 Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane,...  Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature - Page 125by Thomas Green - 1810 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...more, at the destruction of the regal ' power.' And in a Letter from Paris to Mr. Eland, dated Oct. 19, 1765, he observes of the people there : — ' They...and strong scent; but Lord Chesterfield (see Oct. 5, 1796.) was still before him." Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature, [by Mr. Green of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...from mirth : laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins and bilboquets. Good folks, they have not time to laugh ! There is God and the king to be pulled...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane for having any belief left.' This was in the year 1765. ' The spavants,'... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...and be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the king...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left. But this is not my only crime : I have told... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...and be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the king...to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all,'are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left.... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...from mirth : laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins and bilboquets. Good folks, they have not time to laugh ! There is God and the king to be pulled...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane for having any belief left.' This was in the year 1765. ' The spatants,'... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left. But this is not my only crime: I have told... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left. But this is not my only crime: I have told... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left." Again, writing to the Hon. HS Conway, Oct.... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...be in no danger from mirth. Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilhoquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King...and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left. But this is not my only crime: I have told... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...disputes and whist T" To another correspondent, he says that " laughing is out of fashion at Paris. They have no time to laugh. — There is God and the...and women, one and . all, are devoutly employed in demolition. . . Mr. Hume is the only thing in the world which they believe implicitly, which they must... | |
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