Junius with His Vizor Up! Or, The Real Author of the Letters Published Under that Signature: Now for the First Time Unveiled and Revealed to the World, in Two Letters to My Cousin in the CountryW. Baxter, 1819 - 54 páginas |
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Página 41 - To these parties," relates Mr. Pennington, " it was not difficult for any person of character to be introduced. There was no ceremony, no cards; and no supper. Even dress was so little regarded, that a foreign gentleman, who was to go there with an acquaintance, was told in jest, that it was so little necessary, that he might appear there, if he pleased, in blue stockings. This he understood in the literal sense; and when he spoke of it in French called it the Bos Bleu Meeting. And this was the origin...
Página 13 - Vain wish ! those days were never : airy dreams Sat for the picture : and the poet's hand, Imparting substance to an empty shade, Imposed a gay delirium for a truth. Grant it : I still must envy them an age That favour'd such a dream...
Página 29 - Yes, Sir! I am that gentleman ; and if you will do me the favour of sitting to me for yours, I will take it so faithfully, that even you yourself shall shudder at it!
Página 35 - ... Sunday, Bro't her home on Monday, Hired a house on Tuesday, Fed her well on Wednesday, Sick was she on Thursday, Dead was she on Friday, Sad was Tom on Saturday, To bury his wife on Sunday. I had a little husband no bigger than my thumb, I put him in a pint pot, and there I bid him drum ; I bought a little handkerchief to wipe his little nose, And a pair of little garters to tie his little hose. As I was going to St. Ives, I met seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats,...
Página 26 - He still went on adding grossness to grossncss, and scurrility to scurrility. I then went round to the chair in which he was sitting, and desired him to feel the muscles of my right arm. He felt them. I then drew up my leg, and desired him to feel and discover if he could, whether that had any muscular energy. He did so. "Now, Sir," said I, " you find that I can both strike and kick; and if you don't hold your tongue, I will first knock you down, and afterwards kick you out of my house.
Página 25 - I teazed him a little by my rapier in reply — but kept myself quite cool in temper, and steadily on my guard. He still went on adding grossness to grossness, and scurrility to scurrility. I then went round to the chair in which he was sitting, and desired him to feel the muscles of my right arm. He felt them. 1 then drew up my leg, and desired him to feel and discover, if he could, whether that had any muscular energy. He did so.
Página 4 - Pope and his letter-writing coterie of obsequious gossips, in their adulation of each other, and their scorn for the rest of the world; or (to step down one flight of stairs) must we, like the chivalrous Warburton c and his faithful squire d (si parva licet, fyc. 4~e.) deal only in conc See in the " Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his friends...
Página 11 - Whittington's cat, there has been no hunt that has required or produced keener sportsmen. During the period in which the Letters were in a course of publication, it is scarcely in the power of language to convey an adequate conception of the intense and eager curiosity that was felt and cherished in regard to the Author of them. Sir William Draper, more especially, stung to the quick, and writhing with mental anguish, occasioned, not so much, perhaps, by the nettlewhip of his tyrant's satire, and...
Página 25 - But for some few years last past, said he, 1 have had no intercourse with him. The last visit he paid me was a most extraordinary one. It was a dinner party; and, surrounded / by my friends, I sat at the head of the table. Person was amongst the number; and was, as usual, very chatty, pleasant, and goodhumoured, until a certain period of the evening, when he committed the most abominable outrage that hospitality ever felt. He had shewn no soreness or displeasure whatever at the topics in conversation...
Página 11 - ... cat, there has been no hunt that has required or produced keener sportsmen. During the period in which the Letters were in a course of publication, it is scarcely in the power of language to convey an adequate conception of the intense and eager curiosity that was felt and cherished in regard to the Author of them. Sir William Draper, more especially, stung to the quick, and writhing with mental anguish, occasioned, not so much, perhaps, by the nettle-whip of his tyrant's satire, and the knout...