The Clubs of London ...H. Colburn, 1832 |
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... honour at no price , Folly to folly added , vice to vice , Wrought sin with greediness , and courted shame With greater zeal than good men seek for fame . " As a poet , Churchill was much over - rated . He has now sunk to his level . He ...
... honour at no price , Folly to folly added , vice to vice , Wrought sin with greediness , and courted shame With greater zeal than good men seek for fame . " As a poet , Churchill was much over - rated . He has now sunk to his level . He ...
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... honoured with the rare and enviable distinction of becoming a member of the Sublime Society . It was then domiciled , for a short time , at the Bedford , under the Piazza , the beautiful apartments at Arnold's theatre , where it now ...
... honoured with the rare and enviable distinction of becoming a member of the Sublime Society . It was then domiciled , for a short time , at the Bedford , under the Piazza , the beautiful apartments at Arnold's theatre , where it now ...
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... honour and faith of a nation , whose honour and faith have ever been the bulwarks of her greatness and well did that rebuke illustrate the immeasurable distance between the moral proportions of an enlarged policy , and the paltry ...
... honour and faith of a nation , whose honour and faith have ever been the bulwarks of her greatness and well did that rebuke illustrate the immeasurable distance between the moral proportions of an enlarged policy , and the paltry ...
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... honour due to the art of a player , neither at Paris , nor at Madrid , nor at Petersburgh ; no , nor any where , but in the mid - heart of cockneyism , would it have been so insulted , as it was by the homage which the town lavished ...
... honour due to the art of a player , neither at Paris , nor at Madrid , nor at Petersburgh ; no , nor any where , but in the mid - heart of cockneyism , would it have been so insulted , as it was by the homage which the town lavished ...
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... honours would have been decreed to him , slily remarked ; " Yes , they would have called him Apollonius of Rhodes . " When I got home , I swore ( the oath is registered in heaven ) that I would never again sit down with a Blue Woman ...
... honours would have been decreed to him , slily remarked ; " Yes , they would have called him Apollonius of Rhodes . " When I got home , I swore ( the oath is registered in heaven ) that I would never again sit down with a Blue Woman ...
Términos y frases comunes
afterwards amongst amusement asked Beef-Steaks called carried cause character Charles Club considerable considered continued conversation course Court Curran delighted Dick Duke effect English entered epigram equally Erskine exclaimed Farmer feelings felt fortune frequently gave gentleman give hand heard heart honour Horne hour human humour imagination John keep kind lady late laugh length letter Linley living Lord Mackintosh means memory ment mind morning natural never night notes observed occasion once party pass perhaps period person play political poor powers present question reason remain remarked replied respect returned seemed seen shillings short side Society soon speech spirit sure talk tell thing thought tion told Tooke turned whilst whole wish