Women of Fashion and Representative Women in Letters and Society: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies, Volumen 1Tinsley brothers, 1878 |
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Página 8 - I follow it in all the impertinences of dress ; the compliance is so trivial it comforts me ; but I am amazed to see it consulted even in the most important occasions of our lives ; and that people of good sense in other things can make their happiness consist in the opinions of others, and sacrifice everything in the desire of appearing in fashion.
Página 26 - tis my real opinion, and I think I know him. You talk to me of estates, as if I was the most interested woman in the world.
Página 68 - twas not kindly done ? For had they seen the next year's sun, A beaten wife and cuckold swain Had jointly curs'd the marriage chain ; Now they are happy in their doom, For Pope has wrote upon their tomb.
Página 14 - There is hardly a character in the world more despicable, or more liable to universal ridicule, than that of a learned woman ; those words imply, according to the received sense, a talking, impertinent, vain, and conceited creature.
Página 18 - According to this scheme, I proposed to pass my life with you. I yet do you the justice to believe if any man could have been contented with this manner of living, it would have been you. Your indifference to me does not hinder me from thinking you capable of tenderness...
Página 69 - Roman wit is strip'd with English rage; Where ribaldry to satire makes pretence, And modern scandal rolls with ancient sense: Whilst on one side we see how Horace thought, And on the other how he never wrote...
Página 16 - The common method is, to begin by attacking their religion: they bring them .a thousand fallacious arguments, which their excessive ignorance hinders them from refuting: and I speak now from my own knowledge and conversation among them, there are more atheists among the fine ladies than the loosest sort of rakes; and the same ignorance that generally works out into excess of superstition, exposes them to the snares of any who have a fancy to carry them to t'other extreme.
Página 28 - Very few people that have settled entirely in the country, but have grown at length weary of one another. The lady's conversation generally falls into a thousand impertinent effects of idleness ; and the gentleman falls in love with his dogs and his horses, and out of love with everything else.
Página 68 - John Hughes and Sarah Drew ; Perhaps you'll say what's that to you ? Believe me, friend, much may be said On this poor couple that are dead. On Sunday next they should have married; But see how oddly things are carried ! On Thursday last it...
Página 40 - ... mayor, and all the country gentry following, with greater crowds of people than I believed to be in York, vast acclamations, and the appearance of a general satisfaction; the Pretender afterwards dragged about the streets,, and burned ; ringing of bells, bonfires, and illuminations, the mob crying liberty and property...