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“The Author is truly a man of talent and genius.”—Lit. Gaz.
“The Author is one of the most masterly painters of national character that have yet appeared in Ireland.”—Edinburgh Review.
“We bid adieu to the Author with the highest opinion of his exalted talents.”—Lit. Chron.
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“In the article of young ladies, unlike all other national manufactures, our exports considerably exceed our imports. Gentlemenmaytravel to study laws and politics, artistsmaytravel to improve themselves, but few girls leave their home, except on speculation.”—Introduction.
“This text is amusingly illustrated and exemplified by the author of this work, who has given some sketches of speculating aunts, flirting daughters, and manœuvring mothers, that will startle some of our fashionable Anglo-Italians.”
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“Is this her fault or mine?The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most?”—Shakspeare.
“Is this her fault or mine?The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most?”—Shakspeare.
“Is this her fault or mine?The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most?”—Shakspeare.
“Is this her fault or mine?
The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most?”—Shakspeare.
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“Blush I not?Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek?Is not my crime there?”
“Blush I not?Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek?Is not my crime there?”
“Blush I not?
Can you not read my fault writ in my cheek?
Is not my crime there?”
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“Among a multitude of other scenes and characters sketched in this novel with great brilliance and effect, will be found:—A Presentation at Court—Westminster School—Country Gentlemen—Methodist Ladies—Lancers—Hussars—Guardsmen—Oxford—Duels—The Continent—The Opera and the Danseuses—Almack’s—Aristocratic Summer Parties—Fashionable Archery—Invitations—Drawing Rooms—Melton Mowbray—Dandies—Quadrilling—Gaming-houses—The Exhibition—Flirtation—Long’s—Foreign Fashionables—Watering Places, &c. &c.”
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“This is an extremely piquant and ingenious satire on politicians of all parties and denominations. In its pages, the aristocratical, gentlemanly, twaddling whig; the interested, profligate tory; the democratical declaimer; the pompous, empty man in office; and though last, not least, the surfeited and satisfied high churchman; all figure in their most ludicrous phrases—nor should we omit to mention, that the conceited utilitarian comes in for his share of ridicule; which, though brief, is of a pleasant pungency. Such a book is much to our tastes, as we infinitely prefer laughing at the extravagancies of the world, to bewailing them.”—London Magazine.
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“We feel confident in stating that this tale is the production of Lord Blessington.”—Literary Gazette, May 1826.
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This Work is the production of a Spanish gentleman, who was personally concerned in the scenes he describes. The private history of the Court at Madrid—the Amours of its imbecile Monarch—the Lives and Luxuries of the Monks—the Atrocities of the Magistracy, and the horrible system of Espionage—are all unmasked with great dramatic effect.
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“Some be’th of war and some of woe,And some of fun and fudge also,Some of escapes and guile and death;Also of Love forsooth there be’th.”
“Some be’th of war and some of woe,And some of fun and fudge also,Some of escapes and guile and death;Also of Love forsooth there be’th.”
“Some be’th of war and some of woe,And some of fun and fudge also,Some of escapes and guile and death;Also of Love forsooth there be’th.”
“Some be’th of war and some of woe,
And some of fun and fudge also,
Some of escapes and guile and death;
Also of Love forsooth there be’th.”
19. A NEW SERIES of ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS, selected from the original Oriental MS., and now first translated into English by the Rev. GEORGE LAMB. 3 vols. small 8vo. 18s.
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“The Arabian Tales possess other charms to recommend them, besides the abundance of the marvellous and supernatural which they contain, namely, the vivid picture they present of the customs, manners, prejudices, and every thing in the slightest degree referring to the nations among whom the wondrous incidents they relate are supposed to have occurred. Will it not, then, be a sufficient recommendation of these volumes to state that they fall by no means short of their greatly admired predecessors in this respect? Indeed, several of these Tales are more than either works of fiction, or pictures of the customs, manners, &c. of the nations of which they treat. Some of them will be found to contain much excellent moral instruction and philosophical reflection. The imaginative and descriptive parts will be found equally interesting and beautiful.”