So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone-rock in Eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless ships that came near it, steals gradually away the strength by which character is held together, till, at last,... The History of England - Página 239de Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1826 - 952 páginas
...attraction, like the loadstone rock in Eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless stiips that came near it, steals gradually away the strength...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces a wreck !" Of this precious simile, calculated to dazzle Cockneys, and delight Radicals, it is haidly necessary... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 826 páginas
...beautiful songs — 1812> " Friends, fortune, fame itself I'd lose, To gain one smile from thee !" So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, — whose...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck ! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on this occasion, we find him, in one of... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 páginas
...his own beautiful songs — " Friends, fortune, fame itself I'd lose, To gain one smile from thee!" So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, whose...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck ! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on ibis occasion, we find him, in one of... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 474 páginas
...one smile from thee. So fatal, too often, are royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone in eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces — a wreck ! As a proof of the fettering influence under which Sheridan acted on this occasion, we find him, in... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 462 páginas
...beautiful songs :— So fatal, too often, .are royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone in eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless...till at last it loosens at all points, and falls to pieces—a wreck ! As a proof of the fettering influence under which Sheridan acted on this occasion,... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 466 páginas
...beautiful songs : — So fatal, too often, are royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone in eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless...which character is held together, till at last it Joosens at all points, and falls to pieces — a wreck ! As a proof of the fettering influence under... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 páginas
...his own beautiful songs — " Friends, fortune,_/a:me itself I'd lose, To gain one smile from thee !" So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, whose...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on this occasion, we find him, in one of his... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 530 páginas
...his movements, and whose spell over him was too strong even for his sense of character ; observing, in his own beautiful language ; — ' so fatal, too...which the regent's favor depended, was gone for ever; and their unlucky phrase of ' riding rough-shod through Carlton-house,' was not lost on a mind like... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 532 páginas
...too often, are royal friendships ; whose attraction, like the loadstonerock in Eastern fable, which drew the nails out of the luckless ships that came...vehement outcry was raised by all parties against the whig leaders; and if there was any remnant of attachment, on which the regent's favor depended, it... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1853 - 360 páginas
...attraction, like the loadstone-rock in Eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless ship that came near it, steals gradually away the strength...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on this occasion, we find him in one of his... | |
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