A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End of George I's Reign: Being a Continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's Work ; Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes; and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads ; Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons, Band 1W. Richardson, 1806 |
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Seite 250 - When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war; Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimproved away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blush'd before.
Seite 352 - Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.
Seite 84 - Dr. Burnet was extravagantly fond of tobacco and writing ; to enjoy both at the same time, he perforated the broad brim of his large hat, and, putting his long pipe through it, puffed and wrote, and wrote and puffed again.
Seite 105 - A dean and prebendary Had once a new vagary, And were at doubtful strife, sir, Who led the better life, sir, And was the better man, And was the better man. The dean he said, that truly, Since Bluff was so unruly, He'd prove it to his face, sir, That he had the most grace, sir, And so the fight began, &c.
Seite 290 - Painters of history," said he, " make the dead live, and do not begin to live themselves till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live...
Seite 42 - He was the finest gentleman in the voluptuous court of Charles the Second, and in the gloomy one of King William. He had as much wit as his first master, or his contemporaries, Buckingham and Rochester ; without the royal want of feeling, the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought.
Seite 259 - I sing of a duel in Epsom befel *Twixt fa sol la D'Urfey and sol la mi Bell : But why do I mention the scribbling brother ? For naming the one, you may guess at the other. Betwixt them there happened a terrible clutter ; Bell set up the loud pipes, and D'Urfey did sputter.
Seite 105 - twas no wonder, Since Gods the Dean had three, Sir, — And more by two than he, Sir, For he had got but one.
Seite 375 - He kept three bottles, that hung to his girdle ; viz., for strong and small beer, and milk: his shoes are still preserved...
Seite 281 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.