The Loiterer: A Periodical WorkWilliam Porter, 1792 - 368 pages |
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Page 23 - Angel and dined — famous evening till eleven, when the proctors came and told us to go home to our colleges — went directly the contrary way — eleven to one, went down into St. Thomas's and fought a raff — one, dragged home by fomebody, the Lord knows whom, and put to bed, TUESDAY.
Page 52 - ... let us see some nice, affecting stories, relating the misfortunes of two lovers, who died suddenly, just as they were going to church. Let the lover be killed in a duel, or lost at sea, or you may make him shoot himself, just as you please; and as for his mistress, she will of course go mad; or if you will, you may kill the lady, and let the lover run mad; only remember, whatever you do, that your hero and heroine must possess a great deal of feeling, and have very pretty names. If you think...
Page 197 - An honeit mind and plain, — he muft fpeak truth : And they will take it, fo ; if not, he's plain.
Page 12 - ... Wanted— A Curacy in a good fporting country, near a pack of fox-hounds, and in a fociable neighbourhood •, it muft have a good houfe and (tables, and a few acres of meadow ground would be very agreeable — To prevent trouble, the ftipend muft not be lefs than Sol.
Page 51 - ... two days afterwards. As for your last paper, indeed, the story was good enough, but there was no love, and no lady in it, at least no young lady; and I wonder how you could be guilty of such an omission, especially when it could have been so easily avoided. Instead of retiring to Yorkshire, he might have fled into France, and there, you know, you might have made him fall in love with a French Paysanne, who might have turned out to be some great person. Or you might have let him set fire to a...
Page 50 - SIR, I write this to inform you that you are very much out of my good graces, and that, if you do not mend your manners, I shall soon drop your acquaintance. You must know, Sir, I am a great reader, and not to mention some hundred volumes of Novels and Plays, have, in the two...
Page 310 - The most abandon'd prostitutes are they, Who not to love, but avarice, fall a prey : Nor aught avails the specious name of WIFE; A maid so wedded is A WHORE FOR LIFE.
Page 283 - ... be tortured by the poignant delicacy of their own feelings, and fall the Martyrs to their own Susceptibility'.
Page 264 - ... women affected. He therefore married the daughter of one of his tenants, with no charm excepting a little health and frelhnels, and no acquirements be.
Page 51 - ... person. Or you might have let him set fire to a convent, and carry off a nun, whom he might afterwards have converted, or any thing of that kind, just to have created a little bustle, and made the story more interesting. In short, you have never yet dedicated any one number to the amusement of our sex, and have taken no more notice of us, than if you thought, like the Turks, we had no souls.