The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 Seiten |
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... Sir J. B. did , to a learned profession , who allows this common , but egregious grammatical blunder , to appear in his page . A well - taught boy of twelve years old would know that whom cannot govern the verb would . The words " they ...
... Sir J. B. did , to a learned profession , who allows this common , but egregious grammatical blunder , to appear in his page . A well - taught boy of twelve years old would know that whom cannot govern the verb would . The words " they ...
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... Sir J. B. mentions two men with whom I had a slight acquaintance ; as I had with many others re- corded in his strange volumes ; but the two here alluded to were , Mr. Thoroton , and Sir John Bla- quiere , afterwards Lord de B. The ...
... Sir J. B. mentions two men with whom I had a slight acquaintance ; as I had with many others re- corded in his strange volumes ; but the two here alluded to were , Mr. Thoroton , and Sir John Bla- quiere , afterwards Lord de B. The ...
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... Sir J. B. expatiates , with astonishing minuteness of detail , and no small share of self - complacency , on the craft and mystery of Irish duelling . His whole account of duels , and the rules and practices of duellists , is matchless ...
... Sir J. B. expatiates , with astonishing minuteness of detail , and no small share of self - complacency , on the craft and mystery of Irish duelling . His whole account of duels , and the rules and practices of duellists , is matchless ...
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Or, Anecdotes Edward Mangin. A certain Sir Boyle Roche is represented by Sir J. B. as a blundering speaker in parliament , and a constant and unconscious utterer of bulls ; " and these , on one particular occasion , " adds Sir Jonah ...
Or, Anecdotes Edward Mangin. A certain Sir Boyle Roche is represented by Sir J. B. as a blundering speaker in parliament , and a constant and unconscious utterer of bulls ; " and these , on one particular occasion , " adds Sir Jonah ...
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... Sir J. B. enlarges , with great truth and fairness of encomium , on the talents , as an orator , of Dean Kir- was ; but insinuates that he was partly indebted for his sermons to the Huguenot preacher Saurin , styling K. an eloquent ...
... Sir J. B. enlarges , with great truth and fairness of encomium , on the talents , as an orator , of Dean Kir- was ; but insinuates that he was partly indebted for his sermons to the Huguenot preacher Saurin , styling K. an eloquent ...
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Seite 135 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Seite 120 - Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam...
Seite 137 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 136 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still...
Seite 153 - But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
Seite 52 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Seite 145 - I did never see before) ; and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look which is pleasing. Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts...
Seite 145 - I went upon the river : it raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King came by in his barge, going down towards the Downs to meet the Queen ; the Duke being gone yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Seite 149 - I home by coach, but met not one bonfire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the city at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
Seite 158 - W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before : for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it!