Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volumen 1H. G. Bohn, 1846 - 546 páginas |
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... tion of every rational mind . To poetry he bids an eternal adieu , in language which breathes no diminution of genius , at the moment that he for ever recedes from the poetical character . But he aspired to a better . The following ...
... tion of every rational mind . To poetry he bids an eternal adieu , in language which breathes no diminution of genius , at the moment that he for ever recedes from the poetical character . But he aspired to a better . The following ...
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... tion of attempting the adventure ourselves , despite of our insuf- ficiency , and of calling to our assistance two persons whom we have not the honour to know , but some of whose compositions have reached us . In order to propitiate ...
... tion of attempting the adventure ourselves , despite of our insuf- ficiency , and of calling to our assistance two persons whom we have not the honour to know , but some of whose compositions have reached us . In order to propitiate ...
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... tion he has formed of never dying , and upon the power he seems to possess of carrying it into execution . * That art by which his life he has warded , And death so often has retarded , ' Tis strange to me , The world's envy Has ne'er ...
... tion he has formed of never dying , and upon the power he seems to possess of carrying it into execution . * That art by which his life he has warded , And death so often has retarded , ' Tis strange to me , The world's envy Has ne'er ...
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... tion of the facts , which give more trouble to the writer than pleasure to the reader , shall not much embarrass me in these memoirs . It being my design to convey a just idea of my hero , those circumstances which most tend to ...
... tion of the facts , which give more trouble to the writer than pleasure to the reader , shall not much embarrass me in these memoirs . It being my design to convey a just idea of my hero , those circumstances which most tend to ...
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... tion of the Lord and the sage Brinon . At the second stage we quarrelled . He had received four hundred louis d'ors for the expenses of the campaign : I wished to have the keeping of them myself , which he strenuously opposed . Thou old ...
... tion of the Lord and the sage Brinon . At the second stage we quarrelled . He had received four hundred louis d'ors for the expenses of the campaign : I wished to have the keeping of them myself , which he strenuously opposed . Thou old ...
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Página 361 - In the first rank of these did Zimri' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 446 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Página 362 - Beggared by fools whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief...
Página 362 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Página 337 - Champion that would fight with him ;" and with these words, the Champion flings down his gauntlet, and all this he do three times in his going up towards the King's table. To which, when he is come, the King drinks to him, and then sends him the cup which is of gold, and he drinks it off, and then rides back again with the cup in his hand. I went from table to table to see the Bishops and all others at their dinner, and was infinitely pleased with it. And at the Lords...
Página 407 - He had, most undoubtedly, an excellent good plain understanding, with sound judgment. But these, alone, would probably have raised him but something higher than they found him; which was page to King James the Second's Queen.
Página 361 - When this extraordinary man, with the figure and genius of Alcibiades, could equally charm the presbyterian Fairfax, and the dissolute Charles ; when he alike ridiculed that witty king, and his solemn chancellor ; when he plotted the ruin of his country with a cabal of bad ministers ; or, equally unprincipled, supported its cause with bad patriots ; one laments that such parts should have been devoid of every virtue.
Página 406 - Of all the men I ever knew in my life (and I knew him extremely well), the late Duke of Marlborough possessed the graces in the highest degree, not to say engrossed them...
Página 399 - The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.
Página 361 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.