A Satirical View of London; Or, A Descriptive Sketch of the English Metropolis: With Strictures on Men and MannersR. Ogle, 1804 - 214 páginas |
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... Young Lady Literature Hints to Authors Reviewers Monthly Review Critical Review British Critic Antijacobin Review Monthly Mirror Newspapers A Sketch of Modern Manners 158 166 173 - 184 186 194 199 - 200 200 201 202 202 203 204 206 A ...
... Young Lady Literature Hints to Authors Reviewers Monthly Review Critical Review British Critic Antijacobin Review Monthly Mirror Newspapers A Sketch of Modern Manners 158 166 173 - 184 186 194 199 - 200 200 201 202 202 203 204 206 A ...
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... young women admitted , have been restored to their friends , or placed in situations where they can earn an honest livelihood . From the first in- stitution of this Hospital , Aug. 10th , 1758 , to Jan. 7th , 1802 , there have been 3437 ...
... young women admitted , have been restored to their friends , or placed in situations where they can earn an honest livelihood . From the first in- stitution of this Hospital , Aug. 10th , 1758 , to Jan. 7th , 1802 , there have been 3437 ...
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... young trees , and the Serpentine river adds much to the fine effect of the groves of Kensington Gardens . The extent of those magnificent gardens is nearly three miles and a half . In fine weather , on Sundays , in the spring , the ...
... young trees , and the Serpentine river adds much to the fine effect of the groves of Kensington Gardens . The extent of those magnificent gardens is nearly three miles and a half . In fine weather , on Sundays , in the spring , the ...
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... young ladies at church , adorned with the elegant robe of modesty , and afterwards view the same lovely beings in the boxes at the playhouse , sitting half naked , as if in imitation of women of the town , we can scarcely believe our ...
... young ladies at church , adorned with the elegant robe of modesty , and afterwards view the same lovely beings in the boxes at the playhouse , sitting half naked , as if in imitation of women of the town , we can scarcely believe our ...
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... young men from the country , who are allured to town by the expec- tation of higher wages than the farmers can afford to give . These adventurers find ample scope for the ex- ercise of their corporeal and mental powers in the me ...
... young men from the country , who are allured to town by the expec- tation of higher wages than the farmers can afford to give . These adventurers find ample scope for the ex- ercise of their corporeal and mental powers in the me ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 45 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 60 - I cannot help venturing to disoblige them for their service, by telling them, that the utmost of a woman's character is contained in domestic life ; she is blameable or praise-worthy according as her carriage affects the house of her father, or her husband. All she has to do in this world, is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife, and a mother.
Página 74 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years. The mind impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That education gives her, false or true.
Página 200 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 36 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 126 - What Time would spare, from Steel receives its date, And monuments, like men, submit to Fate! Steel could the labour of the Gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial tow'rs of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
Página 153 - Sam Ervin President Bush has demonstrated these attributes! ;-) Bush, Laura - First Lady "How goodness heightens beauty!" Hannah Mare "There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Página 126 - And strike to dust th' imperial powers of Troy ; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground. What wonder then, fair nymph ! thy hairs should feel The conquering force of unresisted steel ? CANTO IV.
Página 114 - Behold the picture! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Página 160 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.