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Strona 24
... took his seat in the upper House , as Earl of Bath , in the year 1742 ; and , from that time , his sun was set in the political hemisphere . His wife's sister * married my grandfather , Francis These two sisters had two other sisters ...
... took his seat in the upper House , as Earl of Bath , in the year 1742 ; and , from that time , his sun was set in the political hemisphere . His wife's sister * married my grandfather , Francis These two sisters had two other sisters ...
Strona 29
... took our several names of GEORGE and CARO- LINE . " ( Posthumous Pamphlets by COLMAN , the eldert . ) * " There , " according to the context , evidently means Flo- rence : my father had forgot that " England " was the imme- diate ...
... took our several names of GEORGE and CARO- LINE . " ( Posthumous Pamphlets by COLMAN , the eldert . ) * " There , " according to the context , evidently means Flo- rence : my father had forgot that " England " was the imme- diate ...
Strona 56
... city , and it now forms an invaluable addition to the choice treasures of this indefatigable collector of manuscripts , and autograph letters . " - ( New Literary Gazette . ) On my mother's death , my father took me with 56 RANDOM RECORDS .
... city , and it now forms an invaluable addition to the choice treasures of this indefatigable collector of manuscripts , and autograph letters . " - ( New Literary Gazette . ) On my mother's death , my father took me with 56 RANDOM RECORDS .
Strona 57
George Colman. On my mother's death , my father took me with him , from his house in town , to his villa at Rich- mond , in Surrey . During the many years he enjoy'd this retirement , he used repeatedly to quote , in reference to it ...
George Colman. On my mother's death , my father took me with him , from his house in town , to his villa at Rich- mond , in Surrey . During the many years he enjoy'd this retirement , he used repeatedly to quote , in reference to it ...
Strona 58
... took with the paternal character , I beseech him to make some allowance for the levity of youth ; -let him remember that I have now taken shame to myself for it ; and I do assure him , that I never deliberately infringed the fifth ...
... took with the paternal character , I beseech him to make some allowance for the levity of youth ; -let him remember that I have now taken shame to myself for it ; and I do assure him , that I never deliberately infringed the fifth ...
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Strona 190 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Strona 122 - ... his mannerism prevailed ; still he tapped his snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage.
Strona 206 - ... he comes flounce into bed, dead as a salmon into a fishmonger's basket; his feet cold as ice, his breath hot as a furnace, and his hands and his face as greasy as his flannel night-cap.
Strona 122 - Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens. Mauled as I had been by Johnson, Gibbon poured balm upon my bruises by condescending, once or twice in the course of the evening, to talk with me : the great historian was light and playful, suiting his matter to the capacity of the boy ; but it was done more...
Strona 241 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aiery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for 't : these are now the fashion ; and so berattle the common stages (so they call them), that many, wearing rapiers, are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come thither.
Strona 111 - Hey presto cockalorum!' cried the Doctor, and lo, on uncovering the shillings, which had been dispersed each beneath a separate hat, they were all found congregated under one. I was no politician at five years old, and therefore might not have wondered at the sudden revolution which brought England, France, and Spain all under one crown; but, as also I was no conjuror, it amazed me beyond measure From that time, whenever the Doctor came to visit my father, 'I plucked his gown to share the good man's...
Strona 188 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Strona 223 - I found myself then as incapable of writing such an epilogue as I should be now of speaking it. The jingle of rhyme and the language of fiction would but ill suit my present feelings.
Strona 46 - When I consider, what ado is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many Years are spent in it, and what a Noise and Business it makes to no Purpose...
Strona 114 - This prop to his person I once saw standing by his bedside, ready dressed in a handsome silk stocking, with a polished shoe and gold buckle, awaiting the owner's getting up : it had a kind of tragicomical appearance, and I leave to inveterate wags the ingenuity of punning upon a Foote in bed and a leg out of it.