Showing posts with label aristocracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aristocracy. Show all posts
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Daily Dose
From The British Essayists, with Prefaces Biographical, Historical, and Critical, by Robert Lynam
SHOULD
"Should he be introduced into the society of nobles and legislators, he will still find dogs and horses, with all their concomitant sports and amusements, the favourite topics of discourse. Literature would be voted dulness; morality, preaching; philosophy, nonsense; and religion, hypocrisy."
From Volume 23, Knox's Essays, # 102, On the Present State of Conversation
Friday, November 29, 2019
Daily Dose
From Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford
SHE
"She longed for a reason to get rid of her cousin."
From Chapter 14, The Affair of Choiseul-Romanet
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