Brighton: Its History, Its Follies, and Its FashionsChapman & Hall, Limited, 1909 - 249 pages |
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Page 14 - ... a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In another place at his inn, the master of the house, as the king was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the fire-side, kneeled down, and kissed his hand, privately, saying that he would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was going.
Page 228 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Page 59 - To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw, To swing upon a gate, to ride a straw, To play at push-pin with dull brother peers, To belch out catches in a porter's ears, To reign the monarch of a midnight cell, To be the gaping chairman's oracle; Whilst, in most blessed union, rogue and whore Clap hands, huzza, and hiccup out, 'Encore;' Whilst gray Authority, who slumbers there In robes of watchman's fur, gives up his chair; With midnight howl to bay the...
Page 23 - ... feet. I suppose this was a necessary precaution against storms, that a man should not be blown out of his bed into New England, Barbary, or God knows where.
Page 87 - She saw, with the creative eye of fancy, the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers. She saw herself the object of attention to tens and to scores of them at present unknown. She saw all the glories of the camp: its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet...
Page 110 - He did it very skilfully, and wanted all the ladies to attempt it. The girls and I excused ourselves on account of our short sight ; but Lady Downshire hit a fiddler in the dining-room, Miss Johnstone a door and Bloomfield the ceiling.
Page 87 - She saw herself the object of attention to tens and to scores of them at present unknown. She saw all the glories of the camp : its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet ; and to complete the view, she saw herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.
Page 184 - Groan 1. The Brighton railway ; in a slow train ; a carriage crowded as full as it would hold ; a sick lady smelling of aether; a healthy gentleman smelling of brandy ; the thermometer at 102° in the shade, and I not in the shade, but exposed to the full glare of the sun from noon till half after two, the effect of which is that my white trowsers have been scorched into a pair of very serviceable nankeens.
Page 48 - The Pavilion at Brighton is like a collection of stone pumpkins and pepper-boxes. It seems as if the genius of architecture had at once the dropsy and the megrims.
Page 192 - It is the fashion to run down George IV, but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton ! One of the best of physicians our city has ever known, is kind, cheerful, merry Doctor Brighton!