Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2Estes and Lauriat, 1880 |
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... England . Pepys learned them , as he tells us , from the counsellors of Charles the Second . Pitt was no loser . He was made Groom of the Bed- chamber to the Prince of Wales , and continued to declaim against the ministers with unabated ...
... England . Pepys learned them , as he tells us , from the counsellors of Charles the Second . Pitt was no loser . He was made Groom of the Bed- chamber to the Prince of Wales , and continued to declaim against the ministers with unabated ...
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... England . One concession the ministers graciously made . They agreed that Pitt should not be placed in a situation in which it would be necessary for him to have frequent inter- views with the King . Instead , therefore , of making ...
... England . One concession the ministers graciously made . They agreed that Pitt should not be placed in a situation in which it would be necessary for him to have frequent inter- views with the King . Instead , therefore , of making ...
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... England took every day a more unfavor- able aspect . Towards the close of the session the King sent a message to inform the House of Commons that he had found it necessary to make preparations for war . The House returned an address of ...
... England took every day a more unfavor- able aspect . Towards the close of the session the King sent a message to inform the House of Commons that he had found it necessary to make preparations for war . The House returned an address of ...
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... England had ever been engaged . Newcastle now began to tremble for his place , and for the only thing which was dearer to him than his place , his neck . The people were not in a mood to be trifled with . Their cry was for blood . For ...
... England had ever been engaged . Newcastle now began to tremble for his place , and for the only thing which was dearer to him than his place , his neck . The people were not in a mood to be trifled with . Their cry was for blood . For ...
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... England as an Athenian loved the City of the Violet Crown , as a Roman loved the City of the Seven Hills . He saw his country insulted and de- feated . He saw the national spirit sinking . Yet he knew what the resources of the empire ...
... England as an Athenian loved the City of the Violet Crown , as a Roman loved the City of the Seven Hills . He saw his country insulted and de- feated . He saw the national spirit sinking . Yet he knew what the resources of the empire ...
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Page 466 - Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 645 - I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank, I impeach the common enemy and oppressor of all !" When the deep murmur of various emotions had subsided, Mr.
Page 200 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame...
Page 552 - ... that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawingroom. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
Page 132 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared, king and queen of England...
Page 317 - Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.
Page 211 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours; but I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want.
Page 144 - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
Page 252 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 552 - O'er my dim eyeballs glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks and unpolluted air ? How sweet the glooms beneath...