 I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.  The North American Review - Sayfa 68editör: - 1848Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1880 - 486 sayfa
...the faro-bank or a well-matched rubber of whist.1 Gentlemen were welcome to go on losing as long as "Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the management, and, not unnaturally, died poor. The managers of Brooks's have courteously... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1880 - 670 sayfa
...house was built on the site of the old one in 1778, and not long afterwards Brooks, '• Who, nuv.-fil in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the management, and, not unnaturally, died poor. The Managers of Brooks's have courteously... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1881 - 642 sayfa
...shall send, if not his plate, his cooks, And know I've brought the bent champagne from Brooks — From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit...vulgar trade, Exults to trust and blushes to be paid. Deep play was removed at once from White's to Almack's, not without arousing some jealousy in the older... | |
 | John Ashton - 1886 - 344 sayfa
...by that " liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant bill ; Who, nurs'd in Clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid." Among the members of this club were the Prince of Wales, and, of course, his fidus Achates, Sheridan,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1890 - 282 sayfa
...Brookes, From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill : Who, nurs'd in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade ; Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid — ' built and opened the present club-house in St. James's Street, and thither the members of Almack's... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 sayfa
...but afterwards by Brooks, a wine merchant and money lender,1 described by Richard Tickell(1 780)a3 Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit,...vulgar trade, Exults to trust and blushes to be paid. The present house was built at Brooks's expense (from the designs of Henry Holland, architect), and... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 sayfa
...called : — Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant bill : Who, nurs'd in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid ! ' Having lost a very monstrous sum of money last night,' writes one of Selwyn's correspondents, 'if... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 sayfa
...Hon. Charles James Fox, partridge-shooting, to the Hon. John Townshend, cruising,' he is called : — Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant bill : Who, nurs'd in club?, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid ! ' Having lost a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1897 - 422 sayfa
...following lines:— "And, know, I've bought the best champagne from Brookes. From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust and blushes to be paid." * On February 11, Burke brought forward hie scheme for securing the independence of Parliament, and... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1899 - 500 sayfa
...well-matehed rubber of whist.1 Gentlemen were weleome to go on losing as long as " Who, nursed in elubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the management, and, not unnaturally, died poor. The managers of Brooks's have eourteously... | |
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