Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, and Unpublished Literary Remains ...J. Murray, 1850 |
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... hand . that health should have rendered this measure advisable , and without , on the other , expressing my very sincere delight in finding that you have con- sented not to withdraw from us altogether , but that still consider you a ...
... hand . that health should have rendered this measure advisable , and without , on the other , expressing my very sincere delight in finding that you have con- sented not to withdraw from us altogether , but that still consider you a ...
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... Duke appeared to be au fait of the business in hand , and ready to cope with the details as they from time to presented themselves . CHAP . II . TOUR OF INSPECTION TO NORTHERN DISTRICT CHAP . I. ] THE DUKE AT THE ORDNANCE . 15.
... Duke appeared to be au fait of the business in hand , and ready to cope with the details as they from time to presented themselves . CHAP . II . TOUR OF INSPECTION TO NORTHERN DISTRICT CHAP . I. ] THE DUKE AT THE ORDNANCE . 15.
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... , but not the less anti - Government . Said as to the mob , he had stood within the Temple gates in 1780 with a field - piece , and a match in his hand , re- solved to blow the mob to the devil , and 32 [ CHAP . II . EXTRACTS FROM.
... , but not the less anti - Government . Said as to the mob , he had stood within the Temple gates in 1780 with a field - piece , and a match in his hand , re- solved to blow the mob to the devil , and 32 [ CHAP . II . EXTRACTS FROM.
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... hand on the carriage - door , upon which a footman behind said he would break his arm if he did not let go . The mob called out , " Kill him ! " and were pro- ceeding to violence when the police came up . I was amused with a ...
... hand on the carriage - door , upon which a footman behind said he would break his arm if he did not let go . The mob called out , " Kill him ! " and were pro- ceeding to violence when the police came up . I was amused with a ...
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... hand with friendliness , and post- poned the subject . Since that I saw him but once . I was obliged , however , at the beginning , to move a vote of credit of 250,000l . in the Committee of Sup- ply , upon which Mr. Hume , who seems to ...
... hand with friendliness , and post- poned the subject . Since that I saw him but once . I was obliged , however , at the beginning , to move a vote of credit of 250,000l . in the Committee of Sup- ply , upon which Mr. Hume , who seems to ...
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Seite 331 - Lofty, and sour, to them that lov"d him not; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer: And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely.
Seite 425 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Seite 429 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Seite 287 - Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critic with a Poet's fire. An ardent Judge, who zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws ; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Seite 223 - We must not make a Scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, ACT n, Sc.
Seite 429 - Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Seite 432 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 352 - I design to pass the greatest part of the time I stay in Ireland here in the cabin where I am now writing, neither will I leave the Kingdom till I am sent for ; and if they have no further service for me I will never see England again. At my first coming I thought I should have died with discontent, and was horribly melancholy while they were installing me ; but it begins to wear off, and change to dulness.
Seite 445 - Then welcome business, welcome strife Welcome the cares, the thorns of life. The visage wan, the purblind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall, — • For thee, fair Justice, welcome all...
Seite 380 - ... between Pope's fortune and manner of life, and mine, may be carried. I have been, then, infinitely more uniform and less dissipated than when you knew me and cared for me. That love which I used to scatter with some profusion among the female kind, has been these many years devoted to one object...