The Opera Goer: Or, Studies of the Town, by Ike Marvell, Volume 11852 |
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Page 167 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one. Now, as in Geometry the oblique must be known as well as the right, and in Arithmetic the odd as well as the even, so in the actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
Page 158 - After a winter or two of such experience, and an open acquaintance with gentlemen of acknowledged fashion, she can cast off the leading string of her chaperons, and live her own life of fashion, as proudly, and reasonably independent, as the belly-full beggar in the play ; — Non ego nunc parasitus sum, sed regum rex regalior; (Tantus ventri...
Page 148 - The mafter mouth has no more than before. The owner, methinks, is like Ocnus in the* fable, who is perpetually winding a rope of hay, and an afs at the end perpetually eating it.
Page 205 - Este último consejo que ahora darte quiero, puesto que no sirva para adorno del cuerpo, quiero que le lleves muy en la memoria, que creo que no te será de menos provecho que los que hasta...
Page 205 - ... town. Dress, equipages, perfumery, and the Opera will always have native, city teachers ; but the Pulpit, the Exchange, Journalism, and the Bar, are drawing in recruits from the rough sons of hard country study, and of old-fashioned, rigid, academical education, whose energy, spirit, and influence, will one day make the hot-house progeny of the town quiver in their shoes. Show me an influential journalist, a rising man at our bar, a preacher at once profound and practical, a physician eminent...
Page 55 - ... not add to a gentleman's attractions.' Here and there you may meet with a traveled lady who becomes a pretty subject for salon celebrity. She wears an air of most captivating impudence, and pronounces the names of a great many foreign towns unexceptionably, even to the Gaelic guttural in Munich.
Page 166 - ... by the directors of those days, resolved that half to be more than the whole. Does not the fate of these people put you in mind of two passages, one in Job, the other from the Psalmist ? Men shall groan out of the city, and hiss them out of their place. They have dreamed out their dream, and awakening have found nothing in their hands.
Page 104 - Un homme inégal n'est pas un seul homme, ce sont plusieurs : il se multiplie autant de fois qu'il a de nouveaux goûts et de manières différentes ; il est à chaque moment ce qu'il n'était point, et il va être bientôt ce qu'il n'a jamais été : il se succède à lui-même. Ne demandez pas de quelle complexion il est, mais quelles sont ses complexions ; ni de quelle humeur, mais combien il a de sortes d'humeurs.
Page 125 - A lady's morning work : we rise, make fine, Sit for our picture, and 'tis time to dine.
Page 187 - He does not conceive it possible that classical scholarship should thrive at all, out of sight of the belfry of the old South Church ; and such chance citations from classic authors, as may appear on pages printed in other parts of the country, he considers filched in some way out of Boston books. He regards all those making any profession of learning, out of his own limits, very much as an under pedagogue will eye a promising boy of the ' first form ' who occasionally hears recitations.