Old World and Young WorldWilliam P. Nimmo, 1865 - 12 Seiten |
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Abdera Abron absurd admit adorned ancients appear Aristotle beautiful become Bessy better Bobby brain called cash Cicero civilisation conceal course creatures crinoline dithyrambic doubt drink drunk eyes fashion folly friends girl give glory grand head heart heaven Hecuba helpmate honour humour husband hypocrisy jelly Jupiter kind La Bruyère lady laugh Livy look love a little Mackenzie Act mamma married ment mind modern moral nature never noble nose nosegay notion old gentleman Old Mother Old World Ovid papa penny perfection perhaps Plato pleasure Plutarch polysoph poor poverty pretend pretty Priapus pride reason Red Lion Square respect rich rogue Samuel Smiles satire shew society Sophocles soul tell thing thought thousand tion tribute true truth vices virtue weeping whisky wife wine wise woman women wonder WORLD AND YOUNG wretched Young World knows Zaleucus
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Seite 120 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 103 - Ye see your state wi' theirs compared, And shudder at the niffer; But cast a moment's fair regard, What maks the mighty differ; Discount what scant occasion gave, That purity ye pride in; And (what's aft mair than a' the lave), Your better art o
Seite 134 - O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us!
Seite 167 - All sly slow things with circumspective eyes : Men in their loose unguarded hours they take, Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. But grant that those can conquer, these can cheat...
Seite 129 - ... which is most unhealthy in its effects upon society at large. There is an ambition to bring up boys as gentlemen, or rather "genteel" men; though the result frequently is, only to make them gents. They acquire a taste for dress, style, luxuries, and amusements, which can never form any solid foundation for manly or gentlemanly character; and the result is, that we have a vast number of gingerbread young gentry thrown upon the world, who remind one of the abandoned hulls sometimes picked up at...
Seite 54 - My choice is store of gold ; the rich are wise. He that upon his back rich garments wears, Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world, The health, the soul, the beauty most divine, A mask of gold hides all deformities ; Gold is Heaven's physic, life's restorative...
Seite 130 - We keep up appearances, too often at the expense of honesty; and, though we may not be rich, yet we must seem to be so. We must be " respectable," though only in the meanest sense, — in mere vulgar outward show.
Seite 131 - ... world of which we form a part. There is a constant struggle and pressure for front seats in the social amphitheatre ; in the midst of which all noble self-denying resolve is trodden down, and many fine natures are inevitably crushed to death. What waste, what misery, what bankruptcy, come from all this ambition to dazzle others with the glare of apparent worldly success, we need not describe. The mischievous results show themselves in a thousand ways — in the rank frauds committed by men who...
Seite 15 - Their arts and fashions of each different guise, Their weddings, funerals, punishments for crimes, Their strength, their learning eke, and rarities; Of old habiliments, each sort and size, Male, female, high and low, to him were known; Each gladiator-dress, and stage disguise; With learned, clerkly phrase he could have shown...
Seite 71 - What's basely done, should be done safely too ; With that dull, rooted, callous impudence Which, dead to shame, and every nicer sense, Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares...