The Lounger: A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1785 and 1786. In Three Volumes, Volume 2A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand; and W. Creech, at Edinburgh, 1788 - 314 pages |
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Page 256 - ... me a good night. But, even were I more at liberty to indulge my focial difpofition than I unfortunately find myfelf, there are other reafons, no lefs powerful, which would prevent me from inviting my friends to my houfe. My wife, Sir, is abfolutely unfit for any kind of rational converfation. Bred from her infancy under an old maiden aunt, who had the management of her father's houfehold and country farm, fhe has no other ideas than what are accommodated to that ftation.
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Page 247 - I am a person of some consequence since my late journey to town, they indulge me a good deal in the disposal of my time, even though it sometimes runs a little cross to the regularity of theirs; only my father growls now and then ; but we don't mind that much. I seldom rise till near eleven, and generally breakfast in bed. I read the newspapers my brother sends down, all except the politics. I stroll out...
Page 190 - I had a sad headach with it all morning, but I kept that to myself. ' And do, my dear, (said she,) write sometimes to us poor moping creatures, in the country. But you won't have leisure to think of us ; you will be so happy, and so much amused.
Page 206 - ... finding faults in it ; I am neither nervous in my body, nor tremblingly alive in my mind ; one thing only plagues and vexes me, and plagues and vexes the whole family in which I live. The evil of which I complain, Mr. LoUNGER, is, I am told, one of the ' first of virtues' — the evil I complain of is Truth.