Memoirs of the court of England during the reigns of William and Mary, Queen Anne, and the first and second GeorgesJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 - Great Britain |
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... Tastes and Partialities Her Education of Her Children - Her Irreligious Feelings , and Repeated Attacks of Illness- Churchill's Eulogium on Her Youngest Daughter , Lady Caroline -Lady Hervey's Death in 1768 - Posthumous Publica- tion of ...
... Tastes and Partialities Her Education of Her Children - Her Irreligious Feelings , and Repeated Attacks of Illness- Churchill's Eulogium on Her Youngest Daughter , Lady Caroline -Lady Hervey's Death in 1768 - Posthumous Publica- tion of ...
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... Tastes of George the Second - His Love of Punctuality Cause of His Dislike to the Duke of Newcastle - His Fondness for Hunting - His Per- sonal Appearance- His Social Character- His Cold and Phlegmatic Manners — Anecdote of His ...
... Tastes of George the Second - His Love of Punctuality Cause of His Dislike to the Duke of Newcastle - His Fondness for Hunting - His Per- sonal Appearance- His Social Character- His Cold and Phlegmatic Manners — Anecdote of His ...
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... Autobiography Suppressed by His Widow . - - LORD PETERBOROUGH appears to have been the last of that peculiar class of heroes who mingled , with an almost romantic courage and a Quixotic 21 love of adventure , a taste for literature and a.
... Autobiography Suppressed by His Widow . - - LORD PETERBOROUGH appears to have been the last of that peculiar class of heroes who mingled , with an almost romantic courage and a Quixotic 21 love of adventure , a taste for literature and a.
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John Heneage Jesse. love of adventure , a taste for literature and a de- votion to poetry and the fine arts . To these quali- ties may be added a chivalrous admiration of the fair sex , an agreeable figure , and a graceful wit . He was ...
John Heneage Jesse. love of adventure , a taste for literature and a de- votion to poetry and the fine arts . To these quali- ties may be added a chivalrous admiration of the fair sex , an agreeable figure , and a graceful wit . He was ...
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... taste , but his Jacobite principles . When the bishop was com- mitted a prisoner to the Tower , in 1722 , on ac- count of his presumed intrigues in the cause of the Pretender , he was shortly afterward joined by his old pupil , who was ...
... taste , but his Jacobite principles . When the bishop was com- mitted a prisoner to the Tower , in 1722 , on ac- count of his presumed intrigues in the cause of the Pretender , he was shortly afterward joined by his old pupil , who was ...
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Page 70 - Some natural tears he dropped, but wiped them soon : The world was all before him, where to choose His place of rest, and Providence his guide.
Page 234 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Page 237 - Hervey, would you know the passion, You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be expressed. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known ; In my eyes you'll best discover, All the power of your own.
Page 216 - Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings...
Page 194 - ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
Page 216 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
Page 61 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 53 - Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow : Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Page 271 - Pope,' insinuating that I was whipped in Ham Walks, on Thursday last : — This is to give notice, that I did not stir out of my house at Twickenham on that day ; and the same is a malicious and ill-grounded report. — AP" It seems that Phillips hung up a birchen-rod at Button's.
Page 262 - Statesman, yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.