Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Band 3R. Bentley, 1836 |
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Seite 234 - Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Seite 254 - ... its natural and accustomed support, a scheme for disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward ; and for allotting to the Prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Seite 115 - Participem qui te secreti fecit honesti : Carus erit Verri, qui Verrem tempore, quo vult, Accusare potest. Tanti tibi non sit opaci Omnis arena Tagi quodque in mare volvitur aurum...
Seite 319 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Seite 294 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Seite 250 - Give forked counsel; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it up; these men, He knew, would thrive with their humility. And for his part he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee; when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a cecchine!
Seite 225 - In vain should such example be ; if they, Things of ignoble or of savage mood, Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay May temper it to bear, — it is but for a day.
Seite 326 - Hardwicke describes a Cabinet Council in 1737, at which the Archbishop of Canterbury was present, as well as the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole. What is still more curious, Bolingbroke, writing to tell the Bishop of Bristol, then Lord Privy Seal and a plenipotentiary at Utrecht, that the queen desires to make him Bishop of London, consoles him for the change by the assurance that as the head of the diocese of London he will keep his seat in...
Seite 133 - His ordinary beverage at table was only composed of a sort of lemonade, which he dignified with the name of cup ; though a monk of La Trappe might have drunk it without any infraction of his monastic vow.