Selected Essays, Volume 2Scribner and Welford, 1879 - Biography |
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... story of Henry VIII . sending for Edward Montague , a member who was supposed to have considerable influence , and thus apostrophising him : " Ha ! man ! will they not suffer my bill to pass ? ' and laying his hand on Mon- tague's head ...
... story of Henry VIII . sending for Edward Montague , a member who was supposed to have considerable influence , and thus apostrophising him : " Ha ! man ! will they not suffer my bill to pass ? ' and laying his hand on Mon- tague's head ...
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... story authenticates the fact of a noble family having seven : a Whig Earl had as many when ( in 1830 ) he patriotically bartered his boroughs for a marquisate , to be followed by a dukedom.2 The counties , says Mr. Massey , were in the ...
... story authenticates the fact of a noble family having seven : a Whig Earl had as many when ( in 1830 ) he patriotically bartered his boroughs for a marquisate , to be followed by a dukedom.2 The counties , says Mr. Massey , were in the ...
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... story is told by Dr. King . Sir Robert Walpole , meet- ing a member of the Opposition in the Court of Re- quests , took him aside and offered him a bank bill of 2,000l . , which he put into his hands , for his vote . The member replied ...
... story is told by Dr. King . Sir Robert Walpole , meet- ing a member of the Opposition in the Court of Re- quests , took him aside and offered him a bank bill of 2,000l . , which he put into his hands , for his vote . The member replied ...
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... story that when the company were speculating on what lost or missing production was most to be re- gretted , and one named the lost works of Livy , another those of Tacitus , Pitt at once declared for a speech of Bolingbroke . All ...
... story that when the company were speculating on what lost or missing production was most to be re- gretted , and one named the lost works of Livy , another those of Tacitus , Pitt at once declared for a speech of Bolingbroke . All ...
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... story of Dr. Johnson's exercising a similar power over a distinguished company at Mrs. Garrick's , who presumed to smile at his saying that the woman had a bottom of good sense . ' ' He glanced sternly round and called out in a strong ...
... story of Dr. Johnson's exercising a similar power over a distinguished company at Mrs. Garrick's , who presumed to smile at his saying that the woman had a bottom of good sense . ' ' He glanced sternly round and called out in a strong ...
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Page 103 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 57 - I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Page 90 - The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
Page 36 - Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies...
Page 279 - No one shall run on the Sabbath Day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. ' No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath Day. ' No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or Fasting Day.
Page 443 - Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Page 100 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 70 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 101 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 377 - See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If dreams yet flatter, once again attend, Hear Lydiat's life, and Galileo's end.