The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, المجلد 2John Williams, 1826 |
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الصفحة 554
... party , and pointed in discomfiting the measures of his opponents ; he was caressed when in office , and respected when out of it . The first question which he conspicuously advocated was that just and liberal one which proposed to ...
... party , and pointed in discomfiting the measures of his opponents ; he was caressed when in office , and respected when out of it . The first question which he conspicuously advocated was that just and liberal one which proposed to ...
الصفحة 556
... party who passed the act for securing the protestant succession in the House of Hanover ; and when the Court was obliged to confer the order of the Garter upon the elector , he was chosen as the ambassador who should invest it . Upon ...
... party who passed the act for securing the protestant succession in the House of Hanover ; and when the Court was obliged to confer the order of the Garter upon the elector , he was chosen as the ambassador who should invest it . Upon ...
الصفحة 563
... party for refreshment . The King , taken by surprise and pleased with the composition , asked who it was to whom he was indebted for the en- tertainment : and upon being told to Handel , good - naturedly called him from concealment ...
... party for refreshment . The King , taken by surprise and pleased with the composition , asked who it was to whom he was indebted for the en- tertainment : and upon being told to Handel , good - naturedly called him from concealment ...
الصفحة 594
... parties . Of those early habits by which , in some instances , the character ` of future greatness has been prematurely indicated , there is nothing known in the case of John Howard . However strongly the propensities of his mind may ...
... parties . Of those early habits by which , in some instances , the character ` of future greatness has been prematurely indicated , there is nothing known in the case of John Howard . However strongly the propensities of his mind may ...
الصفحة 610
... party to the hostilities , and dispatched the Count d'Estaing with a considerable force of battle ships , admirably equipped , and most powerfully manned , to assist the hostile operations of the revolutionists . Howe was but ill ...
... party to the hostilities , and dispatched the Count d'Estaing with a considerable force of battle ships , admirably equipped , and most powerfully manned , to assist the hostile operations of the revolutionists . Howe was but ill ...
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الصفحة 624 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
الصفحة 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
الصفحة 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
الصفحة 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
الصفحة 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
الصفحة 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
الصفحة 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 511 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...