Sketches and characters of the most eminent and most singular persons now living, by several hands [really by P. Thicknesse]. |
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... seeing it ; unless the follow- oroshi ing incident can be deemed fo . His p going into the Pump Room at Bath , a girl by mistake gave him two hand bills , instead of one : ( the fubject was blond lace ) one , of the two papers fell ...
... seeing it ; unless the follow- oroshi ing incident can be deemed fo . His p going into the Pump Room at Bath , a girl by mistake gave him two hand bills , instead of one : ( the fubject was blond lace ) one , of the two papers fell ...
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Philip Thicknesse. up , and seeing a paper drop from his Lord- fhip's hand , he pick'd it up , and with good address gave it to his Lordship ; which he received in a very obliging manner , and at the fame time made the young gentleman a ...
Philip Thicknesse. up , and seeing a paper drop from his Lord- fhip's hand , he pick'd it up , and with good address gave it to his Lordship ; which he received in a very obliging manner , and at the fame time made the young gentleman a ...
Page 70
... declined naming a price , and the picture it seems , was not to be accepted . The owner therefore repeatedly applied to the Dr. * See a copy of verfes handed about in M.S. to rac to return him the Picture . The Doctor faid ( 70 )
... declined naming a price , and the picture it seems , was not to be accepted . The owner therefore repeatedly applied to the Dr. * See a copy of verfes handed about in M.S. to rac to return him the Picture . The Doctor faid ( 70 )
Page 72
... SEE in England ; we think no grievance yet complained of , more alarming than this ; nor Indictmen more fuitable to be made an Article of I It was through this french Gentleman's hands , the Picture mentioned above ; went to the hands ...
... SEE in England ; we think no grievance yet complained of , more alarming than this ; nor Indictmen more fuitable to be made an Article of I It was through this french Gentleman's hands , the Picture mentioned above ; went to the hands ...
Page 73
... See ! fufpecting we fuppofe , that some employment or favour would be asked ; but the giver knows as well as his L -P , that he has not , nor ever will have , the power or intereft , to make even an Exciseman . * The picture , was of ...
... See ! fufpecting we fuppofe , that some employment or favour would be asked ; but the giver knows as well as his L -P , that he has not , nor ever will have , the power or intereft , to make even an Exciseman . * The picture , was of ...
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Page 49 - The man who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day," Said Butler in his deathless lay.
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Page 79 - So also, where an officer is charged with behaving in a scandalous and infamous manner, unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman...
Page 101 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But he ne'er pardons who has done the wrong.
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Page 134 - Admiral Byng, AT his execution ! who walked out of the cabin upon the quarter deck, with his hat under his arm, bowing to the right and left as he patted through the officers, &c.
Page 75 - ... originality of character. He looks upon mankind with very different eyes from the multitude ; and therefore his Ideas, from being uncommon, have by fools, and knaves, been deemed abfurd. Swift fays, when a great genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark: " That all the dunces and blockheads are in
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Page 118 - Magazine several years later, 21 (March 1792), 167. "a desirable companion for a woman of delicacy." 2 The next year Philip Thicknesse printed the untrue story that while Sterne had been "wallowing in the luxuries of life, and expences of THE TOWN," his mother was being imprisoned for debt at York. Thicknesse professed to admire Sterne's works "as much, as any man living...
Page 117 - E- profefs to admire the works of this very extraordinary genius, as much, as any man living; and that we laid...