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... Charles , ended his wild and mad career , exiled and attainted , in an obscure monastery of Catalonia , worn out , as we shall presently see , by his desperate efforts in pursuit of pleasure . In the straggling town of Epsom , which at ...
... Charles , ended his wild and mad career , exiled and attainted , in an obscure monastery of Catalonia , worn out , as we shall presently see , by his desperate efforts in pursuit of pleasure . In the straggling town of Epsom , which at ...
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... Charles II . and James II . , and to leave by his first marriage an only daughter , from whom the present Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and Lord Cholmondeley are maternally descended ; and also by his second marriage a son , Thomas , who in ...
... Charles II . and James II . , and to leave by his first marriage an only daughter , from whom the present Lady Willoughby d'Eresby and Lord Cholmondeley are maternally descended ; and also by his second marriage a son , Thomas , who in ...
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... Charles V. , a double dispen- sation from Rome would have been necessary , and there was certainly no time even to apply for one , much less to procure one . It is clear from what I have written above that the Duke was a man of a high ...
... Charles V. , a double dispen- sation from Rome would have been necessary , and there was certainly no time even to apply for one , much less to procure one . It is clear from what I have written above that the Duke was a man of a high ...
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... Charles K. Kemeys Tynte , of Halse- well , Somersetshire , in right of his descent from Mary her elder sister . Mr. Tynte's father pre- ferred a claim for his peerage about thirty or forty years ago , but his claim has never been ...
... Charles K. Kemeys Tynte , of Halse- well , Somersetshire , in right of his descent from Mary her elder sister . Mr. Tynte's father pre- ferred a claim for his peerage about thirty or forty years ago , but his claim has never been ...
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... father had been a leading Member of the House of Commons at the time of Charles II .; and her brother , who had served as lieutenant - general under Marlborough in the Low Countries , was created Lord 64 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
... father had been a leading Member of the House of Commons at the time of Charles II .; and her brother , who had served as lieutenant - general under Marlborough in the Low Countries , was created Lord 64 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 324 - Second Edition. Demy 8vo. Price 30s. Completing the Work. *' These concluding volumes of Mr. Dixon's * History of two Queens ' will be perused with keen interest by thousands of readers. Whilst no less valuable to the student, they will be far more enthralling to the general reader than the earlier half of the history. Every page of what may be termed Anne Boleyn's story affords a happy illustration of the author's vivid and picturesque style. The work should be found in every library."— Post.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - 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, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 325 - Litolff, &c., whether as composers or executants, are in a liberal spirit He recognizes cheerfully the talents of our native artists, Sir Sterndale Bennett, Mr. Macfarren, Madame Arabella Goddard, Mr. John Barnett, Mr. Hullah, Mrs. Shaw, Mr. A. Sullivan, &c. The celebrities with whom Moscheles came in contact, include Sir Walter Scott, Sir Robert Peel, the late Duke of Cambridge, the Bunsens, Louis Philippe, Napoleon the Third, Humboldt, Henry Heine, Thomas More, Count Nesselrode, the Duchess of...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...