The Works, of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ...: From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex [and Others], Band 2E. Jeffery and son, 1822 |
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... , " With the sex I have sworn still to keep up the quarrel . " I thought it a joke , ' till by writing to you , I have prov'd his resentment , alas ! but too true . SIR CHARLES'S REPLY . I'LL not believe that Phœbus did B 2 19.
... , " With the sex I have sworn still to keep up the quarrel . " I thought it a joke , ' till by writing to you , I have prov'd his resentment , alas ! but too true . SIR CHARLES'S REPLY . I'LL not believe that Phœbus did B 2 19.
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... keeping . This slipp'ry tenure calls him forth , At more expense then quell'd the north , So late in life to travel ; At mighty feasts , of mighty things , With princes set , expecting kings To talk - and plots unravel . Not Gallic ...
... keeping . This slipp'ry tenure calls him forth , At more expense then quell'd the north , So late in life to travel ; At mighty feasts , of mighty things , With princes set , expecting kings To talk - and plots unravel . Not Gallic ...
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... keep ; But when th ' inverted year wears winter's frown , My coach is order'd , and I drive to town ; There dash into a stream of new delight , Enjoy my friends by day , my nymph by night . Till morn , sometimes , a social glass I take ...
... keep ; But when th ' inverted year wears winter's frown , My coach is order'd , and I drive to town ; There dash into a stream of new delight , Enjoy my friends by day , my nymph by night . Till morn , sometimes , a social glass I take ...
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... keep , Let Love be silent and Ambition sleep ; For Clora , let thy breast no passion feel , And Sands * unenvy'd hug th ' exchequer seal . Since , dearest Patron , you've increas'd my store , I will be happier , and I'll spend the more ...
... keep , Let Love be silent and Ambition sleep ; For Clora , let thy breast no passion feel , And Sands * unenvy'd hug th ' exchequer seal . Since , dearest Patron , you've increas'd my store , I will be happier , and I'll spend the more ...
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... keep , " know any thing against him , let them repair to " the Secret Committee , where they may depend 66 upon receiving civil usage , a greedy and patient " hearing ; and all other the best encouragement . " This , gentlemen , is what ...
... keep , " know any thing against him , let them repair to " the Secret Committee , where they may depend 66 upon receiving civil usage , a greedy and patient " hearing ; and all other the best encouragement . " This , gentlemen , is what ...
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Seite 183 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Seite 103 - As these are useless when the sun is set: So those, but when more glorious Reason shines. Reason should judge in all; in reason's eye, That sedentary shadow travels hard. But such our gravitation to the wrong...
Seite 148 - Compos'd his frame ; admir'd in every state, In private amiable, in public great, Gentle in power, but daring in disgrace, His love was liberty, his wish was peace. Such was the man that...
Seite 191 - In spite of outward blemishes, she shone, For humour fam'd, and humour all her own. Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod, Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod. Original in spirit and in ease, She pleas'd by hiding all attempts to please. No comic actress ever yet could raise, On humour's base, more merit or more praise.
Seite 43 - Rigby; the first of whom did not deign to notice him; but he must come to it. You would have died to see Newcastle's pitiful and distressed figure, — nobody went near him : he tried to flatter people, that were too busy to mind him ; in short, he was quite disconcerted; his treachery used to be so sheathed in folly, that he was never out of countenance ; but it is plain he grows old. To finish his confusion and anxiety, George Selwyn...
Seite 114 - He had early in his life announced his claim to wit, and the women believed in it. He had besides given himself out for a man of great intrigue, with as slender pretensions ; yet the women believed in that too — one should have thought they had been more competent judges of merit in that particular! It was not his fault if he had not wit; nothing exceeded his efforts in that point; and though they were far from producing the wit, they at least amply yielded the applause he aimed at. He was so accustomed...
Seite 181 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is...
Seite 242 - Fox always spoke to the question ; Pitt to the passions. Fox, to carry the question ; Pitt to raise himself. Fox pointed out, Pitt lashed the errors of his antagonists. Pitt's talents were likely to make him soonest ; Fox's to keep him First Minister longest.
Seite 51 - ... of his genius evaporate by the process ; for though his first view of the question would be a wide one, and clear withal, when he came to exercise the subtlety of his disquisitorial powers upon it, he would so ingeniously dissect and break it into fractions, that as an object, when looked upon too intently for a length of time, grows misty and confused, so would the question under his discussion, when the humour took him to be hypercritical.
Seite 78 - ... him, in a manner to offend the steady old Whigs ; and his jolly way of laughing at his own want of principles had revolted all the graver sort, who thought deficiency of honesty too sacred and profitable a commodity to be profaned and turned into ridicule.