Village memoirs: in a series of letters. Literary memoirs, and epistolary correspondence. PoemsJ. B. Nichols, 1828 |
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... again sent for , not to pray by him , but ( at my own request ) pay the last tribute to expiring friendship . He had no orders to give about either his plumes or his to monument : " If I have lived well , " VILLAGE MEMOIRS. ...
... again sent for , not to pray by him , but ( at my own request ) pay the last tribute to expiring friendship . He had no orders to give about either his plumes or his to monument : " If I have lived well , " VILLAGE MEMOIRS. ...
Pagina 11
... give laws in the true style of a school- master ; but I can never help expatiating on this subject , for it is not so much the comet itself , as the tail of that comet , that I am so much in care for : there is always some expecting ...
... give laws in the true style of a school- master ; but I can never help expatiating on this subject , for it is not so much the comet itself , as the tail of that comet , that I am so much in care for : there is always some expecting ...
Pagina 12
... give you some account of the pupil who is entrusted to my care . He is a young man of rank and fortune , and not totally devoid of literary attainments ; for a short time he has been at Westminster school , but ( as is too frequently ...
... give you some account of the pupil who is entrusted to my care . He is a young man of rank and fortune , and not totally devoid of literary attainments ; for a short time he has been at Westminster school , but ( as is too frequently ...
Pagina 24
... give no- thing but the truth . The grand vehicle of business in this metropolis appears to me to be a lie ; it rises ... gives a relish to many enjoyments . But now the whole city is in a ferment , for there its mornings are monopolized ...
... give no- thing but the truth . The grand vehicle of business in this metropolis appears to me to be a lie ; it rises ... gives a relish to many enjoyments . But now the whole city is in a ferment , for there its mornings are monopolized ...
Pagina 26
... give into a way of being so severe , you will never be a favourite amongst the ladies . Besides , brother , I receive so many civilities from this family , that I should tax myself with the height of ingratitude , if I endea- voured to give ...
... give into a way of being so severe , you will never be a favourite amongst the ladies . Besides , brother , I receive so many civilities from this family , that I should tax myself with the height of ingratitude , if I endea- voured to give ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
acquainted afterwards agreeable anecdotes attend Bath Bishop Bishop Warburton brother called Cambridge character CHARLES Church Stretton comedy compliments DEAR CRADOCK DEAR SIR death Denbigh died dinner Doctor Duke elegant entertaining Euripides father favour frequently Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith Grotius Gumley happy hear heard Hinchinbroke honour hope HUGO MEYNELL humble servant Hurd Johnson kind Lady Lady Craven late Leicester Leicestershire letter literary live London Lord Mansfield Lord Sandwich Lordship Mainwaring Marleston Memoirs miles mind Miss Massem Monsey morning never Nichols night obedient obliged Parr party PAULET perhaps play pleasure present printed R. B. SHERIDAN racter received replied respect river scene sermon sincere soon speak sure thanks theatre Thetford thing thought Thurcaston tion took town tragedy Warburton Westminster School Westmoreland County whilst wish write Yates
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Pagina 403 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Pagina 50 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord : at the presence of the God of Jacob ; 8 Who turned the hard rock into a standing water : and the flint-stone into a springing well.
Pagina 49 - The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Pagina 326 - I challenge for myself the third. For many years, I spent a month's holidays in London, and never failed to call upon Johnson. I was not only admitted, but welcomed. I conversed with him upon numberless subjects of learning, politics, and common life. I traversed the whole compass...
Pagina 166 - Paris I had a dancingmaster ; the man was very civil, and on taking leave of him I offered him any service in London. " Then," said the man, bowing, " I should take it as a particular favour if your Lordship would never tell any one of whom you learned to dance.
Pagina 294 - remainder of my carcase ' (to use his own words) ' may be put into a hole, or crammed into a box with holes, and thrown into the Thames.
Pagina 227 - Andraste darting, catches from the wreck The roll of fame, claps her ascending plumes, And stamps on orient stars each patriot name, Round her eternal dome. CARACTACUS. Speak ever thus, And I will hear thee, till attention faint In heedless ecstasy. CHORUS. This tho...
Pagina 296 - Ay, sir, but to die and go we know not where,' &c. — here his morbid melancholy prevailed, and Garrick never spoke so impressively to the heart. Yet, to see him in the evening (though he took nothing stronger than lemonade), a stranger would have concluded that our morning account was a fabrication. No hour was too late to keep him from the tyranny of his own gloomy thoughts. " A gentleman venturing to say to Johnson, ' Sir, I wonder sometimes that you condescend so far as to attend a city club.
Pagina 57 - Thus every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated, by the rest : for the two houses naturally drawing in two directions of opposite interest, and the prerogative in another still different from them both, they mutually keep each other from exceeding their proper limits...