The Pursuits of Fashion: A Satirical PoemJ. Ebers, 1810 - 124 頁 |
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第 53 頁 - But my beautiful taste (as indeed you will guess) Is manifest most in my toilet and dress. My neckcloth, of course, forms my principal care, For by that we criterions of elegance swear, And costs me each morning some hours of flurry, To make it appear to be tied in a hurry ; My top-boots — those unerring marks of a blade — With champagne are polished, and peach marmalade.
第 120 頁 - And thought me not dishonoured by his service. One day, (may that returning day be night, The stain, the curse, of each succeeding year!) For something, or for nothing, in his pride He struck me— While I tell it, do I live ? He smote me on the cheek — I did not stab him.
第 7 頁 - ... prohibiting the finger and thumb ; a fourth exclaiming against the intolerable infamy of using soap and water. It is impossible, however, to listen to such pleas. They must all be caught, killed and cracked, in the manner, and by the instruments which are found most efficacious to their destruction ; and the more they cry out, the greater plainly is the skill used against them.
第 104 頁 - A vast assemblage this, where boys from school In jockey garbs first come to play the fool ; Oxonian thick-heads, eminently dense, Who yearly meet to prove their want of sense, And give their steeds that whipcord — truant elves 1 Which wiser Nature destined for themselves.
第 53 頁 - And costs me each morning some hours of flurry, To make it appear to be tied in a hurry ; My top-boots — those unerring marks of a blade — With champagne are polished, and peach marmalade. And a violet coat, closely copied from Byng, And a cluster of seals and a large diamond ring ; And troisiemes of buckskin, bewitchingly large, Give the finishing strokes to the parfait ouvrage.
第 105 頁 - Pompcy'a rough attack, To spur the sides of some ill-fated hack ; Where giant zanies, Lilliputian peers — Some scarcely breech'd, and some advanced in years. Militia bucks, and cornets of dragoons, Like showmen habited, or stage buffoons, With wasted carcasses their rips bestride, And puff, perspire, and pant, and think they ride.
第 63 頁 - Modern Greek", if he does not possess all the attributes of the ancient one, at least lays claim to that quality for which the latter was ever so celebrated, namely, cunning and wariness: and, though he cannot boast much resemblance to Achilles, Ajax, Patroclus, or Nestor, in courage, strength, fidelity, or wisdom, he is nevertheless a close copier of the equally renowned and more successful chief of Ithaca. He is a man habited like a gentleman, to be found in most societies, and who subsists by...
第 54 頁 - As for love — I conceive it a mere empty bubble, And the fruits of success never worth half the trouble ; Yet as Fashion decrees it, I bear the fatigue, That the world may suppose me '* a man of intrigue.
第 64 頁 - Sfc. nay even to proffer peeuniary assistance ; by which, if accepted, it is 'probable he will obtain a legal security, and can fasten on his prey when he pleases. 6. He should have had once the rank of Captain, which will be of great use in introducing him into society ; and • if any regimental peculation should unpleasantly be brought on the carpet; he must place his hand on the left side of...
第 94 頁 - ... which speaks to the honours of his family. And then the return — the great object to be obtained — was so small in comparison with the risk he courted. Let us make the most we can of it, and say he Blazed forth at once, Newmarket's brightest star, With knaves of all descriptions popular, and the notoriety of the Marquis of Hastings is at its zenith. He had not even a sportsman's excuse for his prodigality. He had no personal prowess ; was no horseman, and cared little or nothing for the hounds...