Vulgar words in A Book About Lawyers (Page 1)
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After Jefferys' fall the spacious and imposing mansion, where the _bon-vivants_ of the bar used to drink inordinately with the wits and buffoons of the London theatres, was occupied by Government; and there the Lords of the Admiralty had their offices until they moved to their quarters opposite Scotland Yard.
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'A barrister is like Balaam's ass, only speaking when he sees the angel,' was a familiar saying in the seventeenth century.
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They were the mock masque, each resembling an ape, each wearing a fantastic dress that heightened the hideous absurdity of his monkey's visage, each riding upon an ass, or small pony, and each of them throwing shells upon the crowd by way of a largess.
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Under the 'Merry Monarch' theatrical managers were especially anxious to please the inns, for they knew that no play would succeed which the lawyers had resolved to damn--that no actor could achieve popularity if the gallants of the Temple combined to laugh him down--that no company of performers could retain public favor when they had lost the countenance of law-colleges.
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I believe the administration was said, by all the _Blockheads_, to be made up of all the _Talents_ in the country.
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As pet buffoon of the tories about town, Mountfort was followed, at a considerable distance of time, by Estcourt--an actor who united wit and fine humor with irresistible powers of mimicry; and who contrived to acquire the respect and affectionate regard of many of those famous Whigs whom it was alike his pleasure and his business to render ridiculous.