Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of William and Mary, Queen Anne, and the first and second GeorgesJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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الصفحة 70 - Some natural tears he dropped, but wiped them soon : The world was all before him, where to choose His place of rest, and Providence his guide.
الصفحة 234 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
الصفحة 237 - Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.
الصفحة 216 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
الصفحة 194 - ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
الصفحة 216 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
الصفحة 61 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
الصفحة 53 - Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow : Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
الصفحة 271 - Pope,' insinuating that I was whipped in Ham Walks, on Thursday last : — This is to give notice, that I did not stir out of my house at Twickenham on that day ; and the same is a malicious and ill-grounded report. — AP" It seems that Phillips hung up a birchen-rod at Button's.
الصفحة 262 - Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.