Devereux — Complete. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон

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СКАЧАТЬ ink, and a scrap of paper, ornamented with sundry paintings of hearts and torches, on which were scrawled several lines in a hand so large and round that I could not avoid seeing the first verse, though I turned away my eyes as quickly as possible; that verse, to the best of my memory, ran thus: “Say, lovely Lesbia, when thy swain.” Upon the ground lay a box of patches, a periwig, and two or three well thumbed books of songs. Such was the reception-room of Beau Fielding, one indifferently well calculated to exhibit the propensities of a man, half bully, half fribble; a poet, a fop, a fighter, a beauty, a walking museum of all odd humours, and a living shadow of a past renown. “There are changes in wit as in fashion,” said Sir William Temple, and he proceeds to instance a nobleman who was the greatest wit of the court of Charles I., and the greatest dullard in that of Charles II.13 But Heavens! how awful are the revolutions of coxcombry! what a change from Beau Fielding the Beauty, to Beau Fielding the Oddity!

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      In his Commentary on the account of China by two Travellers.

      2

      “O mare, O litus, verum secretumque Movoetov, quam multa dictatis, quam multa invenitis!”—PLINIUS.

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      “But should there chance any occasion or necessity, one may wear better though still decorous garments.”

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      Thank Heaven, for the honour of literature, nous avons change tout cela!—ED.

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      An antiquated word in use for puppet-shows.

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      See “Spectator,” No. 14, for a letter from this unfortunate under-sexton.

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      Whig ladies patched on one side of the cheek, Tories on the other.

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      Lord Bolingbroke tells us that it was the main end of Harley’s administration to marry his son to this lady. Thus is the fate of nations a bundle made up of a thousand little private schemes.

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      In the “Arcadia,” that museum of oddities and beauties.

      10

      “Tatler.”

      11

      This seems to corroborate the suspicion entertained of the identity of Colonel Cleland with the Will Honeycomb of the “Spectator.”

      12

      “The Greek wants an ablative, the Italians a dative, I a nominative.”

      13

      The Earl of Norwich.

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1

In his Commentary on the account of China by two Travellers.

2

“O mare, O litus, verum secretumque Movoetov, quam multa dictatis, quam multa invenitis!”—PLINIUS.

3

“But should there chance any occasion or necessity, one may wear better though still decorous garments.”

4

Thank Heaven, for the honour of literature, nous avons change tout cela!—ED.

5

An antiquated word in use for puppet-shows.

6

See “Spectator,” No. 14, for a letter from this unfortunate under-sexton.

7

Whig ladies patched on one side of the cheek, Tories on the other.

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