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... English barony of Lyttelton in Feb- ruary , 1780 . The following is the narrative of the same event in the handwriting of the late Sir Digby Neave : " Thomas Lord Lyttelton died in 1779 , at his residence at Pit Place , Epsom . In 1828 ...
... English barony of Lyttelton in Feb- ruary , 1780 . The following is the narrative of the same event in the handwriting of the late Sir Digby Neave : " Thomas Lord Lyttelton died in 1779 , at his residence at Pit Place , Epsom . In 1828 ...
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... English history in the reign of the first two Georges , have heard at all events of the name of the witty Duke of Wharton ; and if they do not remember him in prose history , they will not forget the character of him drawn by Pope in ...
... English history in the reign of the first two Georges , have heard at all events of the name of the witty Duke of Wharton ; and if they do not remember him in prose history , they will not forget the character of him drawn by Pope in ...
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... English ambassador at the Tuileries , Lord Stair , to whose table he was often invited as a guest . The story goes that , in order to get the money from the Queen - who is said even to have pledged her jewels in order to raise it for ...
... English ambassador at the Tuileries , Lord Stair , to whose table he was often invited as a guest . The story goes that , in order to get the money from the Queen - who is said even to have pledged her jewels in order to raise it for ...
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... English Cyclopedia , " we 66 If , " should pray instead for King George , which he accordingly did : so you see that Whigs of all ages are made in the same way . " * A letter from the Duke to Mr. Walpole , just before his arrival in ...
... English Cyclopedia , " we 66 If , " should pray instead for King George , which he accordingly did : so you see that Whigs of all ages are made in the same way . " * A letter from the Duke to Mr. Walpole , just before his arrival in ...
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... English dukedom on record ; and perhaps it may be regarded also as the most singular passage even in Wharton's remarkable career . Notwith- standing the practice which then prevailed of conferring that dignity with much less reserve ...
... English dukedom on record ; and perhaps it may be regarded also as the most singular passage even in Wharton's remarkable career . Notwith- standing the practice which then prevailed of conferring that dignity with much less reserve ...
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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...