 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 654 páginas
...proportionate restraint on all within their circle, which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing both manners...station, of calling each other by such familiar names as Dick, Jack, Tom, &c.* — a mode of address, that brings with it, in its very sound, the notion of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 páginas
...circle, which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit—subduing both manners and conversation to a sort of polished...station, of calling each other by such familiar names as Dick, Jack, Tom, etc. *—a mode of address, that hrings with it, in its very sound, the notion of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 564 páginas
...proportionate restraint on all within their circle, which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing both manners...sort of polished level, to rise above which is often 1779 . thought almost as vulgar as to sink below it. Of the greater ease of manners that existed some... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 566 páginas
...which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing 297 CHAP, both manners and conversation to a sort of ; polished level, to rise above which is often 1779- thought almost as vulgar as to sink below it. Of the greater ease of manners that existed some... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 568 páginas
...circle, which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing 297 both manners and conversation to a sort of polished level, to rise above which is often J779- thought almost as vulgar as to sink below it. Of the greater ease of manners that existed some... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 páginas
...proportionate restraint on all within their circle, which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing both manners...station, of calling each other by such familiar names as Dick, Jack, Tom, &c.* — a mode of address, that brings with it, in its very sound, the notion of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 páginas
...proportionate restraint on all within their circle , which have been fatal to conviviality and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing both manners..., of calling each other by such familiar names as Dick, Jack, Tom, etc. ' — a mode of address , that brings with it, in its very sound, the notion... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 páginas
...proportionate restraint ' on all within their circle, which have been fatal to conviviality ' and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing both '...years ago, one trifling but not the less significant indica' tion was the habit, then prevalent among men of high station, ' of calling each other by such... | |
 | 1844 - 702 páginas
...proportionate restraint ' on all within their circle, which have been fatal to conviviality ' and humour, and not very propitious to wit — subduing both '...years ago, one trifling but not the less significant indiea' tion was the habit, then prevalent among men of high station, ' of calling each other by such... | |
 | Idler - 1856 - 386 páginas
...proportionate restraint on all within their circle, which have been fatal to conviviality aud humour, and not very propitious to wit, subduing both manners...above which is often thought almost as vulgar as to fall much below it." But, then, we must remember that every age has its own merits ; and it is useless... | |
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... and not very propitious to wit — subduing both manners and conversation to a sort of polished level, to rise above which is often thought almost as vulgar as to sink below it. 
