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Where, in the name of truth and honesty, is there a female, from twelve to eighty, who can be displeased with a naked man?
The Rambler’s Magazine, or Fashionable Emporium of Polite Literature. 1 (1822), p.342
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French novels - exciting poetry - questionable works of imagination - dread sounds! - How many a soul has been blighted by their poison - beneath their influence how many a heart, once pure and spotless, is tainted with festering sore disease.
Caroline Grey, ‘Sybil Lennard’ (1846), II.122
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There is as much difference between the Aristocratic Mind and the Working Class Mind, as there is between the gew-gaw frippery and finery of a fashionable milliner’s show-room, and the stupendous though rugged grandeur of the Alpine mountains!
GWM Reynolds, ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, first series (1848-50), VI.189
Jocelyn Loftus in Dr Maravelli’s laboratory. WH Thwaits, in GWM Reynolds’ ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-52), VIII.153
The Murder of Sellis. WH Thwaits, in GWM Reynolds’s ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-52), VIII.273
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Nineteenth-century detox: ‘I went down to the sea-side—made a vow to leave off drinking a single thing in the shape of alcohol till dinner-time—and then only six glasses of wine.’
GWM Reynolds, ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-52), VIII.291
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‘[I]t isn’t my habit to dress over well except on a Sunday; and then I come out spicy’
GWM Reynolds, ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-52), VIII.245
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Jocelyn’s prompt impulse was to rush to his aid and lift the fallen Prince: but at the same moment his Royal Highness threw up the contents of his stomach all over himself and the carpet
GWM Reynolds, ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-52), VIII.20
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And I now regard the Duke of Cumberland as a perfect ourang-outang of ugliness in comparison with this Adonis of a Jocelyn,” observed Julia, with a gentle sigh.
GWM Reynolds, ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-52), VII.195
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the magnificent amplitude of the lady’s bosom seemed to swell as if each glowing globe must burst from the corset that imprisoned them.
GWM Reynolds, ‘The Mysteries of the Court of London’, second series (1850-1852), VII.108
