The Female Jockey Club, Or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age

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D.I. Eaton, 1794 - 207 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 159 - Idea her faint words deny. O liften with attention moft profound! Her voice is but the fhadow of a found: And help!
الصفحة 126 - Coae referunt iam tibi purpurae nec cari lapides tempora, quae semel notis condita fastis inclusit volucris dies. quo fugit Venus, heu, quove color? decens quo motus? quid habes illius, illius, quae spirabat amores, quae me surpuerat mihi, felix post Cinaram notaque et artium gratarum facies?
الصفحة 206 - Muft not an affembly, conftituted for the public good, be of a moft dtttftable nature, if it demands to be bribed in order to difcharge its duty ? Again, " Influence, or, as Reformers...
الصفحة 69 - By nature more an Eagle than a Dove, She impioufly prefers the World to Love. Can wealth give happinefs ? look round, and fee What gay diftrefs ! what fplendid mifery ! Whatever fortune lavifhly can pour The mind annihilates, and calls for more. Wealth is a cheat, believe not what it fays, Like any Lord it promifes and pays.
الصفحة xviii - B - e, or to Me. But You decline the miftrefs we purfue ; Others are fond of Fame, but Fame of You. INSTRUCTIVE Satire, true to Virtue's caufe ! Thou mining fuppkment of publick laws I When fatter d crimes of a licentious age Reproach our filence, and demand our rage ; When purchas...
الصفحة 50 - With an open ruddy countenance, quick in repartee, and no one excelling her in performing the honours of the table, her fociety is generally courted.
الصفحة 159 - Betty rather sees than hears the call : The motion of her lips, and meaning eye, Piece out th
الصفحة 206 - ... on fact, that we did not owe our liberty to the identical evils which they want to expunge.
الصفحة 206 - Mud not an aflembly, conflicted for the public good, be of a mod deteftabh nature, if it demands to be bribed in order to difcharge its duty ? Again, " Influence, or, as Reformers call it. Corruption, is the oil which makes the machine of Government go well.
الصفحة 186 - Who marry to be free, to range the more, And wed one man, to wanton with a score.

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