The Season: A SatireJohn Camden Hotten, 1869 - 80 páginas |
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Página 45 - Go where you will, you still will fail to find More than a grinning mountebank mankind. Conscious of paltry purpose, or of none ; No pride in winning, peace in having won. Craving a respite from pursuit of pelf, Our age in shows seeks shelter from itself. It strains at mirth...
Página 48 - At last an impudent young dog bid the fiddlers play a dance called ((Moll Pately," and after having made two or three capers, ran to his partner, locked his arms in hers, and whisked her round cleverly above ground in such a manner that I, who sat upon one of the lowest benches, saw further above her shoe than I can think fit to acquaint you with. I could no longer endure...
Página xxviii - ... wrong should be mismeasured and confounded on one of the subjects most momentous to human welfare, rather than that the subject should be freely spoken of and discussed. People are little aware of the cost to mankind of this scrupulosity of speech.
Página 48 - I could no longer endure these enormities; wherefore, just as my girl was going to be made a whirligig, I ran in, seized on the child, and carried her home.
Página 20 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Página 48 - But as the best institutions are liable to corruption, so, sir, I must acquaint you that very great abuses are crept into this entertainment. I was amazed to see my girl handed by, and handing, young fellows with so much familiarity; and I could not have thought it had been in the child. They very often made use of a most impudent and lascivious step called " Setting, w which I know not how to describe to you but by telling you that it is the very reverse of "Back to Back.
Página 48 - I must acquaint you, that very great abuses are crept into this entertainment. I was amazed to see my girl handed by and handing young fellows with so much familiarity ; and I could not have thought it had been in the child. They very often made use of a most impudent, and lascivious step, called " Setting," which I know not how to describe to you, but by telling you that it is the very reverse of
Página 50 - Is not an Orgy, but - an auction-room. These panting damsels, dancing for their lives, Are only maidens waltzing into wives. Those smiling matrons are appraisers sly, Who regulate the dance, the squeeze, the sigh, And each base cheapening buyer having chid, Knock down their daughters to the noblest bid.
Página 55 - Far in the wolds sequestered life she led, Fair and unfettered as the fawn she fed: Caressed the calves, coquetted with the colts, Bestowed much tenderness on turkey poults, Bullied the huge ungainly bloodhound pup, Tiffed with the terrier, coaxed to make it up : The farmers quizzed about the ruined crops, The fall of barley, and the rise of hops : Gave their wives counsel, but gave flannel too, Present where'er was timely deed to do; Known, loved, applauded, prayed for far and wide — The wandering...
Página 22 - Judicious jupon spreading out the spare, Sleeves well designed false plumpness to impart, Leave vacant still the hollows of the heart. Is not our Lesbia lovely? In her soul Lesbia is troubled: Lesbia hath a mole; And all the splendour of that matchless neck Consoles not Lesbia for its single speck. Kate comes from Paris, and a wardrobe brings, To which poor Edith's are "such common things.