Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, المجلد 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... person . He loved letter - writing , and had evidently studied it as an art . It was , in truth , the very kind of writing for such a man , for a man very ambitious to rank among wits , yet nervously afraid that , while obtaining the ...
... person . He loved letter - writing , and had evidently studied it as an art . It was , in truth , the very kind of writing for such a man , for a man very ambitious to rank among wits , yet nervously afraid that , while obtaining the ...
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... person was more thoroughly convinced than he of the absurdity of the cry against Spain . But his darling power was at stake , and his choice was soon made . He preferred an unjust war to a stormy session . It is impos- sible to say of a ...
... person was more thoroughly convinced than he of the absurdity of the cry against Spain . But his darling power was at stake , and his choice was soon made . He preferred an unjust war to a stormy session . It is impos- sible to say of a ...
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... person . His understanding was that of Walpole on a somewhat smaller scale . Though not a brilliant orator , he was , like his master , a good debater , a good parliamentary tactician , a good man of business . Like his master he dis ...
... person . His understanding was that of Walpole on a somewhat smaller scale . Though not a brilliant orator , he was , like his master , a good debater , a good parliamentary tactician , a good man of business . Like his master he dis ...
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... person to a share of his au- thority until the throne was filled by a new Prince , who brought with him new maxims of government , new favor- ites , and a strong will . But the inauspicious commencement of the Seven Years ' War brought ...
... person to a share of his au- thority until the throne was filled by a new Prince , who brought with him new maxims of government , new favor- ites , and a strong will . But the inauspicious commencement of the Seven Years ' War brought ...
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... person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was undoubtedly a great man . But this was not a complete and well - proportioned greatness . The public life of Hampden or of Somers resembles a regular drama , which ...
... person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was undoubtedly a great man . But this was not a complete and well - proportioned greatness . The public life of Hampden or of Somers resembles a regular drama , which ...
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الصفحة 466 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
الصفحة 645 - I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr.
الصفحة 200 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame...
الصفحة 552 - ... that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
الصفحة 132 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England...
الصفحة 317 - Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.
الصفحة 211 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want.
الصفحة 144 - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
الصفحة 252 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
الصفحة 552 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ? How sweet the glooms beneath...