The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 Seiten |
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... wives and daughters have put on their shawls , & c . But parlour windows no longer have per- manent seats ; and if they had , no modern would sit on them . There are , however , in all drawing- rooms , large round tables of mahogany ...
... wives and daughters have put on their shawls , & c . But parlour windows no longer have per- manent seats ; and if they had , no modern would sit on them . There are , however , in all drawing- rooms , large round tables of mahogany ...
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... wife was a person of elevated rank originally , is a point of no consequence : indisputably the lady of the song is such . The song , so justly the theme of admiration , may be seen by others , as it was seen and approved of by Dodsley ...
... wife was a person of elevated rank originally , is a point of no consequence : indisputably the lady of the song is such . The song , so justly the theme of admiration , may be seen by others , as it was seen and approved of by Dodsley ...
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... tainted with low amour , devotion to the bottle , a marriage for the sake of worldly advancement , and unseemly squabbles with his patrician wife . I fear- D lessly repeat , that Addison has had quite praise enough THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 25.
... tainted with low amour , devotion to the bottle , a marriage for the sake of worldly advancement , and unseemly squabbles with his patrician wife . I fear- D lessly repeat , that Addison has had quite praise enough THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 25.
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... wife and daughter were in- nocent ; and to recommend them to the charity of the commissaries : and in fine , he declared that in his crime there was neither plot , nor accomplice . Both the commissaries and divines united in exhor ...
... wife and daughter were in- nocent ; and to recommend them to the charity of the commissaries : and in fine , he declared that in his crime there was neither plot , nor accomplice . Both the commissaries and divines united in exhor ...
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... wife , and daughter to quit the kingdom immediately , and for ever , under pain of death if ever they are found in it . As to the brothers and sisters , they were enjoined to change their names ; and the demolition of the house in which ...
... wife , and daughter to quit the kingdom immediately , and for ever , under pain of death if ever they are found in it . As to the brothers and sisters , they were enjoined to change their names ; and the demolition of the house in which ...
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Seite 135 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Seite 120 - Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam...
Seite 137 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 136 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still...
Seite 153 - But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
Seite 52 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Seite 145 - I did never see before) ; and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look which is pleasing. Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts...
Seite 145 - I went upon the river : it raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King came by in his barge, going down towards the Downs to meet the Queen ; the Duke being gone yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Seite 149 - I home by coach, but met not one bonfire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the city at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
Seite 158 - W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before : for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it!