Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 90
... wife he could do nothing ; and when he had a wife he did whatever she chose . While this lounging , moping boy was ... country gentlemen belonged to the same party . The whole body of agricultural proprietors was hostile to that interest ...
... wife he could do nothing ; and when he had a wife he did whatever she chose . While this lounging , moping boy was ... country gentlemen belonged to the same party . The whole body of agricultural proprietors was hostile to that interest ...
Page 330
... country gentleman took precedence of him by virtue of a purchased coronet , while some pandar , happy in a fair wife , could obtain a more cordial salute from Buckingham , while some buffoon , versed in all the latest scandal of the ...
... country gentleman took precedence of him by virtue of a purchased coronet , while some pandar , happy in a fair wife , could obtain a more cordial salute from Buckingham , while some buffoon , versed in all the latest scandal of the ...
Page 413
... country to study such writers as Theocritus and Catullus , we were to set up a cry against a new edition of the Country Wife or the Wife of the World . The immoral English writers the seventeenth century are indeed much less excusable ...
... country to study such writers as Theocritus and Catullus , we were to set up a cry against a new edition of the Country Wife or the Wife of the World . The immoral English writers the seventeenth century are indeed much less excusable ...
Page 418
... Country Wife and the Old Bachelor is the morality , not , as Mr. Charles Lamb maintains , of an unreal ยท world , but of a world which is a great deal too real . It is the morality , not of a chaotic people , but of low town - rakes ...
... Country Wife and the Old Bachelor is the morality , not , as Mr. Charles Lamb maintains , of an unreal ยท world , but of a world which is a great deal too real . It is the morality , not of a chaotic people , but of low town - rakes ...
Page 424
... wife , a daughter of the house of Rambouillet , was a finished specimen of ... country a fine gentleman and a Papist . His conversion , it may safely be ... Country Wife at one or two and thirty . We are incredulous , we own , as to the ...
... wife , a daughter of the house of Rambouillet , was a finished specimen of ... country a fine gentleman and a Papist . His conversion , it may safely be ... Country Wife at one or two and thirty . We are incredulous , we own , as to the ...
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