Tales of Our Great Families, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... true and certainly are rather curious . He said that Lord ( then Mr. ) Fortescue was in London on the morning of a day in November , 1779 , and went to see Lord Lyttelton - his first cousin― who was then also in town , and who on the ...
... true and certainly are rather curious . He said that Lord ( then Mr. ) Fortescue was in London on the morning of a day in November , 1779 , and went to see Lord Lyttelton - his first cousin― who was then also in town , and who on the ...
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... true and what false . ' I gladly accepted the proposal ; and I think that my recollection is perfect as to the following narrative . " In his youth Mr. Andrews was the boon companion , not to say fellow rake , of Lord Lyttelton , who ...
... true and what false . ' I gladly accepted the proposal ; and I think that my recollection is perfect as to the following narrative . " In his youth Mr. Andrews was the boon companion , not to say fellow rake , of Lord Lyttelton , who ...
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... true that the night before Lord Lyttelton died a fluttering of a bird was heard , and perhaps a bird was seen on his window curtains . It is not true that Mrs. Hum- phreys , or any other departed lady whom he had seduced , appeared to ...
... true that the night before Lord Lyttelton died a fluttering of a bird was heard , and perhaps a bird was seen on his window curtains . It is not true that Mrs. Hum- phreys , or any other departed lady whom he had seduced , appeared to ...
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... true . I confine myself , " he adds , " to the exact words of his narrative . It seems that Lord Lyttelton was fond of horse- play , or what the French call mauvaise plai- santerie ; and , as he had often made Andrews the subject of it ...
... true . I confine myself , " he adds , " to the exact words of his narrative . It seems that Lord Lyttelton was fond of horse- play , or what the French call mauvaise plai- santerie ; and , as he had often made Andrews the subject of it ...
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... True Briton . This undertaking lasted about six months , the paper appearing twice in each week ; and during this time he seems to have exerted all his influence in every way against the Ministry and the Court . He even had himself ...
... True Briton . This undertaking lasted about six months , the paper appearing twice in each week ; and during this time he seems to have exerted all his influence in every way against the Ministry and the Court . He even had himself ...
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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...