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... and a writer , that he has been accused , both in the Quarterly Review and elsewhere of having been the author of the " Letters of Junius . " George I. a part not much less eccentric than that 4 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
... and a writer , that he has been accused , both in the Quarterly Review and elsewhere of having been the author of the " Letters of Junius . " George I. a part not much less eccentric than that 4 TALES OF OUR GREAT FAMILIES .
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... letter to Prince James , -the elder Pretender , " as he was styled by the Hanoverian party , who was then residing at Avignon , and to whom he sent the present of a fine racehorse or hunter . The Chevalier , in turn , resolved not to be ...
... letter to Prince James , -the elder Pretender , " as he was styled by the Hanoverian party , who was then residing at Avignon , and to whom he sent the present of a fine racehorse or hunter . The Chevalier , in turn , resolved not to be ...
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... letter from the Duke to Mr. Walpole , just before his arrival in Paris to place himself in communication with James III . , couched in the most insincere phrases , will be found in Cox's " Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir ...
... letter from the Duke to Mr. Walpole , just before his arrival in Paris to place himself in communication with James III . , couched in the most insincere phrases , will be found in Cox's " Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir ...
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... English tongue which , if we may judge from original letters of the time , even from the pens of English peers , was very uncommon in the reign of George I. To his friend Bishop Atterbury , when in the Tower THE WITTY LORD WHARTON . 45.
... English tongue which , if we may judge from original letters of the time , even from the pens of English peers , was very uncommon in the reign of George I. To his friend Bishop Atterbury , when in the Tower THE WITTY LORD WHARTON . 45.
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... letter to " his friends in Great Britain and Ireland , " ex- plaining his reasons for leaving his native coun- try and espousing the cause of his royal master , " James III . " In this letter he says that he had seen all the Whiggish ...
... letter to " his friends in Great Britain and Ireland , " ex- plaining his reasons for leaving his native coun- try and espousing the cause of his royal master , " James III . " In this letter he says that he had seen all the Whiggish ...
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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...