THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURTY |
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... appear at times strange and eccentric . Out of them our own customs have grown , but they are so changed as to preserve little or no likeness of the originals . Our criminal code might be the code of a different country , for all the ...
... appear at times strange and eccentric . Out of them our own customs have grown , but they are so changed as to preserve little or no likeness of the originals . Our criminal code might be the code of a different country , for all the ...
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... appear to have been very moderate in Swift's time ; the expense of the journey to and fro was sufficient to exclude the city man of business then . Under date " September 21st , 1710 , " the Dean informs Stella that he has taken ...
... appear to have been very moderate in Swift's time ; the expense of the journey to and fro was sufficient to exclude the city man of business then . Under date " September 21st , 1710 , " the Dean informs Stella that he has taken ...
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... appear to have been in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden , where they " made love to orange - wenches and damned plays . " But , as we shall , perhaps , examine this tribe more particularly in another place , we may take leave of the ...
... appear to have been in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden , where they " made love to orange - wenches and damned plays . " But , as we shall , perhaps , examine this tribe more particularly in another place , we may take leave of the ...
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... and delightful in their way . They appear to have played , and attempted to blend , two widely different characters ; sometimes assuming the dress and manners of the ladies of pleasure , and then the 14 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
... and delightful in their way . They appear to have played , and attempted to blend , two widely different characters ; sometimes assuming the dress and manners of the ladies of pleasure , and then the 14 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY .
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... morality of the " Spectator " re- volted against it - and he thus ridicules one of these in- terviews : " The lady , though willing to appear undrest , had put on her best looks , and painted herself FASHIONABLE LIFE . 15.
... morality of the " Spectator " re- volted against it - and he thus ridicules one of these in- terviews : " The lady , though willing to appear undrest , had put on her best looks , and painted herself FASHIONABLE LIFE . 15.
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第 315 頁 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
第 316 頁 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for, as the Knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him; by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
第 316 頁 - Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
第 314 頁 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley". His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance" which is called after him. All who know ' that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the...
第 317 頁 - ... behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me...
第 317 頁 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does...
第 317 頁 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer, told me that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
第 37 頁 - Their petticoats, which began to heave and swell before you left us, are now blown up into a most enormous concave, and rise every day more and more. In short, sir, since our women know themselves to be out of the eye of the Spectator, they will be kept within no compass.
第 30 頁 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men *. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them t.
第 160 頁 - ... breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.