The Works, of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ...: From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex [and Others], Volume 2E. Jeffery and son, 1822 - English literature |
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... " Samuel Sandys as he was going up " ..... 112 An Epigram- " Deep , deep , in Sandys blundering Head " 121 Sandys and Jekyll- " " Twas at the silent solemn hour " 122 Page Hervey and Jekyll " Old Jekyll's ghost in scorching V.
... " Samuel Sandys as he was going up " ..... 112 An Epigram- " Deep , deep , in Sandys blundering Head " 121 Sandys and Jekyll- " " Twas at the silent solemn hour " 122 Page Hervey and Jekyll " Old Jekyll's ghost in scorching V.
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... Careless of all beside ; Nor in his most unguarded hour , Courts popularity or power , Thro ' vanity or pride . XII . Such is the man , so just , so brave , Neither the king's nor people's slave , But to his consciencé true ; Do thou , O ...
... Careless of all beside ; Nor in his most unguarded hour , Courts popularity or power , Thro ' vanity or pride . XII . Such is the man , so just , so brave , Neither the king's nor people's slave , But to his consciencé true ; Do thou , O ...
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... hours , Nor ranc'rous spleen , my happy time devours ; No gnawing envy e'er disturbs my breast- Tho ' Sands is made a peer , yet I'm at rest . Contempt of wealth has ever been my crime , But I grow covetous of health and time ; Stedfast ...
... hours , Nor ranc'rous spleen , my happy time devours ; No gnawing envy e'er disturbs my breast- Tho ' Sands is made a peer , yet I'm at rest . Contempt of wealth has ever been my crime , But I grow covetous of health and time ; Stedfast ...
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... hours I keep ; But when th ' inverted year wears winter's frown , My coach is order'd , and I drive to town ; There dash into a stream of new delight , Enjoy my friends by day , my nymph by night . Till morn , sometimes , a social glass ...
... hours I keep ; But when th ' inverted year wears winter's frown , My coach is order'd , and I drive to town ; There dash into a stream of new delight , Enjoy my friends by day , my nymph by night . Till morn , sometimes , a social glass ...
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... hour you hear their name , They're ministers or peers . Dulness herself has forc'd her way , Her darling son , Sir John , * ' s in play , And rules the Navy - board ; Whilst her dear Nephew , Samuel Sands , Has kiss'd his sov'reign's ...
... hour you hear their name , They're ministers or peers . Dulness herself has forc'd her way , Her darling son , Sir John , * ' s in play , And rules the Navy - board ; Whilst her dear Nephew , Samuel Sands , Has kiss'd his sov'reign's ...
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Page 183 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 103 - As these are useless when the sun is set: So those, but when more glorious Reason shines. Reason should judge in all; in reason's eye, That sedentary shadow travels hard. But such our gravitation to the wrong...
Page 191 - In spite of outward blemishes, she shone, For humour fam'd, and humour all her own. Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod, Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod. Original in spirit and in ease, She pleas'd by hiding all attempts to please. No comic actress ever yet could raise, On humour's base, more merit or more praise.
Page 43 - Rigby; the first of whom did not deign to notice him; but he must come to it. You would have died to see Newcastle's pitiful and distressed figure, — nobody went near him : he tried to flatter people, that were too busy to mind him ; in short, he was quite disconcerted; his treachery used to be so sheathed in folly, that he was never out of countenance ; but it is plain he grows old. To finish his confusion and anxiety, George Selwyn...
Page 181 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is...
Page 242 - Fox always spoke to the question ; Pitt to the passions. Fox, to carry the question ; Pitt to raise himself. Fox pointed out, Pitt lashed the errors of his antagonists. Pitt's talents were likely to make him soonest ; Fox's to keep him First Minister longest.
Page 51 - ... of his genius evaporate by the process ; for though his first view of the question would be a wide one, and clear withal, when he came to exercise the subtlety of his disquisitorial powers upon it, he would so ingeniously dissect and break it into fractions, that as an object, when looked upon too intently for a length of time, grows misty and confused, so would the question under his discussion, when the humour took him to be hypercritical.
Page 272 - Gideon, who is dead worth more than the whole land of Canaan, has left the reversion of all his milk and honey, after his son and daughter and their children, to the Duke of Devonshire, without insisting on his taking the name, or even being circumcised.
Page 253 - He had all his life imitated the French manners till he came to Paris, where he never conversed with a Frenchman. If good breeding is not different from good sense...
Page 245 - ... of nobility, — pride of what one can neither cause nor prevent. " I say nothing of his integrity, because I know nothing of it, but that it has never been breathed upon even by suspicion : it will be time enough to vindicate it, when it has been impeached. He is as well-bred as those who colour over timidity with gentleness of manners, and as...