The Season: A SatireHardwicke, 1861 - 74 strán (strany) |
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Strana 42 - Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.
Strana 49 - At last an impudent young dog bid the fiddlers play a dance called "Moll Pately." and after having made two or three capers, ran to his partner, locked his arms in hers, and whisked her round cleverly above ground in such a manner that I, who sat upon one of the lowest benches, saw further above her shoe than I can think fit to acquaint you with. I could no longer endure these enormities; wherefore, just as my girl was going to be made a whirligig, I ran in, seized on the child, and carried her home....
Strana 49 - They very often made use of a most impudent and lascivious step, called ' setting,' which I know not how to describe to you, but by telling you that it is the very reverse of 'back to back.
Strana 57 - Known, loved, applauded, prayed for, far and wide — The wandering sunshine of the country side. So soft her tread, no nautilus that skims With sail more silent than her liquid limbs. Her hair so golden that, did slanting eve With a stray curl its sunlight interweave, Smit with surprise, you gazed, but could not guess Which the warm sunbeam, which the warmer tress. Her presence was low music ; when she went, She left behind a dreamy discontent, As sad as silence when a song is spent.
Strana 49 - But as the best institutions are liable to corruption, so, sir, I must acquaint you that very great abuses are crept into this entertainment. I was amazed to see my girl handed by, and handing, young fellows with so much familiarity; and I could not have thought it had been in the child. They very often made use of a most impudent and lascivious step called " Setting, w which I know not how to describe to you but by telling you that it is the very reverse of "Back to Back.
Strana 5 - ... wrong should be mismeasured and confounded on one of the subjects most momentous to human welfare, rather than that the subject should be freely spoken of and discussed. People are little aware of the cost to mankind of this scrupulosity of speech.
Strana 27 - ¡nid women unworthy of love. The women care for nothing but the gratification of their vanity; the men for nothing but the gratification of their appetites. Divergence, think you? Be not duped; their aim. in seeming diverse, is in substance same. Cribbed and confined, both need some sensuous sport. The one for praise, the others hunt for port. And all must own that neither act their best Till the half-drunk lean over the halfdressed.
Strana 51 - THESE panting damsels, dancing for their lives, Are only maidens waltzing into wives. Those smiling matrons are appraisers sly, Who regulate the dance, the squeeze, the sigh, And each base cheapening buyer having chid, Knock down their daughters to the noblest bid ! ANON.
Strana 16 - Unmarketable maidens of the mart, Who, plumpness gone, fine delicacy feint, And hide your sins in piety and paint...
Strana 56 - Far in the wolds sequestered life she led, Fair and unfettered as the fawn she fed: Caressed the calves, coquetted with the colts, Bestowed much tenderness on turkey poults, Bullied the huge ungainly bloodhound pup, Tiffed with the terrier, coaxed to make it up : The farmers quizzed about the ruined crops, The fall of barley, and the rise of hops : Gave their wives counsel, but gave flannel too, Present where'er was timely deed to do; Known, loved, applauded, prayed for far and wide — The wandering...