Tales of Our Great Families, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... passing the prime of life . So , at any rate , thought Sir Nathaniel Wraxall , who knew many of his friends personally , and who seldom formed an absurd estimate of other men's position in the age of which he writes so amusingly . And ...
... passing the prime of life . So , at any rate , thought Sir Nathaniel Wraxall , who knew many of his friends personally , and who seldom formed an absurd estimate of other men's position in the age of which he writes so amusingly . And ...
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... passing through Germany his vanity was gratified by the bestowal of some petty order of knighthood - far inferior , of course , to the double coronet of a marquis , which he bore as a peer both of England and of Ireland . He played high ...
... passing through Germany his vanity was gratified by the bestowal of some petty order of knighthood - far inferior , of course , to the double coronet of a marquis , which he bore as a peer both of England and of Ireland . He played high ...
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... passed upon the nobleman whose freaks I have here related ; there are still those who claim to be descended from the older barons of Wharton , from whom the Duke was sprung , but whose rights the attainder of their descendant could not ...
... passed upon the nobleman whose freaks I have here related ; there are still those who claim to be descended from the older barons of Wharton , from whom the Duke was sprung , but whose rights the attainder of their descendant could not ...
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... turning his back at the instant . " On his death the Earldom of Temple passed to his nephew , George , the third Earl , who in turn VOL . II . F. mounted another step on the ladder of promotion by his THE DUCAL HOUSE OF BUCKINGHAM . 65.
... turning his back at the instant . " On his death the Earldom of Temple passed to his nephew , George , the third Earl , who in turn VOL . II . F. mounted another step on the ladder of promotion by his THE DUCAL HOUSE OF BUCKINGHAM . 65.
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Edward Walford. at one time the residence of Louis XVIII . - has passed into other hands , and is now owned by an Essex manufacturer ; and , though it is still kept up pretty nearly in the same condition in which it stood a century ago ...
Edward Walford. at one time the residence of Louis XVIII . - has passed into other hands , and is now owned by an Essex manufacturer ; and , though it is still kept up pretty nearly in the same condition in which it stood a century ago ...
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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...