George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes, Volumen 2R. Bentley, 1843 |
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... Sir Robert Walpole , was born on the 5th of Oc- tober , 1717. He was educated at Eton , ( where he was the contemporary of ... Lord Byron observes , in his preface to " Marino Faliero , " " It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ...
... Sir Robert Walpole , was born on the 5th of Oc- tober , 1717. He was educated at Eton , ( where he was the contemporary of ... Lord Byron observes , in his preface to " Marino Faliero , " " It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole ...
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With Memoirs and Notes John Heneage Jesse. Lord Lorne took his seat to - day in the ... Lord Chancellor in January , 1761. In May 1764 he was created Earl of ... Byron , in 1765 . 129 FREDERICK , EARL OF CARLISLE . FREDERICK HOWARD , 128 ...
With Memoirs and Notes John Heneage Jesse. Lord Lorne took his seat to - day in the ... Lord Chancellor in January , 1761. In May 1764 he was created Earl of ... Byron , in 1765 . 129 FREDERICK , EARL OF CARLISLE . FREDERICK HOWARD , 128 ...
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... Lord Byron . Lord Carlisle was born on the 22nd of January , 1748 , and when only in his eleventh year succeeded his father as fifth Earl . He was sent at an early age to Eton , from whence he was removed to King's College , Cambridge ...
... Lord Byron . Lord Carlisle was born on the 22nd of January , 1748 , and when only in his eleventh year succeeded his father as fifth Earl . He was sent at an early age to Eton , from whence he was removed to King's College , Cambridge ...
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... Lord Carlisle with the poetry of Lord Byron , inasmuch as the name of the former will probably be only known to after ages from its occurring in the verse of the great poet , -some more extended notice may be considered necessary . - Lord ...
... Lord Carlisle with the poetry of Lord Byron , inasmuch as the name of the former will probably be only known to after ages from its occurring in the verse of the great poet , -some more extended notice may be considered necessary . - Lord ...
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... Lord Byron , of coarse and boisterous manners , -it seems not unlikely that Lord Carlisle had conceived a fixed aversion , which may have served in a great degree to estrange him from his ward . But , on the other hand , Lord Byron , up ...
... Lord Byron , of coarse and boisterous manners , -it seems not unlikely that Lord Carlisle had conceived a fixed aversion , which may have served in a great degree to estrange him from his ward . But , on the other hand , Lord Byron , up ...
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Adieu affectionately afterwards agreeable antè arrived Beauclerk Bedford believe Bolingbroke brother Bunbury CARLISLE TO GEORGE celebrated CHARLES JAMES FOX compliments daughter DEAR GEORGE DEAR SELWYN DEAR SIR desire died dine Duchess Duke of Grafton EARL OF CARLISLE EARL OF MARCH England France French GEORGE SELWYN George the Third GILLY WILLIAMS give glad Gloucester hear HOLLAND TO GEORGE honour hope Horace Walpole John King Lady Holland Lady Sarah letter live London Lord Byron Lord Carlisle Lord Chatham Lord Holland Lord March Madame du Deffand Madame Geoffrin MARCH TO GEORGE Marquis married Matson morning never Newmarket Northumberland obliged Opera Paris Parliament person Pitt pleasure Pray received Rena Royal Highness soon sorry spirits stay sure tell thing to-day to-morrow told town Townshend Turin Viscount White's WILLIAMS TO GEORGE wish write wrote yesterday Zamperini
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Página 294 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 301 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 294 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day ! — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Página 38 - Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools ; Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles, with fancy ever new : Shakes all together, and produces — you.
Página 37 - Alban's family, and having, in some particulars, a resemblance to Charles the Second, contributed, in Johnson's imagination, to throw a lustre upon his other qualities ; ' and in a short time, the moral, pious Johnson, and the gay, dissipated Beauclerk, were companions. ' What a coalition ! ' (said Garrick, when he heard of this) : ' I shall have my old friend to bail out of the round-house.
Página 300 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber; and More near from out the Caesar's palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind.
Página 300 - A grove which springs through levelled battlements, And twines its roots with the imperial hearths, Ivy usurps the laurel's place of growth ; But the gladiators...
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Página 1 - Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may.
Página 36 - I'd have kept them all out. Beauclerk was very earnest for you." BOSWELL. " Beauclerk has a keenness of mind which is very uncommon." JOHNSON. "Yes, Sir; and every thing comes from him so easily. It appears to me that I labour, when I say a good thing.