Catalogue of a Selection from the Stowe Manuscripts Exhibited in the King's Library in the British Museum

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order of the Trustees, 1883 - 83 стор.
 

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Сторінка 81 - At last to follies youth could scarce defend, It grows their age's prudence to pretend ; Asham'd to own they gave delight before, Reduc'd to feign it when they give no more. As hags hold sabbaths less for joy than spite, So these their merry miserable night ; Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide, And haunt the places where their honour died.
Сторінка 51 - GENTLEMEN, The army is now at North Hampton moving every day nearer to you. If you disband not wee may be a mutuall succour each to other : but if you disperse you make yourselues and the country a pray. You shall hear daily fro Yor Seruant, J.
Сторінка 82 - S' Cyr, 19 Oct., 1709. Fr. f. 42. 25. Receipt from Alexander Pope to the Hon. Mrs. Granville for two guineas, " being the first payment to the subscription for the Translation of Homer's Iliads,
Сторінка 80 - I will give you eight dinners a-week, and a whole half dozen of pint bottles of good French wine at your lodgings, a thing you could never expect to arrive at, and every year a suit of fourteenpenny stuff, that should not be worn out at the right side; and a chair costs but six-pence a job; and you shall have catholicity as much as you please, and the catholic Dean of St Patrick's, as old again as I, for your confessor.
Сторінка 55 - ... hand, that you may likewise know it is your part to obey punctually my orders, instead of putting yourself to the trouble of finding reasons why you do not do so, as I find in your last of the 12th current.
Сторінка 19 - On the right side, or board, there is a square compartment, divided into 16 parts, in each of which, in a lozenge, there is a Rose. In a square contained within this there is another square, in the centre of which is the Lancastrian Rose; and in a scroll round about it, the following legend, 'Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno — Eternum florens regia sceptra feret'.
Сторінка 59 - I sent out partys to sease on them, and found not only three of those rogues, but also ane intercomend minister called King. We had them at...
Сторінка 80 - I will buy her a fine whip for the purpose. Tell me, have you been confined to your lodging this winter for want of chair-hire ? [Do you know that this unlucky Dr Delany came last night to the deanery, and being denied, without my knowledge, is gone to England this morning, and so I must send this by the post. I bought your opera to-day for sixpence, so small printed that it will spoil my eyes.
Сторінка 57 - The shorte of our present story seems to bee that the Courte will upon no tearms fall out with the French Alliance, and the Nation will upon no tearms fall in with it; and what the issue of this must bee in the success of our next expedition to sea, or in the consequences of any misfortune there arriving upon our losse of trade by a breach with Spain, I leave to Yr L"i...
Сторінка 80 - Adieu, dear Patty, and believe me to be one of your truest friends and humblest servants; and that, since I can never live in England, my greatest happiness would be to have you and Mr. Pope condemned, during my life, to live in Ireland, he at the Deanery, and you, for...

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