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Strana 56 - The young men of the age lose five, ten, fifteen thousand pounds in an evening there. Lord Stavordale,* not one-and-twenty, lost eleven thousand there, last Tuesday, but recovered it by one great hand at hazard : he swore a great oath,—" Now, if I had been playing deep, I might have won millions.
Strana 43 - I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel — a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
Strana 161 - I have said to you, that this world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel ! This is the quintessence of all I have learnt in fifty years ! Adieu ! 1305.
Strana 113 - Road, which is almost finished. It amazed me myself. Imagine Balbec in all its glory! The pillars are of artificial giallo antico. The ceilings, even of the passages, are of the most beautiful stuccos in the best taste of grotesque. The ceilings of the ball-rooms and the panels painted like Raphael's loggias in the Vatican. A dome like the pantheon, glazed. It is to cost fifty thousand pounds.
Strana 332 - To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the Goodness that has given so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation, which only makes our weakness more contemptible, by showing that we are not what we wish to appear.
Strana 71 - There has lately been an auction of stuffed birds, and as natural history is in fashion, there are physicians and others who paid forty and fifty guineas for a single Chinese pheasant : you may buy a live one for five. After this it is not extraordinary that pictures should be dear. We have at present three exhibitions.
Strana 223 - We have no news public or private; but there is an ostrich-egg laid in America, where the Bostonians have canted three hundred chests of tea into the ocean, for they will not drink tea with our Parliament. My understanding is so narrow, and was...
Strana 321 - So all this complication of knavery receives no punishment, but the loss of the Duchy; unless the civil courts below are more severe 'than the supreme tribunal ; and thither her antagonists intend to resort. The earl's family have talked loudly of a divorce ; but if it is true that he has given her a bond of thirty thousand pounds not to molest her, and that this bond is in Lord Harrington's hands, either she will recriminate, and collusion proved prevents a divorce; or his silence will speak the...
Strana 204 - Scotch banks has reduced them almost as low, and sunk their flourishing manufactures to low-water ebb. The Maccaronis are at their ne -plus ultra: Charles Fox is already so like Julius Caesar that he owes an hundred thousand pounds. Lord Carlisle pays fifteen hundred, and Mr. Crewe twelve hundred a year for him — literally for him, being bound for him, while he, as like Brutus as Caesar, is indifferent about such paltry counters: one must talk of Clodius when one has no Scipio.
Strana 261 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.