he is in all respects inferior . His Roderic the ...
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Page 132 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action...
Page 90 - Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Page 273 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Page 132 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 298 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums...
Page 308 - While others vow that to him Handel Is hardly fit to hold a candle. Strange that such difference should be "Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.
Page 8 - London (a); a place not dignified with the name of a colony, but the chief residence of merchants, and the great mart of trade and commerce.
Page 235 - O most pernicious woman! 0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables, — meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. — [Writing. So, uncle, there you are. — Now to my word; It is "Adieu, adieu! remember me,
Page 290 - If men of wit, who think fit to write for the stage, instead of this pitiful way of giving delight, would turn their thoughts upon raising it from such good natural impulses as are in the audience, but are choked up by vice and luxury, they would not only please, but befriend us at the same time.
Page 285 - ... less than Cato's sword. Britons attend: be worth like this approv'd, And show you have the virtue to be mov'd. With honest scorn the first fam'd Cato view'd Rome learning arts from Greece, whom she subdu'd. Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song: Dare to have sense yourselves, assert the stage, Be justly...