Chrysal: Or the Adventures of a Guinea ; Wherein are Exhibited Views of Several Striking Scenes ; with Interesting Anecdotes of the Most Noted Persons in Every Rank of Life, Through Whose Hands it Has Passed, Band 3Richards, 1822 - 11 Seiten |
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Accordingly acquaintance advantage affair answered my master appearance attend baboon behaviour blood on fire cause cern changes his service CHAPTER character Chrysal changes Chrysal's master circumstances conduct consequence curiosity danger desire directly distress duty effect Eusebius exerted expect favour fear folly fortune gave gentleman give guineas hand happiness heart heaven honour hopes human imagination ingra instance interest King of Bulgaria knew lady late laws libertine liberty look manner marriage married means ment merit mind motives nature necessary never obliged occasion opinion opportunity passions patron person pleased pleasure poet possession present principles profession proper prostituted proved racter raised reason received religion ridicule ruin scene scheme sense shew soon spirit success taste thing Thomas à Becket thought tion took turn uncommon vanity vice virtue wait whole word
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Seite 227 - Confound your trade, and you together! Here, waiter ! what is to pay?" — "But, dear sir ! why will you be in such a hurry? can you not give yourself and me time to consider a little ! Perhaps we might come nearer to each other !"• — " I have told you before, and I repeat it again, that I will have so much, and that without more words."— " You are very peremptory, sir, but you know your own value, and therefore in hopes you will let me have more for my money next time, I will venture to give...
Seite 231 - Take care !' answered a voice, the hollow trembling of which was sharpened by indignation, 'take care it is not from a fiend of hell, who has taken advantage of your distress to tempt you to ruin ! for with whom else could you be till this time of night? But know, wretched girl, that I will never eat the earnings of vice and infamy. A few hours will put an end to my miseries, which have received the only possible addition by this your folly.
Seite 228 - THE company to which my new master was in such haste to go, consisted of a few persons, whom a similarity of temper had linked in the closest intimacy. With these he spent the remainder of the evening, in a manner which few would dislike, though fewer still could approve it, the spirited wit and liveliness of their conversation gilding the grossest debaucheries...
Seite 232 - ... thought deserving of a return, proper to be made only to heaven ? Oppress me not, Sir, I conjure you, with the mention of what it would have been a crime, I could never have forgiven myself, to know I had not done.
Seite 226 - What ? Before I have seen it ? It is impossible for me to say till I have looked it over, and can judge what it is, and how much it will make '. ' As to your judging what it is, that must depend upon inspiration, which I imagine you will scarcely make pretence to, till you turn Methodist at least ; but for what it will make, here it is, and you judge of that, while I go downstairs for a few minutes '. Saying which, he gave him a handful of loose papers, and left the room.
Seite 229 - ... something in her air and manner so different from those outcasts of humanity, who offer themselves to casual prostitution in the streets, that his curiosity was struck, and he stopped to take more particular notice of her.
Seite 227 - ... days. Where there is any doubt or difficulty in the application it takes off the pleasure from the generality of readers, who will scarce be satisfied with less than the very name. That, sir, is your great merit. Satire must be personal, or it will never do." — " Personal ! that mine never shall be. Vices, not persons, are the objects of my satire; though, where I find the former, I never spare the latter, be the rank and character in life what it will." My master had by this time counted out...
Seite 233 - Departing directly, to save both himself and them the pain of pursuing a conversation that grew too distressful, he went, without regard to change of dress, or appearance, to look for a proper lodging for them ; where he laid in such provisions of every kind, as he knew they must immediately want. This care employed him till the time he had promised to return, when he found such an alteration in the looks and appearance of them all as gave his heart delight.
Seite 229 - Her figure was elegant, and her features regular; but want had sicklied o'er their beauty: and all the horrors of despair gloomed through the languid smile she forced, when she addressed him. The sigh of distress, which never struck his ear without affecting his heart, came with double force from such an object. He viewed her with silent compassion for some moments...
Seite 225 - Booksellers seldom meet with such insolence from authors. I should serve him right, to go away and disappoint him. But would not that disappoint myself more ? He is come into such vogue lately, that the best man in the trade would be glad to get him. Well, if he does not do what I want, I know not who can. Fools may be frighted at the thoughts of a cart's tail or a pillory ; I know better things.