The World, by Adam Fitz-Adam. [209 Nos. in 4 Vols. With a Final No. Entitled A World Extraordinary, Signed Vandyke.]., Volumen1 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 84 - I have been bullied by an usurper; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Página 68 - Let but that commanding word go forth, and no camelion catches his colours quicker than we are ready to imbibe follies from each other. Whereas TASTE, in my opinion, ought to be applied to nothing but what has as strict rules annexed to it, though perhaps imperceptible by the vulgar, as Aristotle, among the critics, would require, or Domenichino, among the painters, practise.
Página 34 - There is not a citizen who does not take more pains to torture his acre and half into irregularities, than he formerly would have employed to make it as formal as his cravat.
Página 176 - Many totally neglect, and many mistake it. The ancients began the education of their children, by forming their hearts and their manners. They taught them the duty of men and of citizens ; we teach them the languages of the ancients, and leave their morals and manners to shift for themselves.
Página 35 - Ovid's metamorphosis succeeded to all the transformations which Chloe and other great professors had introduced into the science of hieroglyphic eating. Confectioners found their trade moulder away, while toymen and china-shops were the only fashionable purveyors of the last stage of polite entertainments.
Página 151 - I have made confiderable improvements in the celebrated map of the realms of love in Clelia. I have adorned the banks of the gentle and...
Página 203 - ... with chairs and coaches; offending themselves, and pleasing nobody; and all this for the vain boast of having drawn together a greater mob than my lady Somebody, or the honourable Mr. Such-a-one? That nothing but witchcraft can be the occasion of so much folly and absurdity, must be obvious to the common sense of all mankind.
Página 146 - ... the divine, and the lover. And I think it my duty to inform the public, that my good friend Mr.
Página 267 - ... in her place, we need look no farther for the author of the griefs which poifon our peace. IN relation to matters purely fpeculative, none who are ever...
Página 104 - I CONSIDER you as fupplemental to the law of the land. I take your authority to begin, where the power of the law ends. The law is intended to ftop the progrefs of crimes by punifhing them ; your paper feems calculated to check the courfe of follies by expofing them.