The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 |
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... told me the following fact . He , and some other young Irishmen , having assembled in a room at C.'s lodg- ings in the Temple , amused themselves by quoting , with enthusiastic admiration , various passages from a newly published poem ...
... told me the following fact . He , and some other young Irishmen , having assembled in a room at C.'s lodg- ings in the Temple , amused themselves by quoting , with enthusiastic admiration , various passages from a newly published poem ...
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... told me that he was present one day when Gold- smith , in a circle of good company , began with , " & c . George Langton could not with truth have told this story , he being barely three years old in 1774 , when Goldsmith died . It ...
... told me that he was present one day when Gold- smith , in a circle of good company , began with , " & c . George Langton could not with truth have told this story , he being barely three years old in 1774 , when Goldsmith died . It ...
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... told they fight for their God , their country , and them- selves . The principle of the partition of lands among them should be inculcated ; and , I think , by the French general ; this would be speaking at once to their feelings and ...
... told they fight for their God , their country , and them- selves . The principle of the partition of lands among them should be inculcated ; and , I think , by the French general ; this would be speaking at once to their feelings and ...
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... told me , -and he was an old experienced soldier , that no troops could possibly behave better than the French did when they attacked him . They were obliged , he ob- served , to advance in column , of which formation he took advantage ...
... told me , -and he was an old experienced soldier , that no troops could possibly behave better than the French did when they attacked him . They were obliged , he ob- served , to advance in column , of which formation he took advantage ...
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... told me this story , in reply to an observation of mine , that when once in a state of dotage , men hardly ever , or never , retrieved their intellectual powers . Mr. Harley , afterwards Lord Oxford , being threatened with a trial for ...
... told me this story , in reply to an observation of mine , that when once in a state of dotage , men hardly ever , or never , retrieved their intellectual powers . Mr. Harley , afterwards Lord Oxford , being threatened with a trial for ...
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Strona 135 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Strona 120 - Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam...
Strona 137 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Strona 136 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still...
Strona 153 - But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
Strona 52 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Strona 145 - I did never see before) ; and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look which is pleasing. Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts...
Strona 145 - I went upon the river : it raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King came by in his barge, going down towards the Downs to meet the Queen ; the Duke being gone yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Strona 149 - I home by coach, but met not one bonfire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the city at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
Strona 158 - W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before : for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it!