A Paladin of Philanthropy: And Other PapersChatto & Windus, 1899 - 361 Seiten |
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... interest still surviving in ... bygone men and things . His Third Series of " Eighteenth Century Vignettes " displays the same nicety of observation , and the same happy power of preserving what is valuable for us in the people and ...
... interest still surviving in ... bygone men and things . His Third Series of " Eighteenth Century Vignettes " displays the same nicety of observation , and the same happy power of preserving what is valuable for us in the people and ...
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... interests of the new province , but beyond the fact that , from his seat in the House , he had warmly supported two Acts prohibiting the introduction into the settlement of spirits and slavery , his doings have not been particularly ...
... interests of the new province , but beyond the fact that , from his seat in the House , he had warmly supported two Acts prohibiting the introduction into the settlement of spirits and slavery , his doings have not been particularly ...
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... interest , however , of The Procession , ' which was the particular name of this particular ' melodious tear , ' was its diplomatic dedication to John , Lord Cutts , himself a versifier , and what was more important , also the newly ...
... interest , however , of The Procession , ' which was the particular name of this particular ' melodious tear , ' was its diplomatic dedication to John , Lord Cutts , himself a versifier , and what was more important , also the newly ...
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... interest - for Cutts gave him little but pat- ronage - he became a captain in Lucas's Fusileers . Here , however , Mr. Aitken's cautious method discloses an unsuspected error . Steele is spoken of as a captain as early as 1700 , and ...
... interest - for Cutts gave him little but pat- ronage - he became a captain in Lucas's Fusileers . Here , however , Mr. Aitken's cautious method discloses an unsuspected error . Steele is spoken of as a captain as early as 1700 , and ...
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... interest- ing accounts of Jacob Tonson , bearing upon the sale of the collected editions , and , from the British Museum , an assignment to Buckley the bookseller of a share in the ' Spectator , ' Mr. Aitken adds nothing that is ...
... interest- ing accounts of Jacob Tonson , bearing upon the sale of the collected editions , and , from the British Museum , an assignment to Buckley the bookseller of a share in the ' Spectator , ' Mr. Aitken adds nothing that is ...
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Seite 289 - 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.
Seite 53 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Seite 153 - I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity. Of Mr. Boswell's truth I have not the least suspicion, because I am sure he could invent nothing of this kind. The true title of this part of his work is, A Dialogue between a Green-goose and a Hero.
Seite 206 - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Seite 164 - Hottentot indeed, and tho' your abilities are respectable, you never can be respected yourself. He has the aspect of an Idiot, without the faintest ray of sense gleaming from any one feature — with the most awkward garb, and unpowdered grey wig, on one side only of his head — he is for ever dancing the devil's jig, and sometimes he makes the most driveling effort to whistle some thought in his absent paroxisms.
Seite 201 - Following his Majesty this morning through the gallery, I went, with the few who attended him, into the Duchess of Portsmouth's dressing-room within her bed-chamber, where she was in her morning loose garment, her maids combing her, newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants standing about her...
Seite 311 - It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ; but I hod a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.
Seite 90 - XIV., he lost the succession to a very good estate in the county of Wexford, in Ireland, from the same humour, which he has preserved ever since, of preferring the state of his mind to that of his fortune.
Seite 284 - — writes Arbuthnot to Swift under date of March 19, 1729 — "is now become one of the obstructions to the peace of Europe, the terror of the ministers, the chief author of the Craftsman and all the seditious pamphlets which have been published against the Government. He has got several turned out of their places ; the greatest ornament of the court banished from it for his sake ; another great lady [Mrs.
Seite 286 - The duchess is a more severe check upon my finances than ever you were, and I submit, as I did to you, to comply to my own good. I was a long time before I could prevail with her to let me allow myself a pair of shoes with two heels, for I had lost one, and the shoes were so decayed that they were not worth mending.