Almack's: A Novel, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, 1826 - 413 pages |
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Page 179 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed. Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled. — So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 263 - Woos the gay glance of ladies passing by, While his off heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide. Scarce rural Kensington due honour gains ? The vulgar verdure of her walk remains ! Where night-robed misses amble two by two, Nodding to booted beaux —
Page 189 - I take my leave, Sick of his civil pride from morn to eve ; I curse such lavish cost and little skill, And swear no day was ever pass'd so ill. Yet hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed; Health to himself, and to his infants bread, The labourer bears : what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies.
Page 151 - A brighter wash ; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs ; Nay, oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce, or add a furbelow.
Page 331 - She loved him for the dangers he had passed, And he loved her that she did pity them.
Page 165 - At Timon's villa let us pass a day, Where all cry out, 'What sums are thrown away!' So proud, so grand: of that stupendous air, Soft and agreeable come never there. Greatness, with Timon, dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag before your thought. To compass this, his building is a town, His pond an ocean, his parterre a down : Who but must laugh, the master when...
Page 338 - And looks delightfully with all her might ! But, like our heroes, much more brave than wise, She conquers for the triumph, not the prize.
Page 138 - Le Monde est plein de foux, Et qui n'en veut pas voir, Doit se nicher dans un trou, Et casser son miroir." Lord Mordaunt, the only son of this illustrious family, possessed the same kind of disposition as his sister, but without any of her wit; he had all the pride of his mother, without her heart; and the same love of intrigue as his father, but with very inferior talents. He had been thwarted by the Earl in his first wish, -which was to shine on the opposition benches, probably from a kind of spirit...