Environs of London: Western DivisionWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1842 - 356 páginas |
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... seat of his government , occasioned the return of Dr. Sloane to England , after an absence of about fifteen months ; which period he had most sedulously employed in collecting , from Jamaica and some of the Caribbee Islands , plants and ...
... seat of his government , occasioned the return of Dr. Sloane to England , after an absence of about fifteen months ; which period he had most sedulously employed in collecting , from Jamaica and some of the Caribbee Islands , plants and ...
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... seat of the Duke of Devon- shire a little earthly paradise . The house , notwithstanding Lord Hervey's sarcasm , is a perfect gem , and a worthy monument of the genius and taste of the noble architect . Nowhere in the vicinity of London ...
... seat of the Duke of Devon- shire a little earthly paradise . The house , notwithstanding Lord Hervey's sarcasm , is a perfect gem , and a worthy monument of the genius and taste of the noble architect . Nowhere in the vicinity of London ...
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... seat of the Duke of Marlborough , is in this parish . The Duchess of Kendal , mistress of George I. , resided here . her death , the grounds were opened as a place of public amusement . The Duke of Shrewsbury , a conspicuous character ...
... seat of the Duke of Marlborough , is in this parish . The Duchess of Kendal , mistress of George I. , resided here . her death , the grounds were opened as a place of public amusement . The Duke of Shrewsbury , a conspicuous character ...
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... seat was a toy to play with , get tired of , and fling away . As he says himself , in a letter on his retirement , " What could I see but sons and grandsons playing over the same knaveries that I have seen their fathers and grandfathers ...
... seat was a toy to play with , get tired of , and fling away . As he says himself , in a letter on his retirement , " What could I see but sons and grandsons playing over the same knaveries that I have seen their fathers and grandfathers ...
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... seat in the House . Lord Orford died in the eightieth year of his age , at his house in Berkeley - square , on the 2nd of March , 1797 , and was buried in the family vault at Houghton . In him terminated the male line of the descendants ...
... seat in the House . Lord Orford died in the eightieth year of his age , at his house in Berkeley - square , on the 2nd of March , 1797 , and was buried in the family vault at Houghton . In him terminated the male line of the descendants ...
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Página 262 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweetbriar or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Página 295 - That every man, with him, was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Página 261 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 229 - I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I began to read, and...
Página 5 - Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare Ships, towers, domes, theatres. and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
Página 295 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Página 261 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Página 270 - My eye descending from the Hill, surveys Where Thames among the wanton valleys strays: Thames! the most loved of all the Ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity...
Página 5 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 145 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand: To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign, Thro...