Men and Manners: Sketches and EssaysWard Lock, 1970 - 313 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract admiration affected amuse appearance beauty better blue-stockings cant caput mortuum CASTLE OF INDOLENCE character common critic Decameron delight Domenichino Don Quixote dull Editor effeminacy English envy equally everything excellence excite fancy fashion favour favourite feeling French genius give grace ground hate heart heroes human humour idea ignorance imagination insipid interest knowledge lady laugh less look Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Byron Lord Chatham Mail-Coach manner merit MERRY ENGLAND mind moral nature never nickname object opinion ourselves pain party passion perfection perhaps persons pleasure prejudice pretensions pride principle proof quackery racter reason refinement Rembrandt sense sentiment Shakspeare shibboleth Sir Charles Grandison sort sound spirit spleen stand style supposed taste things thought throw tion Titian true truth turn understanding vanity virtue Voltaire vulgar Whig whole words write