Historical Characters of the Reign of Queen AnneCentury Company, 1894 - 207 من الصفحات |
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Addison afterward amusing Anne's appearance Bishop Bishop Burnet brilliant CHARLES HERBERT WOODBURY child church Churchill court critic curious dear death Defoe Defoe's delightful dissenters doubt duchess Duke England English ENGRAVED faithful favorite fortune Freeman genius gentleman hand Harley heart honor household imagination Ireland Irish Isaac Bickerstaff Jonathan Swift kind King William Lady Marlborough least letters literary living Lord Lord Macaulay Lord Marlborough Lord Townsend marriage Mary Mary of Modena ment MEZZOTINT mind Moor Park Morley nate young nature never occasion once PAINTING BY SIR party passion peace perhaps person political poor prince princess Queen Anne reader reason reign royal Sarah Sarah Jennings satire says scarcely seems sentiment side Sir Roger Sir William sister Spectator Steele Stella supposed Swift Tatler tender thing thought tion told Tory verses Whig wits woman wonderful writes young
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الصفحة 207 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
الصفحة 62 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
الصفحة 180 - Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war : In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
الصفحة 123 - A bishop here said, that book was full of improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it; and so much for Gulliver.
الصفحة 201 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
الصفحة 85 - ... he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency ; and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratid, on the 15th February 1685, with four more on the same footing: and this discreditable mark, as I am told, stands upon record in their college registry.
الصفحة 207 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy. ' Through every period of my life Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death in distant worlds The glorious theme renew. ' When nature fails, and day and night Divide thy works no more, My ever grateful heart, O Lord, Thy mercy shall adore. 'Through all eternity to Thee A joyful song I'll raise, For, oh ! eternity's too short To utter all Thy praise.
الصفحة 69 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
الصفحة 195 - But pray, (says he,) you that are a critic, is this play according to your dramatic rules, as you call them? Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why, there is not a single sentence in this play that I do not know the meaning of.
الصفحة 113 - He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.