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The author attends Col. Caustic to a play - Remarks of the colonel on the
entertainment and the audience Mackenzie 7. The regrets of him who has thrown
away domestic happiness in frivolous dissipation ; in a letter from Lucilius
Anonymous .
The author attends Col. Caustic to a play - Remarks of the colonel on the
entertainment and the audience Mackenzie 7. The regrets of him who has thrown
away domestic happiness in frivolous dissipation ; in a letter from Lucilius
Anonymous .
Page 4
The Lounger is one of the best natured characters in the world , even in the
sense which I allow the term to apply to myself . ' Tis the player who frets , and
scolds , and is angry : the looker - on sees more errors in the play ; but he applies
them ...
The Lounger is one of the best natured characters in the world , even in the
sense which I allow the term to apply to myself . ' Tis the player who frets , and
scolds , and is angry : the looker - on sees more errors in the play ; but he applies
them ...
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Laudator temporis acti . JUVENAL . ' Get thee a place , for I must be idle , ' says
Hamlet to Horatio at the play . It is often so with me at public places : I am more
employed in attending to the spectators than to the entertainment ; a practice
which ...
Laudator temporis acti . JUVENAL . ' Get thee a place , for I must be idle , ' says
Hamlet to Horatio at the play . It is often so with me at public places : I am more
employed in attending to the spectators than to the entertainment ; a practice
which ...
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... that he might see whether they were as handsome as their mothers and
grandmothers , whom he had danced with at balls , and squired to plays and
concerts , near half a century ago . was , ' continued my friend , a professed
admirer and ...
... that he might see whether they were as handsome as their mothers and
grandmothers , whom he had danced with at balls , and squired to plays and
concerts , near half a century ago . was , ' continued my friend , a professed
admirer and ...
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Yes , melancholy and gentleman - like , ' said I , as Master Stephen in the play
has it.'Why , that young man , sir , —now that I have observed him closer , —with
that roll of handkerchief about his neck , his squarecut striped vest , his large
metal ...
Yes , melancholy and gentleman - like , ' said I , as Master Stephen in the play
has it.'Why , that young man , sir , —now that I have observed him closer , —with
that roll of handkerchief about his neck , his squarecut striped vest , his large
metal ...
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| Title | The British Essayists: Lounger Volume 30 of The British Essayists, James Ferguson Volume 30 of The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson |
| Editor | James Ferguson |
| Contributor | James Ferguson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2006 |
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