The Age of AnneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 248 pages |
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... George I. ) Five stages in his reign marked by— ( 1 ) Treaty of Westphalia , which ended the Thirty Years ' War PAGE ΙΟ ΙΙ 12 13 1668 ( 2 ) Treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle , which , forced on Lewis by the Triple Alliance , ended the War ...
... George I. ) Five stages in his reign marked by— ( 1 ) Treaty of Westphalia , which ended the Thirty Years ' War PAGE ΙΟ ΙΙ 12 13 1668 ( 2 ) Treaty of Aix - la - Chapelle , which , forced on Lewis by the Triple Alliance , ended the War ...
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... George Rooke CHAPTER VI . RISING IN THE CEVENNES . The strength of the Huguenots in the valleys of the Loire and the lower Rhone The Camisards ( ' Wearers of the white frock ' ) 1703 Rise under Jean Cavalier and others 1684 The ...
... George Rooke CHAPTER VI . RISING IN THE CEVENNES . The strength of the Huguenots in the valleys of the Loire and the lower Rhone The Camisards ( ' Wearers of the white frock ' ) 1703 Rise under Jean Cavalier and others 1684 The ...
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... George I. His merits as a king for England · 176 176 • 177 178 • 178 179 180 CHAPTER XIX . END OF LEWIS XIV . 1715 Sept. 1 Death of Lewis XIV . 1643-1715 Events in England parallel with his reign His later life clouded by trouble Death ...
... George I. His merits as a king for England · 176 176 • 177 178 • 178 179 180 CHAPTER XIX . END OF LEWIS XIV . 1715 Sept. 1 Death of Lewis XIV . 1643-1715 Events in England parallel with his reign His later life clouded by trouble Death ...
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... George of Denmark , a man of dull understanding and of coarse habits . ' I have tried him drunk , and I have tried him sober , ' said Charles II . , of him , and there is nothing in him . ' Had he been a man of more capacity , it is not ...
... George of Denmark , a man of dull understanding and of coarse habits . ' I have tried him drunk , and I have tried him sober , ' said Charles II . , of him , and there is nothing in him . ' Had he been a man of more capacity , it is not ...
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... George to the office of Lord High Admiral , an office for which he was manifestly unfit . Lady Marl- borough . It has been said that the queen was entirely under the influence of favourites . At her accession , and for many years before ...
... George to the office of Lord High Admiral , an office for which he was manifestly unfit . Lady Marl- borough . It has been said that the queen was entirely under the influence of favourites . At her accession , and for many years before ...
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Page 221 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Page 218 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 169 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 230 - Peace to all such! But were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please. And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yev with jealous eyes.
Page 229 - Methinks I hear the drum's tumultuous sound The victor's shouts and dying groans confound, The dreadful burst of cannon rend the skies, And all the thunder of the battle rise.
Page 211 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ? That learned body wanted loyalty : To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Page 230 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 206 - ... common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it. The food often grows in one country, and the sauce in another. The fruits of Portugal are corrected by the products of Barbadoes : the infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.
Page 230 - Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plastered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...