Modern Manners: Or, The Country Cousins: in a Series of Poetical Epistles |
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almoſt baſhful beaus beſt bluſh canna cauſe charming creature cries d'ye dear defire Doctor evry faſhion feen fervants fhall fifter fince flave fmile foft fome fooliſh foon form'd foul ftand ftill ftrain fubject fuch fure fwear fweet GEORGE HARRIET F hated bands hear heart houſe huſband inſpire irreligion joys juft juſt Lady laft laſt LETTER LETTER Lord Lordſhip lyre maid Mifs HARRIET Mifs KITTY Mifs RUTH RUSTY mind Miſs moſt Mufe mufic muft muſt ne'er never niece night nymph o'er paffion PINDUS poor Portland Place praiſe Pray pretty RALPH RUSTY rove RUSTY to JOHN ſay ſcarce ſcene ſhakes ſhall ſhe ſhould ſpend ſpite ſpouſe ſtairs ſtill ſuch SUSAN ſweet tell thee there's theſe thing thoſe thou thro troth turn'd twas vile wench What's worſe wiſh Worfe young
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Page 87 - Next a party of critics and authors I join'd, And thought I had found out a fet to my mind : Cries a little black man,
Page 88 - ... Not I, Sir, indeed — Read Johnson ! — I'd sooner subscribe to the creed. . . ." " Gud Sir," cries a Scot, springing up from behind, And presenting his snuffbox, "you're quite o" my mind ; Tho' the doctor would fain give all poets the law, O'er the spirit of verse he knows nothing at a'. In spite of his critique, I canna perceive, What there is in your poem of Adam and Eve ; An...
Page 59 - What people furround us ! I vow and declare, " One may almoft as well be at BARTHOL'MEW fair. " My Lord ! Lady CHARLOTTE ! Come, let's dif" appear; " Though the houfe is quite full, yet there's nobody
Page 82 - It aftonifh'd me quite, The cake and the coffee, and tea-things they bore, Without afking us once if we chofe any more. Then they got into parties, as...
Page 24 - ... zur Darstellung zu bringen. Nicht minder originell sind die Briefe der Tante, wenn sie sich z. B. über die weltliche Gesinnung der Dame des Hauses beklagt (III, p. 21/2), oder wenn sie die Anweisungen von Smolletts Tabitha an ihre Dienerschaft in Ansteysche Verse bringt: "Take care that the servants don't get at my jellies; Such dainties are not for their great vulgar bellies: And look all about for my Family Prayers; I i bin k it was left in the closet upstairs; Pray wrap it up safe, for that...
Page 88 - Sir," cries a Scot, fpringing up from behind, And prefenting his fnu'ff box, •• you're quite o' my mind ; " Tho' the doflor woaid ).-•:, give alt poets the law, " O' the fpirit of verfe he knows nothing at a'.
Page 79 - Go with me, he cried, and I'll promife a treat ; There the gay, and the grave, and the learned will meet : There men of all taftes, and all humours you'll find, And may join in the party that's moft to your mind.
Page 90 - Doctor deferves na fie thing— but what then " In troth, I weel know many axcellent men, " Who never have thought it a fhame or difgrace " T' accept a wee panfion or fnug pratty place ;
Page 12 - em go flow, they replied with a crack Of their whip on the haunch of unfortunate hack ; I fretted and fwore, but 'twas ftill all in vain, The hard-hearted villains were deaf to my pain...
Page 80 - I'm quite hoarfe this morning, you need not be told, , You know thorough air always gives me a cold. Then...