Memoirs of celebrated Etonians, Հատոր 1 |
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... probably his Sapphic Ode , addressed to Sir Robert Walpole the year after the fall of the latter from power ; Archdeacon Coxe having given it notoriety by transcribing it at length in his life of Sir Robert.3 Mr. Hardinge would seem to ...
... probably his Sapphic Ode , addressed to Sir Robert Walpole the year after the fall of the latter from power ; Archdeacon Coxe having given it notoriety by transcribing it at length in his life of Sir Robert.3 Mr. Hardinge would seem to ...
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... probably not a little enhanced in the eyes of his country neighbours by the venerable Provost of Eton , Dr. Godolphin , on a good - natured pretext of desiring to consult him pro- fessionally , sending his coach and four horses to carry ...
... probably not a little enhanced in the eyes of his country neighbours by the venerable Provost of Eton , Dr. Godolphin , on a good - natured pretext of desiring to consult him pro- fessionally , sending his coach and four horses to carry ...
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... probably afford you some experience ; but may you learn , and may you profit by the example , that a conscientious endeavour to perform his duty through life will ever close a Christian's eyes with comfort and tranquillity ! " Shortly ...
... probably afford you some experience ; but may you learn , and may you profit by the example , that a conscientious endeavour to perform his duty through life will ever close a Christian's eyes with comfort and tranquillity ! " Shortly ...
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... probably those alone which are consulted in our time . He left behind him , however , at his death some fugitive poetical pieces , which are said to have possessed no inconsiderable merit , and was also the author of a musical drama ...
... probably those alone which are consulted in our time . He left behind him , however , at his death some fugitive poetical pieces , which are said to have possessed no inconsiderable merit , and was also the author of a musical drama ...
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... probably already become an Eton scholar when , at the age of eleven , he lost his venerable father , who died on the 28th of October , 1716 , in his eighty- ninth year . His nature was quick and ardent , and accordingly , when thus left ...
... probably already become an Eton scholar when , at the age of eleven , he lost his venerable father , who died on the 28th of October , 1716 , in his eighty- ninth year . His nature was quick and ardent , and accordingly , when thus left ...
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Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians: Including Henry Fielding. The Earl ..., Հատոր 1 John Heneage Jesse Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1875 |
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Էջ 79 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Էջ 257 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Էջ 134 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Էջ 191 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Էջ 77 - Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company...
Էջ 309 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Էջ 157 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy.
Էջ 54 - And mariners, though shipwrecked, dread to land. Here reign the blustering North, and blighting East, No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Art he invokes new horrors still to bring.
Էջ 82 - On this day the most melancholy sun I had ever beheld arose, and found me awake at my house at Fordhook. By the light of this sun I was, in my own opinion, last to behold and take leave of some of those creatures on whom I doted with a mother-like fondness, guided by nature and passion, and uncured and unhardened by all the doctrine of that philosophical school where I had learned to bear pains and to despise death.
Էջ 156 - Within his large wig little more was to be seen than his aquiline nose, and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared like a being of a superior species.