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... Writings .. ....... Lord Lyttelton . 207 Comparative Merit of Swift and Addison . Lord Lyttelton . 212 Comparative Merit of English and French Poets . " The same Subject ....... Lord Lyttelton . 217 An Absolute and Limited Monarchy ...
... Writings .. ....... Lord Lyttelton . 207 Comparative Merit of Swift and Addison . Lord Lyttelton . 212 Comparative Merit of English and French Poets . " The same Subject ....... Lord Lyttelton . 217 An Absolute and Limited Monarchy ...
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... writing correctly . He was a most liberal patron of wit and learning , wheresoever they were found ; and , out of his love of those talents , would readily pardon those who had employed them against himself ; rightly judg- ing , that by ...
... writing correctly . He was a most liberal patron of wit and learning , wheresoever they were found ; and , out of his love of those talents , would readily pardon those who had employed them against himself ; rightly judg- ing , that by ...
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... writing . She played admirably upon various instruments of music , and accompanied them with a voice pecu- liarly sweet . What an agreeable picture does this history of the earliest years of lady Jane Grey present to our fancy ! Though ...
... writing . She played admirably upon various instruments of music , and accompanied them with a voice pecu- liarly sweet . What an agreeable picture does this history of the earliest years of lady Jane Grey present to our fancy ! Though ...
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... writing with equal ease and dignity . Sudden , however , and violent in all her attachments ; because her heart was warm and unsuspicious . Impatient of contradiction ; be- cause she had been accustomed from her infancy to be treated as ...
... writing with equal ease and dignity . Sudden , however , and violent in all her attachments ; because her heart was warm and unsuspicious . Impatient of contradiction ; be- cause she had been accustomed from her infancy to be treated as ...
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... writing the history of a female reign , all contemporary ́authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of counte- nance , and elegance of shape , of which the human form is capable . Her hair was black , though , ac- cording to ...
... writing the history of a female reign , all contemporary ́authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of counte- nance , and elegance of shape , of which the human form is capable . Her hair was black , though , ac- cording to ...
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Page 254 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 77 - I am in presence either of father or mother ; whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry, or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think...
Page 257 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast ! O strange ! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Page 246 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 241 - Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 173 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 141 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Page 256 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Page 96 - The fame of this princess, though it has surmounted the prejudices both of faction and of bigotry, yet lies still exposed to another prejudice, which is more durable, because more natural ; and which, according to the different views in which we survey her, is capable either of exalting beyond measure, or diminishing the lustre of her character.