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... Prince of Orange's party battle it out 1 " Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days , and I used to suspect a hundred reasons ? I have plucked up my ...
... Prince of Orange's party battle it out 1 " Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple would look cold and out of humour for three or four days , and I used to suspect a hundred reasons ? I have plucked up my ...
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... Prince of Orange ; but there is one person whose ease and comfort he loves more than all the princes in Christendom , and that valuable mem- ber of society is himself Gulielmus Temple , Baronettus . One sees him in his retreat ; between ...
... Prince of Orange ; but there is one person whose ease and comfort he loves more than all the princes in Christendom , and that valuable mem- ber of society is himself Gulielmus Temple , Baronettus . One sees him in his retreat ; between ...
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... prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old . " They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld , and the women more horrible than the men ; besides the usual deformities in extreme old age , they ...
... prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were fourscore years old . " They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld , and the women more horrible than the men ; besides the usual deformities in extreme old age , they ...
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... Prince Eugene compli- mented , or the reverse ; and the party in power was presently to provide for the young poet ; and a commis- sionership , or a post in the Stamps , or the secretaryship of an Embassy , or a clerkship in the ...
... Prince Eugene compli- mented , or the reverse ; and the party in power was presently to provide for the young poet ; and a commis- sionership , or a post in the Stamps , or the secretaryship of an Embassy , or a clerkship in the ...
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... barbarians knew his awful name , " and addresses him as if he were a prince ; and speaks of " Pastora " as one of the most famous tragic compositions . one melancholy . We have had in Congreve a humour- [ 67 ] THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS.
... barbarians knew his awful name , " and addresses him as if he were a prince ; and speaks of " Pastora " as one of the most famous tragic compositions . one melancholy . We have had in Congreve a humour- [ 67 ] THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS.
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Сторінка 250 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Сторінка 162 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Сторінка 238 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Сторінка 162 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Сторінка 118 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind.
Сторінка 113 - like a distressed prince who calls in a powerful neighbour to his aid. I was undone by my auxiliary. When I had once called him in, I could not subsist without dependence on him.
Сторінка 238 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm...
Сторінка 75 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.
Сторінка 137 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour temp'ring virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation, in a low estate ; And uncorrupted...
Сторінка 133 - So when I am wearied with wandering all day, To thee, my delight, in the evening I come: No matter what beauties I saw in my way; They were but my visits, but thou art my home.