Sketches of English character, Volumes 1-2 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance Almack's balls banker become Bog of Allen Boxmoor Breguet watch butler Cabinet Ministress Camomile Captain carriage Chaperon charm club cook cousin Creaksley cried daughter dear Débutante dine dinner door Dowager ears English enjoy eyes fashionable favour fellow footman French gentleman gossip Grosvenor Grosvenor Square hand honour horse hour invited Joe Tims John Bull Lady Casserole Lady Patroness lady's ladyship livery London look Lord Casserole's Lord Harry Lordship maid Manvers master ment mind minister Miss morning Mute never night Opera Paquita party poor popular Private Secretary quadrille royal scarcely season Sir Gordon Mosley Sir Jacob Sir Richard Sir Thomas Grosvenor society soul Sporus spring soup standard footman Street sure Surrey hills talk tender thing Thomas tion turbot Vatel venison whisper Willoughby young lady
Passagens conhecidas
Página 147 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Página 89 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red : it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same.
Página 19 - ... somebody's daughter, or from somebody's wife, — or something wonderful or other, that entitles him to the veneration and dinners of an indulgent public. With such a card in hand, our friends grow ungrateful ; forget how many a stupid party of theirs one's efforts had redeemed from the yawns ; — and invite one to a family dinner ! I must do as poor Lady Cork used, when her popularity was flagging ; viz. send an account to the newspapers of my own death, and next day, the contradiction. Something...
Página 155 - In the end, he throws it up as a bad job,—begins to entertain sincere compassion for the Barings and their budget,— and finally entreats the family butler will be so very obliging as to cheat him on, in peace. The butler, according to the superficial plausibilities of civilized life, though the booziest member of every establishment, is expected to be the most sober-looking. A peculiar decency of vesture and gesture is required of him ;—something of the cut of a county member,—something exceedingly...
Página 119 - Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes — that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case at least where I have been ; They smile so when one's right, and when one's wrong They smile still more...
Página 119 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds!
Página 10 - By venturing to dwell upon some dainty-dish, he is sure to lose the opportunity of introducing some striking remark, or hazarding some neat little pun. His appetite is continually on thorns. His slice of venison is, perhaps, brought him just as he has launched into some capital story ; and he has only the alternative of spoiling it, or finding the fat become of opaline opacity when enabled to pay himself proper attention. Now venison, like time and tide, waits for no man ; and the stupidest ass of...
Página 142 - Homes" from L. House and D. House, and a "requests the honour" from the Dowager Lady C. "Ah! ah!" said I to myself, "your popular author is ever a diner out.
Página 2 - ... is grateful to you. A minute later, and the bustle of placing the second course on the table would be fatal to the success of your attempt. That most disagreeable interruption at an end, the real business of dinner conversation begins. The tide is setting in. Till the rubicon of the second course is passed, your careful talker feels that all is preamble. It is not worth while to hazard anything of real excellence. It is waste of powder and shot to lavish pearls before the rapacious animals who...
Página 342 - This is the third Christmas I have spent at K Park; and decidedly, I must provide for myself elsewhere next winter. Lord K is such a bore, with his everlasting relations ! — that eternal brother and sister-in-law, and the neighbours Sir John and Lady Wiseacre, seem as completely established there, as the family plate ; and it is too much to expect a man ^to do the agreeable, year after year, to the same people. I saw a smile exchanged between K and Lady Theresa, when I began my famous story about...