Historical and literary memorials of the city of LondonJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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... told , the town was accustomed to crowd of an evening to witness his hydraulic experiments . Steele mentions him in one of his papers in the Tatler , and Evelyn has thought the projector worthy of praise . - One would be glad , but the ...
... told , the town was accustomed to crowd of an evening to witness his hydraulic experiments . Steele mentions him in one of his papers in the Tatler , and Evelyn has thought the projector worthy of praise . - One would be glad , but the ...
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... told what a Piccadilly had been , either fish or flesh . " In Ben Jonson's " Devil is an Ass ; " in Beaumont and Fletcher's " Pilgrim ; " and in Drayton's satirical poem , " The Moon Calf , " will be found more than " one allusion to ...
... told what a Piccadilly had been , either fish or flesh . " In Ben Jonson's " Devil is an Ass ; " in Beaumont and Fletcher's " Pilgrim ; " and in Drayton's satirical poem , " The Moon Calf , " will be found more than " one allusion to ...
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... told his High- ness's levee was very slender , not above three or four noblemen , and they such as have not appeared at St. James's for a long time . All such as are admitted to the king's court are under strict orders not to go at any ...
... told his High- ness's levee was very slender , not above three or four noblemen , and they such as have not appeared at St. James's for a long time . All such as are admitted to the king's court are under strict orders not to go at any ...
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... told , " taking pains to calm the spirit of division and ambition , " made a vain attempt to effect a reconciliation between the rival politicians . Here , a few months afterward , we find Boling- broke entertaining the great Duke of ...
... told , " taking pains to calm the spirit of division and ambition , " made a vain attempt to effect a reconciliation between the rival politicians . Here , a few months afterward , we find Boling- broke entertaining the great Duke of ...
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... told , immediately rose , and offered their congratulations to the new countess . Gay , in his " Epistle to William Pulteney , " has cele- brated the vocal powers of the beautiful songstress : " O soothe me with some soft Italian air ...
... told , immediately rose , and offered their congratulations to the new countess . Gay , in his " Epistle to William Pulteney , " has cele- brated the vocal powers of the beautiful songstress : " O soothe me with some soft Italian air ...
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Page 312 - Mighty victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 435 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 373 - Now mark me how I will undo myself: I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duteous oaths; All pomp and majesty I do forswear; My manors, rents, revenues, I forgo; My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny.
Page 436 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 237 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 303 - Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge, enough The characters of hell to trace...
Page 440 - I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion: when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...
Page 319 - Why doth the crown lie there, upon his pillow, Being so troublesome a bedfellow ? O polish'd perturbation ! golden care ! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night, sleep with it now ! Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet, As he, whose brow with homely biggin bound, Snores out the watch of night.
Page 279 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 460 - Blest be the great ! for those they take away, And those they left me; for they left me Gay : Left me to see neglected genius bloom, 'Neglected die, and tell it on his tomb : Of all thy blameless life the sole return My verse, and Queensberry weeping o'er thy urn...