Old Bachelors: Their Varieties, Characters, and ConditionsJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admirable affections amongst Anacreon bashful beauty become Brotherhood called cara sposa celibacy CHAPTER character Charles charms chastity cherry ripe comfort confidential confession creature dear delight Dimity domestic dress drink eyes fair lady fancy feeling fellow Finical Bachelor FLEET STREET Flirt fool friends gentle gentlemen girl gout habits hand happy heart Heaven hen-pecked Hogsflesh honour housekeeper human husband HYPOCHONDRIAC imagination indulgence influence Isabella John Gardener Jovianus Pontanus lady live look lost man's marriage married matrimony ment mind mine-a Miss moral mother nature never Old Maids passion pathy peculiar petticoat government physical Placid poor popping the question Pugh racter Sally sense sensibilities sensual sing sister smile social society song soul sure sweet talk tell temper thing thou thought Tickler tion Uncle whilst widow wife wine wish wives woman women wonder young Zachary
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 162 - to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Oh, leave a kiss but in the cup, And I '11 not look for wine: The thirst, that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Seite 162 - 11 not look for wine: The thirst, that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Seite 212 - my dower, I would not wish Any companion in the world but you; Nor can imagination form a shape Besides yourself to like of. • • * » » Hence bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence 1 I am your wife if you will marry me.
Seite 167 - Allah given, To lift from earth our low desire. Devotion wafts the mind above, But Heaven itself descends in love; A feeling from the Godhead caught, To wean from self each sordid thought: A ray of Him who formed the whole, A glory circling round the soul.
Seite 163 - A youth of frolics, an old age of cards, Fair to no purpose, artful to no end ; Young without lovers, old without a friend; A fop their passion, but their prize a sot; Alive, ridiculous ; and dead, forgot.
Seite 11 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover,— Prithee why so pale ? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail ? Prithee why so pale?
Seite 167 - Yes, love, indeed is light from Heaven, A spark of that immortal fire; With angels shared, by Allah given, To lift from earth our low desire. Devotion wafts the mind above, But Heaven itself descends in love; A feeling from the Godhead caught, To wean from self each sordid thought: A ray of Him who formed the whole, A glory circling round the soul.
Seite 203 - He's expected at noon, and no wight till he comes, May profane the great chair and the porridge of plums ; For the best of the cheer, and the scat by the fire, Is the undenied right of the barefooted friar.
Seite 203 - Long flourish the sandal, the cord, and the rope, The dread of the devil, and trust of the pope! For to gather life's roses, unscathed by the briar, Is granted alone to the barefooted friar.
Seite 161 - Dear charming saint' Beneath a new receipt for paint; Here in beau-spelling ' true tel deth,' There in her own ' for an el breth ;' Here ' lovely nymph, pronounce my doom,' There ' a safe way to use perfume :