The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington: With Pictures of the Period in which She Lived, Volume 2Dodd, Mead,, 1892 |
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Page 105 - I have met with no disappointment with respect to my East India voyage, nor are my resolutions altered ; though at the same time, I must confess, it gives me some pain to think I am almost beginning the world at the age of thirty-one. Though I never had a day's sickness since I saw you, yet I am not that strong active man you once knew me. You scarcely can conceive how much eight years of disappointment, anguish, and study, have worn me down.
Page 109 - Faith ! Madam, I heartily wish to be rich, if it were only for this reason, to say without a blush how much I esteem you ; but alas ! I have many a fatigue to encounter before that happy time comes, when your poor old simple friend may again give a loose to the luxuriance of his nature, sitting by Kilmore fire-side, recount the various adventures of a hard-fought life, laugh over the follies of the day, join his flute to your harpsichord, and forget that ever he starved in those streets, where Butler...
Page 126 - Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."— I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.
Page 105 - Since I knew what it was to be a man this is a pleasure I have not known. I have passed my days among a parcel of cool, designing beings, and have contracted all their suspicious manner in my own behavior. I should actually be as unfit for the society of my friends at home as I detest that which I am obliged to partake of here.
Page 111 - Teach then, my dear Sir, to your son thrift and economy. Let his poor wandering uncle's example be placed before his eyes. I had learned from books to be disinterested and generous, before I was taught from experience the necessity of being prudent.
Page 74 - I have heard that illustrious scholar assert (and he never varied from the truth of fact) that he'. subsisted himself for a considerable space of time upon the scanty pittance of fourpence halfpenny per day.
Page 93 - ... at night to any casual wanderers, sometimes in cellars, among the riot and filth of the meanest and most profligate of the rabble ; and sometimes, when he had not money to support even the expenses of...
Page 35 - If, ye Powers divine ! Ye mark the movements of this nether world, And bring them to account, crush, crush those vipers, Who, singled out by a community To guard their rights, shall, for a grasp of ore. Or paltry office, sell them to the foe ! I
Page 113 - ... their misery. But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at the doors of the opulent? These...
Page 107 - I gave my heart from a motive of gratitude alone, when I was conscious of having bestowed it on much more disinterested principles. It is true, this conduct might have been simple enough ; but yourself must confess it was in character. Those who know me at all, know that I have always been actuated by different principles from the rest of mankind- and while none regarded the interest of his friend more, no man on earth regarded kis own less.