The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous ... : Drawn from the Life, Volumen1Methuen, 1825 |
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The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and ..., Volumen1 Charles Molloy Westmacott Vista de fragmentos - 2005 |
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Página 84 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace, Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm thy glassy wave?
Página iii - Satirical, Humorous, comprising scenes and sketches in every Rank of Society, being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious.
Página 74 - How will my Fox, alone, thy strength of parts, Shake the loud senate, animate the hearts Of fearful statesmen ? while around you stand Both peers and commons listening your command ; While Tully's sense its weight to you affords, His nervous sweetness shall adorn your words :.f 0 What praise to Pitt, to Townshend e'er was due, In future times, my Fox, shall wait on you.
Página 102 - Etonian it is enough that it brings pure and ennobling recollections, calls up associations of hope and happiness, and makes even the wise feel that there is something better than wisdom, and the great, that there is something nobler than greatness. And then the faces that come about us at such a time, with their tales of old friendships, or generous rivalries.
Página 96 - Monteni •was every two years, and on the first or second Tuesday in February. It consisted of something of a military array. The boys in the Remove, fourth, and inferior forms, marched in a long file of two and two, with white poles in their hands; while the sixth and fifth form boys walked on their flanks as officers, and habited in all the variety of dress which...
Página 356 - ... (a piercing wit, quite void of ostentation, high-erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy, an eloquence as sweet in the uttering as slow to come to the uttering, a behavior so noble as gave a majesty to adversity...
Página 96 - Monmouth.street could furnish, each of them having a boy of the inferior forms, smartly dressed, attending upon him as a footman. The second boy in the school led the procession in a military dress, with a truncheon in his hand, and bore for the day the title of marshal ; then followed the captain, supported by his chaplain, the head scholar of the fifth form, dressed in a suit of black, with a large bushy wig, and a broad beaver, decorated with a twisted silk hatband and a rose, the fashionable...
Página 236 - The sheriff being *answerable for the misdemesnors (17) of these bailiffs, they are therefore usually bound in an obligation with sureties for the due execution of their office, and thence are called bound-bailiffs; which the common people have corrupted into a much more homely appellation.
Página 298 - This he had repeated three several times, by direction of his mistress, before he could obtain an answer. At length, Kemble, roused from his subject by the importunities of the servant, replied, somewhat petulantly, "Tell your mistress I shall not come, and, fellow, do you in future say 'turn.