Such a set of tittle tattle, prittle prattle visitants! Oh Dear! I am so sick of the ceremony and fuss of these fall lall people! ...So much dressing--chitchat--complimentary nonsense--In short, a country town is my detestation. All the conversation is scandal, all the attention, dress, and almost all the heart, folly, envy, and censoriousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hetty [Burney's sister] set down to the harpsichord and sung ... we departed this life of anguish and misery, and rested our weary... souls in the Elysian field--my papa's study--there, freed from the noise and bustle of the world enjoyed the harmony of chattering--and the melody of music!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like... dancing dogs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.... 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic--a desire to purify and preserve--...to set oneself apart--somehow--from the river flowing onward to the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a ...bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »