The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield

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H. S. Stone & Company, 1898 - 277 sider
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Side 108 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Side 95 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 98 - There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's; and, while I seem attentive to nothing but the Post-man, overhear the conversation of every table in the room.
Side 109 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Side 99 - I do not know that I meet, in any of my walks, objects which move both my spleen and laughter so effectually, as those young fellows at the Grecian, Squire's, Searle's, and all other coffee-houses adjacent to the law, who rise early for no other purpose but to publish their laziness.
Side 128 - The ordinary method of making a hero, is to clap a huge plume of feathers upon his head, which rises so very high, that there is often a greater length from his chin to the top of his head, than to the sole of his foot.
Side 108 - Cato was not so. much the wonder of Rome in his days, as. he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to.
Side 252 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Side 142 - Our modern celebrated clubs are founded upon eating and drinking, which are points wherein most men agree, and in which the learned and illiterate, the dull and the airy, the philosopher and the buffoon, can all of them bear a part.
Side 37 - ... hearing what fell from the weakest utterance ; all objects were thus drawn nearer to the sense ; every painted scene was stronger, every grand scene and dance more extended ; every rich or fine-coloured habit had a more lively lustre : nor was the minutest motion of a feature (properly changing with the passion or humour it suited) ever lost, as they frequently must be in the obscurity of too great a distance...

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