Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 pages |
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... thought , with the pathos which belongs only to the Dead . For the Past is all holy to us ; the Dead are all holy , even they that were base and wicked while alive . Their baseness and wicked- ness was not They , was but the heavy and ...
... thought , with the pathos which belongs only to the Dead . For the Past is all holy to us ; the Dead are all holy , even they that were base and wicked while alive . Their baseness and wicked- ness was not They , was but the heavy and ...
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... thought was there ; and therewithal presently drawing the curtain , showed me my own picture ; whereupon demanding how his lordship came to have it , he answered , that he had heard so many brave things of me , that he got a copy of a ...
... thought was there ; and therewithal presently drawing the curtain , showed me my own picture ; whereupon demanding how his lordship came to have it , he answered , that he had heard so many brave things of me , that he got a copy of a ...
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... thought fit to entreat Sir William Herbert , now Lord Powis , to go to Sir John Ayres , and tell him that I marvelled much at the information given me by these great persons , and that I could not imagine any sufficient ground hereof ...
... thought fit to entreat Sir William Herbert , now Lord Powis , to go to Sir John Ayres , and tell him that I marvelled much at the information given me by these great persons , and that I could not imagine any sufficient ground hereof ...
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... thought he had not so much honour left in him , that I could be any way ambitious to get it , yet that I desired to see him in the field with his sword in his hand ; the answer that he sent me was , that he would kill me with a musket ...
... thought he had not so much honour left in him , that I could be any way ambitious to get it , yet that I desired to see him in the field with his sword in his hand ; the answer that he sent me was , that he would kill me with a musket ...
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... thought I might match the Solicitor - General . Every body that saw me almost came to me , as Joseph William- son and others , with such eulogys as cannot be expressed . From thence I went to Westminster Hall , where I met Mr. G ...
... thought I might match the Solicitor - General . Every body that saw me almost came to me , as Joseph William- son and others , with such eulogys as cannot be expressed . From thence I went to Westminster Hall , where I met Mr. G ...
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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'].