Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury: D. D., Bishop of Rochester. With Notices of His Distinguished Contemporaries, Band 1W. H. Allen and Company, 1869 |
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Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, D. D. , Bishop of ..., Band 2 Robert Folkestone Williams,Francis Atterbury Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 219 - of death survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage : So when an angel, by Divine command, With rising tempest shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia pass'd, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleased
Seite 192 - Arbnthnot is no more my friend, Who dares to irony pretend, Which I was born to introduce, Refined it first, and show'd its use. St. John, as well as Pulteney, knows That I had some repute for prose, And, till they drove me out of date, Could maul a Minister of State.
Seite 304 - foe and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged ; And so obliging that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give bis little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars
Seite 80 - ill, The other doctors gave me over ; He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill, And I was likely to recover. But when the Wit began to wheeze, And wine had warmed the Politician, Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my Physician. In
Seite 191 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But, with a sigh, I wish it mine : When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six. It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry,
Seite 139 - nature, though severe his lay, His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Blest satirist, who touch'd the mean so true, As show'd Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest courtier, who could King and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendship and his ease. Blest peer, his great forefathers' every grace Reflecting and reflected in his race; Where other
Seite 229 - upon the nobility, gentry, clergy, and universities of this kingdom, maliciously insinuating that the Protestant succession in the House of Hanover is in danger under Her Majesty's administration, and tending to alienate the affections of Her Majesty's good subjects, and to create jealousies and divisions among them. It was resolved, likewise,
Seite 46 - without shape or comeliness; large, but without strength or proportion. His armour was patched up of a thousand incoherent pieces, and the sound of it, as he marched, was loud and dry, like that made by the fall of a sheet of lead, which an Etesian wind blows suddenly down from the roof of some steeple.
Seite 109 - become of thy delicate hue ? And where is the violet's beautiful blue ? Does aught of its sweetness the blossom beguile ? That meadow—those daisies—why do they not smile ? Ah ! rivals. I see what it was that you dressed, And made yourselves fine for—a place on her breast; You put on your colours to pleasure her eye, To be
Seite 63 - regard for his congregation, that he commits to his memory what he has to say to them; and has so soft and graceful a behaviour, that it must attract your attention. His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding