Category: Humour
Fond as I am of greatness and her charms, Elate with prospects of my rising name, Push'd into place,--a place I ne'er expected, My bounding heart leapt in my feeble breast. And ecstasies entranc'd my slender brain.-- But yet, ere this I hop'd more solid gains, As my low purse...
----Thy toast, Monsieur, Pray, why that solemn phiz:-- Art thou, too, balancing 'twixt right and wrong? Hast thou a thought so mean as to give up Thy present good, for promise i...
1. Chapter 1Fond as I am of greatness and her charms, Elate with prospects of my rising name, Push'd into place,--a place I ne'er expected, My bounding heart leapt in my feeble breast. And...
2. Chapter 2_The scene changes to a large dining room. The table furnished with bowls, bottles, glasses, and cards.----The Group appear sitting round in a restless attitude. In one corner o...