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Pickwick Papers (1836-37) [ Places ]
… Theme and Relates a Story about a Queer Client ’Aha!’ said the old man, a brief description of whose manner and appearance concluded the last chapter, ‘aha! who was talking about the inns?’ ‘I was, Sir,’ replied Mr. Pickwick—‘I was … the countenance expressive of care and anxiety; but there was something in the hue of the skin, and gaunt and unearthly appearance of the whole form, which no being of this world was ever seen to wear. “Who are you?” said the new tenant, … the scenes of my long-protracted misery. This apartment is mine: leave it to me.” “If you insist upon making your appearance here,” said the tenant, who had had time to collect his presence of mind during this prosy statement of the …
Fiction | Inn
Anthology
The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… with all this, he is not sure that there may not be something else, some new play to be announced, or some new appearance. The advertisements in the papers will not supply him with the information, for they are only abridgments: … as he can, and filling up one of his four pages with puffs of the exhibitions. The rogue is furthermore of a squalid appearance,— "shabby” with out being “genteel ;” and so is his friend the Theatrical Observer. The following is a taste … "On the wings of morning," from Hoffer, which she sung very effectively. Mrs Weston, of Covent Garden, made her first appearance as the Countess, and gave excellent effect to the character.” How judiciously, in this criticism, are our …
Theatre | Advertisement
Anthology
Of the Standard of Taste (1757) [ Concepts ]
… is obvious to the most careless enquirer; so will it be found, on examination, to be still greater in reality than in appearance. The sentiments of men often differ with regard to beauty and deformity of all kinds, even while their general … difference among men is there oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explanation of the terms commonly ends the controversy; and the disputants are surprised to find, that …
Taste | Religion | Charity
Anthology
Casanova in London (1763) [ People ]
… the names of the guests.” She sat down, making me sit on one side and Sophie on the other. Madame Cornelis then made her appearance, and everyone asked her the same questions, and made the same remarks about me. She said bravely that I was … you can have as many as you like.” “That’s what I came for.” He called out some name, and a tidy-looking lad making his appearance, he told him to get me a wench just as though he were ordering a bottle of champagne. The lad went out, and …
Assemblies | Music | Women
Anthology
Humphry Clinker (1771) [ Places ]
… is unfavourable to Scotland in all its exteriors, such as the face of the country in respect to cultivation, the appearance of the bulk of the people, and the language of conversation in general.—I am not so far convinced by Mr … Wilson, and denounces vengeance against that adventurer.—She was, it seems, strongly affected at the ball by the sudden appearance of one Mr Gordon, who strongly resembles the said Wilson; but I am rather suspicious that she caught cold by …
Fiction | Scotland | Correspondence | Architecture
Anthology
William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]
… his critique of social conventions, manners and fashion. Recognizing this tension should encourage us to see that the appearance of extensive sociability in his Diary disguises a concern to establish strong, deliberative relationships and … in the 1790s, and it can be invaluable for this – with the Lake poets Wordsworth , Coleridge , and Southey, making appearances; the targets of the Treason Trials Horne Tooke, John Thelwall, Thomas Hardy and others clearly being close … his critique of social conventions, manners and fashion. Recognizing this tension should encourage us to see that the appearance of extensive sociability in his Diary disguises a concern to establish strong, deliberative relationships and …
Conventions | Correspondence | Diaries | Friendship | Politics | Radicalism
Encyclopedia
Drury Lane (1740) [ People / Places ]
… to the Service of Collier . Of these Booth was then the chief. The Merit of the rest had as yet made no considerable Appearance, and as the Patentee had not left a Rag of their Cloathing behind him, they were but poorly equip'd for a …
Theatre | Dress | Beauty
Anthology
French prisoners in Leeds (1781) [ People ]
… prioners marched in upon their parole of honour, which the town seemed very much dissatisfied with, as their miserable appearance gave them no hopes of their leaving any thing behind them but fleas and children. Their bounds extended a mile …
France | War
Anthology
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