The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Volume 6J. Mawman, 1816 |
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... affection and respect in which he always named the Duke of Devonshire , his unqualified assertion of the incorruptness of Shippen , and his own consistent and uniform conduct . Of his daily packet of letters , he usually opened his game ...
... affection and respect in which he always named the Duke of Devonshire , his unqualified assertion of the incorruptness of Shippen , and his own consistent and uniform conduct . Of his daily packet of letters , he usually opened his game ...
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... affection and veneration of all who approached him . By con- stantly delivering his reasons for every decree he made , the Court of Chancery became an instructive school of equity ; and his de- cisions were generally attended with such ...
... affection and veneration of all who approached him . By con- stantly delivering his reasons for every decree he made , the Court of Chancery became an instructive school of equity ; and his de- cisions were generally attended with such ...
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... affection ; especially as your behaviour has always been such , as rather to increase than diminish it . Don't ... affections are naturally very fixed and constant ; and if I had ever reason of complaint against you ( of which , by the ...
... affection ; especially as your behaviour has always been such , as rather to increase than diminish it . Don't ... affections are naturally very fixed and constant ; and if I had ever reason of complaint against you ( of which , by the ...
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... affectionate years of your youth together , and by that great softener and engager of hearts , mutual hardship . That it was in my power to ease it a little , I ac- count one of the most exquisite pleasures of my life . But enough of ...
... affectionate years of your youth together , and by that great softener and engager of hearts , mutual hardship . That it was in my power to ease it a little , I ac- count one of the most exquisite pleasures of my life . But enough of ...
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... affectionate brother , His JAMES THOMSON , ' Castle of Indolence , ' an allegorical poem in two cantos , esteemed by the best critics the most perfect and pleasing of all his compositions , had ap- peared in 1746. In the following five ...
... affectionate brother , His JAMES THOMSON , ' Castle of Indolence , ' an allegorical poem in two cantos , esteemed by the best critics the most perfect and pleasing of all his compositions , had ap- peared in 1746. In the following five ...
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Page 192 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 225 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Page 226 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning', I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, ' My Lord, ' Your Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant,
Page 398 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 225 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
Page 372 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 254 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 266 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, a cabinet so variously inlaid, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...
Page 280 - I call upon the honor of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Page 237 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.