Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Том 3R. Bentley, 1836 |
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Сторінка 266 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Сторінка 206 - Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
Сторінка 226 - ... its natural and accustomed support, a scheme for disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward ; and for allotting to the Prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Сторінка 222 - Give forked counsel; take provoking gold On either hand, and put it up; these men, He knew, would thrive with their humility. And for his part he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee; when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a cecchine!
Сторінка 291 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Сторінка 298 - ... lord chamberlain ; the master of the horse, and the groom of the stole. Lord North, who from his anxiety to supply the void occasioned by Fox's absence took part in every discussion, immediately intimated his intention of moving to insert the names of the princes of the...
Сторінка 205 - only to deliver my sentiments in a manner becoming a simple citizen. The great seal, it appears, is to be affixed to a commission, robbing the executive power of its due function. A composition of wax and copper is to represent the sovereign. So preposterous a fiction merits only contempt and ridicule. I disclaim all allegiance, I renounce all obedience to a king so formed. I worship the gods of our glorious constitution, but I will not bow down before Priapus !" Against the chancellor, Burke inveighed...
Сторінка 199 - He knows that he dares not risk it. Notwithstanding his high character and his influence within these walls, he would not be supported by twenty members." " The claim itself," continued Fox, " has been disavowed in another assembly, by an exalted personage, in his brother's name, so that truly to describe the case, the preamble of the bill must run thus : ' Whereas the Prince of Wales has never claimed any right to the Regency, it becomes necessary for the Peers and Commons of England to declare...
Сторінка 371 - ... monsieur, avec beaucoup de joie et de satisfaction, et qu'on m'écriroit plus amplement sur ce sujet par l'occasion du courier qui arriveroit à Londres à-peu-près vers le mi du mois de Janvier.
Сторінка 291 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stept in so far, that should I wade no more, Returning were as bad as to go o'er.