Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 pages |
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... church to - day , as I was this day se'ennight : I generally am acquainted with about thirty in the drawing - room , and I am so proud I make all the lords come up to me : one passes half an hour pleasant enough . We had a dunce to ...
... church to - day , as I was this day se'ennight : I generally am acquainted with about thirty in the drawing - room , and I am so proud I make all the lords come up to me : one passes half an hour pleasant enough . We had a dunce to ...
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... church ( at the back of the church ) which is now removed altogether . The pudding at that shop was made with currants , and was rather a special pudding , but was dear : two penn'orth not being larger than a penn'orth of more ordinary ...
... church ( at the back of the church ) which is now removed altogether . The pudding at that shop was made with currants , and was rather a special pudding , but was dear : two penn'orth not being larger than a penn'orth of more ordinary ...
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... Church , Oxford , 1836 ; won Newdigate prize , 1839 ; contributed verse to ' Friendship's Offering ' and other miscellanies ; travelled for his health , 1840-1 ; B.A. , 1842 ; Μ.Α. , 1843 ; his first published writings were articles in ...
... Church , Oxford , 1836 ; won Newdigate prize , 1839 ; contributed verse to ' Friendship's Offering ' and other miscellanies ; travelled for his health , 1840-1 ; B.A. , 1842 ; Μ.Α. , 1843 ; his first published writings were articles in ...
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... Church being then chosen the Junior . In this year of his being Proctor , there happened many memo- rable accidents ; namely , Dr. Robert Abbot , Master of Balliol College , and Regius Professor of Divinity , who being elected or ...
... Church being then chosen the Junior . In this year of his being Proctor , there happened many memo- rable accidents ; namely , Dr. Robert Abbot , Master of Balliol College , and Regius Professor of Divinity , who being elected or ...
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... Church and seemed restless for a reformation : and though their desires seemed not reasonable to the King , and the learned Dr. Laud , then Archbishop of Canterbury ; yet , to quiet their con- sciences , and prevent future confusion ...
... Church and seemed restless for a reformation : and though their desires seemed not reasonable to the King , and the learned Dr. Laud , then Archbishop of Canterbury ; yet , to quiet their con- sciences , and prevent future confusion ...
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Page 617 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Page 73 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 80 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 459 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 63 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 371 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Page 317 - Etouffe dans la foule, Faute d'etre assez grand ; Une plainte touchante De ma bouche sortit ; Le bon Dieu me dit : Chante, Chante, pauvre petit ! Chanter, ou je m'abuse, Est ma tache ici-bas. Tous ceux qu'ainsi j'amuse, Ne m'aimeront-ils pas...
Page 325 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 212 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Page 454 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].