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... fact , however , is that Lord Lyttelton's life had been of so licentious and abandoned a character as to subject him continually to the keenest reproaches of an ac- cusing conscience ; " Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem ...
... fact , however , is that Lord Lyttelton's life had been of so licentious and abandoned a character as to subject him continually to the keenest reproaches of an ac- cusing conscience ; " Nocte dieque suum gestare in pectore testem ...
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... fact that , with all his endeavours , he never could extinguish the dread of an hereafter . He came down to breakfast pale with the agony he suffered in a dream which at first he would not reveal . It turned out that he thought that for ...
... fact that , with all his endeavours , he never could extinguish the dread of an hereafter . He came down to breakfast pale with the agony he suffered in a dream which at first he would not reveal . It turned out that he thought that for ...
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... a character not to be mis- taken . " Lord Brougham confesses in the first volume of his Autobiography that " there never was to all appearance a better authenticated fact than the story of Lord 24 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
... a character not to be mis- taken . " Lord Brougham confesses in the first volume of his Autobiography that " there never was to all appearance a better authenticated fact than the story of Lord 24 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
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Edward Walford. appearance a better authenticated fact than the story of Lord Lyttelton's Ghost . I have heard , " he adds , " my father tell the story , but coupled with his conviction that it was either a pure invention , or the ...
Edward Walford. appearance a better authenticated fact than the story of Lord Lyttelton's Ghost . I have heard , " he adds , " my father tell the story , but coupled with his conviction that it was either a pure invention , or the ...
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... fact that , though he was a violent Puritan and an active partisan of the Parliament during the Great Rebellion , he managed to keep his head safe on his shoulders under Charles II . and James II . , and to leave by his first marriage ...
... fact that , though he was a violent Puritan and an active partisan of the Parliament during the Great Rebellion , he managed to keep his head safe on his shoulders under Charles II . and James II . , and to leave by his first marriage ...
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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 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 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...