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 1E. Jeffery and son, 1822 |
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The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas Hanbury Williams -, Band 1 Horace Walpole Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |
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ambition Ballad Bath's blest Britannia's brother character CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS charming Clio Colonel Countess court cry'd damn'd daughter dear disgrace Doddington Dragoon Duchess Duchess of Manchester Duke of Argyle Duke of Newcastle e'er Earl of Bath Earl of Darlington Ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fate father foes friends George Gower Grace hand Harry Vane hate heart Hecate honest hope Irish King King's Lady laugh live Lord Bath lordship's lov'd mankind Marlborough MARLBOROUGH-STREET Marquis of Tweedale married minister Muse ne'er never o'er once Orford PALL-MALL Parliament party patriot peer Pelham pow'r pride Pultney regiment repent rhyme RIGHT HONOURABLE Rogues sing Sir Charles Hanbury Sir John Rushout Sir Robert Walpole song Stanhope statesman tell temper thee thing thou thousand pounds Tories truth twas undone vex'd Whigs Whilst wife Winnington Written Wyndham
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Seite 143 - * whom he had debauched without loving, and who had been debauched without loving him, so well as either Lord Harrington or Lord Hervey, who both pretended to her first favours, had no other charms than being a maid of honour, who was willing to cease to be so upon the first opportunity.
Seite 23 - There are many sentiments in the character of Lady Betty Modish that I may almost say were originally her own, or only dressed with a little more care than when they negligently fell from her lively humor.
Seite 35 - Her breaking face foretold her breaking heart. At Leicester House her passion first began, And Nanty Lowther was a pretty man : But when the Princess did to Kew remove, She could not bear the absence of her love : Away she flew...
Seite 19 - Sir Robert had artfully prevented the last. Before he quitted the king, he persuaded his majesty to insist, as a preliminary to the change, that Mr. Pulteney should go into the house of peers, his great credit lying in the other house ; and I remember my father's action when he returned from court and told me what he had done — " I have turned the key of the closet on him" — making that motion with his hand.
Seite 23 - His hat's well cock'd, his perriwig's well dress'd : He rolls his stockings still, white gloves he wears, And in the boxes with the beaux appears ; His eyes through wrinkled corners cast their rays ; Still he bows graceful, still soft things he says : And still rememb'ring that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees, and struts along.
Seite 52 - ... show it, Then don't be ashamed, You can never be blamed, — For a prophet is often a poet ! But why don't you make one yourself, then...
Seite 23 - Who serv'd through all the glorious wars in Flanders; Frank and good-natur'd, of an honest heart, Loving to act the steady, friendly part: None led through youth a gayer life than he, Cheerful in converse, smart in repartee: Sweet was his night, and joyful was his day, He din'd with Walpole, and with Oldfield lay...
Seite 11 - could so great a general be so abandoned ?" " Oh ! Madam," said the Bishop, " do not you know what a brimstone of a wife he had...
Seite 85 - Then enlarge on his cunning and wit : Say, how he harangu'd at the Fountain;* Say, how the old patriots were bit, And a mouse was produc'd by a mountain. Then say how he mark'd the new year, By increasing our taxes, and stocks : Then say how he chang'd to a peer, Fit companion for Edgecumbe'f
Seite 29 - A creature, The wonderful'st of all the works of nature: Hither it came from Holland, where 'twas caught (I should not say it came, for it was brought); Tomorrow we're to have it at Crane-court, And 'tis a reptile of so strange a sort, That if 'tis cut in two, it is not dead...