Himself His Worst Enemy: Or, Philip, Duke of Wharton's Career ...J. P. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 374 páginas |
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... seems well fitted for her office and its onerous duties . She is robust and comely , albeit red and a trifle sooty , for she has been busily engaged all the morning in cooking a dinner to please the palates of the gentlefolk who are to ...
... seems well fitted for her office and its onerous duties . She is robust and comely , albeit red and a trifle sooty , for she has been busily engaged all the morning in cooking a dinner to please the palates of the gentlefolk who are to ...
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... seems familiar with , for he encircles her stout waist with his arm , and growls quite amiably , " Come , dame , I know thou hast summut for me : come - what is it ? " " Go away , Shem ; dost see how ta rumples my pinner and a ' that's ...
... seems familiar with , for he encircles her stout waist with his arm , and growls quite amiably , " Come , dame , I know thou hast summut for me : come - what is it ? " " Go away , Shem ; dost see how ta rumples my pinner and a ' that's ...
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... seems to admire them herself , for her eyes are fixed intently on them , as she stands with one charming little hand resting against the low , droop- ing boughs of an old oak . But why she should tremble , as she certainly does , and ...
... seems to admire them herself , for her eyes are fixed intently on them , as she stands with one charming little hand resting against the low , droop- ing boughs of an old oak . But why she should tremble , as she certainly does , and ...
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... seem strange that Swift is here , whose Tory propensities and personal animosity towards his host are well known , but he is an erratic being , and this is possibly one of his freaks ; or just as likely , his pre- sence may be ascribed ...
... seem strange that Swift is here , whose Tory propensities and personal animosity towards his host are well known , but he is an erratic being , and this is possibly one of his freaks ; or just as likely , his pre- sence may be ascribed ...
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... seems inevitable that Harley will now carry things with a high hand ; while at the ear of majesty itself whispers the Tory tool - handsome , fascinating Mistress Abigail Masham , who has superseded the vixenish Sarah , Duchess of ...
... seems inevitable that Harley will now carry things with a high hand ; while at the ear of majesty itself whispers the Tory tool - handsome , fascinating Mistress Abigail Masham , who has superseded the vixenish Sarah , Duchess of ...
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Abbé Alberoni angry answer Atterbury Avignon beauty Brad calls Catachresis cavalier CHAPTER cheeks conversation Cowper cries Dame Debbie door draws dressed Dubois Duke of Wharton Earl Edgely Valentin England enters exclaims eyes face father favor fear feel finished Francis Atterbury gentlemen give glance grace hand Hanoverian Hautefort head heard heart honor Inverness Jacobite James king kisses Königsegg lady laughs leave letter Lillibullero lips London looks Lord Stair Lord Wharton lordship majesty Maldran manner Master Philip Mistress O'Beirne Mohocks Mordanto Nanar never Nora once pale Paris Peterborough Philip replies Philip says queen Queenie quick rapier Rathfarnham replies Philip resumes Ripperda rises Rooksnest S'life Savatte scarcely Shem shoulders Sir Edgely Sir Harry smile speak Stair stands steps sure tell thought thousand guineas Thurton tones Tory turns voice walks Walpole Whig wife window wonderful words
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Página 369 - Shrewsbury and love; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring 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 369 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 306 - Hitherto my master's interest has been managed by the Duchess of Perth, and three or four other old women, who meet under the portal of St. Germain's; he wanted a Whig, and a brisk one, to put them in the right train, and I am the man ! You may now look upon me, Sir...
Página 7 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 292 - am no competent judge, your Lordships shall be " induced to proceed on this bill, God's will be " done ! Naked came I out of my mother's womb, " and naked shall I return ; and whether He " gives or takes away, blessed be the name of the "Lord!
Página 339 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 297 - Or wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true Love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.
Página 133 - Was there a watchman took his hourly rounds Safe from their blows, or new-invented wounds ? I pass their desperate deeds and mischiefs done, Where from Snow-hill black steepy torrents run ; How matrons, hoop'd within the hogshead's womb, Were tumbled furious thence...
Página 70 - Pierre, whene'er thou seest my fears Betray me less, to rip this heart of mine Out of my breast, and show it for a coward's.
Página 297 - I and my love wer wont to gae. 1 leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree ; But first it bow'd, and syne it brak, Sae my true love did lichtly me. O waly waly, gin love be bonny, A little time while it is new ; But when its auld, it waxeth cauld, And fades awa