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... month ( July , 1833 ) . I do not recollect that the historian mentions the connexion of his family with the Yorkes ( ? ) , of whom he would have been justly proud . Charles Yorke , who died at the moment of accepting the seals of ...
... month ( July , 1833 ) . I do not recollect that the historian mentions the connexion of his family with the Yorkes ( ? ) , of whom he would have been justly proud . Charles Yorke , who died at the moment of accepting the seals of ...
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... months . The second parliament in which he sate was prematurely dis- solved ( 1747 ) and as he was unable or unwilling to maintain a second contest for Southampton , the life of the senator expired in that dissolution . : The death of a ...
... months . The second parliament in which he sate was prematurely dis- solved ( 1747 ) and as he was unable or unwilling to maintain a second contest for Southampton , the life of the senator expired in that dissolution . : The death of a ...
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... months the office of my domestic tutor . His own words , which I shall here transcribe , inspire in his favour a sentiment of pity and esteem . " During my abode in my native county of Cum- berland , in quality of an indigent curate , I ...
... months the office of my domestic tutor . His own words , which I shall here transcribe , inspire in his favour a sentiment of pity and esteem . " During my abode in my native county of Cum- berland , in quality of an indigent curate , I ...
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... months after that event , in the spring of 1748 , the commercial ruin of her father , Mr. James Porten , was accomplished and declared . As his effects were not sold , nor the house evacuated , till the Christmas following , I enjoyed ...
... months after that event , in the spring of 1748 , the commercial ruin of her father , Mr. James Porten , was accomplished and declared . As his effects were not sold , nor the house evacuated , till the Christmas following , I enjoyed ...
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... months under the care of a trusty maid - servant . A strange nervous af- fection , which alternately contracted my legs and produced , without any visible symptoms , the most excruciating pain , was ineffectually opposed by the various ...
... months under the care of a trusty maid - servant . A strange nervous af- fection , which alternately contracted my legs and produced , without any visible symptoms , the most excruciating pain , was ineffectually opposed by the various ...
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Page 190 - June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 204 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 11 - It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Page 94 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.
Page 3 - ... latter, the Emperors of Germany and Kings of Spain, have threatened the liberty of the Old, and invaded the treasures of the New World. The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England ; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
Page 67 - His declamation was fashioned to the pomp and cadence of the old stage ; and he expressed the enthusiasm of poetry, rather than the feelings of nature. My ardour, which soon became conspicuous, seldom failed of procuring me a ticket. The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakspeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
Page 196 - Well, if the use be mine, can it concern one, Whether the name belong to Pope or Vernon?
Page 68 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.
Page 115 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 40 - I was admitted to the society of the fellows, and fondly expected that some questions of literature would be the amusing and instructive topics of their discourse. Their conversation stagnated in a round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal: their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth ; and their constitutional toasts were not expressive of the most lively loyalty for the house of Hanover.