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... wrote . Of a society so vast , busy , brilliant , it is impossible in four brief chapters to give a complete notion ; but we may peep here and there into that bygone world of the Georges , see what they and their Courts were like ...
... wrote . Of a society so vast , busy , brilliant , it is impossible in four brief chapters to give a complete notion ; but we may peep here and there into that bygone world of the Georges , see what they and their Courts were like ...
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... wrote prodigious quantities- were quite dangerous in their powers of fascination . He kept his sentimentalities for his Germans and his queen . With us English , he never chose to be familiar . He has been accused of avarice , yet he ...
... wrote prodigious quantities- were quite dangerous in their powers of fascination . He kept his sentimentalities for his Germans and his queen . With us English , he never chose to be familiar . He has been accused of avarice , yet he ...
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... wrote savage letters about him home to members of her family . So , driven out from the Royal presence , the Prince and Princess set up for themselves in Leicester Fields , " where , " says Walpole , " the most promising of the young ...
... wrote savage letters about him home to members of her family . So , driven out from the Royal presence , the Prince and Princess set up for themselves in Leicester Fields , " where , " says Walpole , " the most promising of the young ...
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... wrote the story had something diabolical about him : the terrible verses which Pope wrote respecting Hervey , in one of his own moods of almost fiendish malignity , I fear are true . I am frightened as I look back into the past , and ...
... wrote the story had something diabolical about him : the terrible verses which Pope wrote respecting Hervey , in one of his own moods of almost fiendish malignity , I fear are true . I am frightened as I look back into the past , and ...
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... wrote " Night Thoughts , " and discoursed on the splendours of the stars , the glories of Heaven , and utter vanities of this world - actually burst out crying in his pulpit because the Defender of the Faith and dispenser of bishoprics ...
... wrote " Night Thoughts , " and discoursed on the splendours of the stars , the glories of Heaven , and utter vanities of this world - actually burst out crying in his pulpit because the Defender of the Faith and dispenser of bishoprics ...
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Página 339 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down...
Página 329 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 264 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 188 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Página 149 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Página 226 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Página 222 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Página 226 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out...
Página 88 - Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 190 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.