Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries: Including Numerous Original Letters, Chiefly from Strawberry Hill, Том 1Eliot Warburton H. Colburn, 1851 |
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... period must be passed in review before we can fairly estimate the man who , more than any other , embodied its peculiarities , its graces , and its defects . Society created his fame , and at the same time sapped its best resources ...
... period must be passed in review before we can fairly estimate the man who , more than any other , embodied its peculiarities , its graces , and its defects . Society created his fame , and at the same time sapped its best resources ...
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... period in a state of intense fermentation respecting the succes- sion to the Crown ; the former desired the return of the exiled James , the latter determined to admit no right but that of his daughter , the Princess Anne of Denmark ...
... period in a state of intense fermentation respecting the succes- sion to the Crown ; the former desired the return of the exiled James , the latter determined to admit no right but that of his daughter , the Princess Anne of Denmark ...
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... period the highest pos- sible recommendation , personal beauty of a very attractive character . As they grew towards ado- lescence , this gift became more and more valuable , and with minds developed in such a forcing - house as was the ...
... period the highest pos- sible recommendation , personal beauty of a very attractive character . As they grew towards ado- lescence , this gift became more and more valuable , and with minds developed in such a forcing - house as was the ...
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... period , such as those of " Grammont " and " The new Atlantis , " cannot be ignorant of the adventures attri- buted to the Duke of York and his protegé , Colonel Churchill . Their gallantries , however , are not within our province ...
... period , such as those of " Grammont " and " The new Atlantis , " cannot be ignorant of the adventures attri- buted to the Duke of York and his protegé , Colonel Churchill . Their gallantries , however , are not within our province ...
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... period . The accession of the Duke of York to the throne was much to the advantage of Lord Churchill . An English barony of the same name , and the rank of Brigadier , with subsequently that of Major - General , proved that James's ...
... period . The accession of the Duke of York to the throne was much to the advantage of Lord Churchill . An English barony of the same name , and the rank of Brigadier , with subsequently that of Major - General , proved that James's ...
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Стр. 65 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Стр. 16 - Thiers has enjoyed facilities beyond the reach of every other biographer of Napoleon for procuring, from exclusive and authentic sources, the choicest materials for his present work. As guardian to the archives of the state, he had access to diplomatic papers and other documents of the highest importance, hitherto known only to a privileged few, and the publication of which cannot fail to produce a great sensation.
Стр. 69 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Стр. 360 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not : eyes have they, but they see not...
Стр. 260 - As, though the pride of Middleton and Bland, All boys may read and girls may understand! Then might I sing without the least offence, And all I sung should be the nation's sense,* Or teach the melancholy muse to mourn, Hang the sad verse on Carolina's urn, And hail her passage to the realms of rest. All parts performed, and all her children bless'd, So — satire is no more— I feel it die — No gazetteer more innocent than I, And let, a God's name!
Стр. 70 - I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.
Стр. 9 - ... work, although its heroines were, for the most part, foreign Princesses, related almost entirely to the history of this country. The Princesses of England, on the contrary, are themselves English, but their lives are nearly all connected with foreign nations. Their biographies, consequently, afford us a glimpse of the manners and customs of the chief European kingdoms, a circumstance which not only gives to the work the charm of variety, but which is likely to render it peculiarly useful to the...
Стр. 392 - Fore him who never dines at all. Your taste in architect, you know, Hath been admired by friend and foe ; But can your earthly domes compare With all my castles — in the air ? We're often taught, it doth behove us To think those greater who're above us...
Стр. 9 - ... romance and adventure that is highly pleasing, and renders the work at once an agreeable companion of the boudoir, and a valuable addition to the historical library. Mrs. Green has entered upon an untrodden path, and gives to her biographies an air of freshness and novelty very alluring. The...
Стр. 9 - TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR. EDITED BY the Author of " SAM SLICK." 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d. " No man has done more than the facetious Judge Haliburton, through the mouth of the Inimitable ' Sam,' to make the old parent country recognize and appreciate her queer transatlantic progeny.