Chesterfield and His CriticsG. Routledge & sons, Limited, 1925 - 328 páginas |
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¹ Bradshaw A. C. Stanhope affairs affection April August believe bien Bishop of Waterford Blackheath Bradshaw Carnarvon character Chester Chesterfield's Letters Churton Collins Common Sense Duke of Newcastle Earl edition endeavour England Ernst expressed faithfull fashion favour February February 9 field's folly French George George II give godson good-breeding Hague Harrington honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humour Ibid Ireland Johnson King Lady least live London Lord Carnarvon Lord Chesterfield Lordship Madame de Monconseil Mahon Majesty Marchmont Maty mean Memoirs ment mind moral nature never Newcastle November October opinion Papers Holland passion perhaps philosophy pleasure political prejudices quoted reason regard resignation ridiculous Sandwich seems sentiments servant Sir Robert Walpole Solomon Dayrolles sure tell thing tout Townshend true truth virtue Walpole's wish word writing written wrote
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Página 18 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 10 - Wit, my lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed hut a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind...
Página 235 - Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, Quam quae sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus, et quae Ipse sibi tradit spectator.
Página 29 - I have offered to so good a lady, with a sincere remorse, and a hearty contrition, can but obtain the least glance of compassion, I am too happy.— Ah, madam, there was a time I— but let it be forgotten— I confess I have deservedly forfeited the high place I once held of sighing at your feet. Nay, kill me not, by turning from me in disdain.
Página 12 - I may justly infer from it, to what a degree the accomplishment of good-breeding must adorn and enforce virtue and truth, when it can thus soften the outrages and deformity of vice and falsehood. I am sorry to be obliged to confess that my native country is not perhaps the seat of the most perfect good-breeding, though I really believe that it yields to none in hearty and sincere civility...
Página 263 - Menagiana a very pretty story of one of these angry gentlemen, which sets their extravagancy in a very ridiculous light. Two gentlemen were riding together, one of whom, who was a choleric one, happened to be mounted on a high-mettled horse. The horse grew a little troublesome, at which the rider grew very angry, and whipped and spurred him with great fury ; to which the horse, almost as wrong-headed as his master, replied •with kicking and plunging. The companion, concerned for the danger, and...
Página 176 - I must freely tell you, that in matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Página 126 - more quiet to it ; but, convinced as I am that I can do " none, I will indulge my ease, and preserve my character. " I have gone through pleasures while my constitution and " my spirits would allow me. Business succeeded them ; " and I have now gone through every part of it, without " liking it at all the better for being acquainted with it. " Like many other things, it is most admired by those
Página 220 - Remember that thou art made man's reasonable companion, not the slave of his passion ; the end of thy being is not merely to gratify his loose desire, but to assist him in the toils of life, to soothe him with thy tenderness, and recompense his care with soft endearments.
Página 14 - I shall not suffer them to confound politics, perplex metaphysics, and darken mysteries. How, amiable may a woman be, what a comfort and delight to her acquaintance, her friends, her relations, her lover, or her husband, in keeping strictly within her character ! She adorns all female virtues with native female softness.