The Age of AnneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 248 pages |
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... whilst it acquiesced in many of Lewis's conquests , yet settled the Jacobite question . Lewis had undertaken to recognise William as King of England , and never more to assist the exiled James in his attempts to regain the crown . of ...
... whilst it acquiesced in many of Lewis's conquests , yet settled the Jacobite question . Lewis had undertaken to recognise William as King of England , and never more to assist the exiled James in his attempts to regain the crown . of ...
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... Whilst the Stuarts were anxious to rule without Parliaments , to be kings indeed , like the French kings , and whilst they were meeting with strong opposition from Englishmen who preferred the old lines of the Constitution , it was not ...
... Whilst the Stuarts were anxious to rule without Parliaments , to be kings indeed , like the French kings , and whilst they were meeting with strong opposition from Englishmen who preferred the old lines of the Constitution , it was not ...
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... Whilst Lewis declared through his ambassador at the Imperial Court that nothing was meant , a French army , of 40,000 men , approached Strassburg , as if for a review , and before any assistance could be sent from Germany ( if any could ...
... Whilst Lewis declared through his ambassador at the Imperial Court that nothing was meant , a French army , of 40,000 men , approached Strassburg , as if for a review , and before any assistance could be sent from Germany ( if any could ...
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... whilst they ruled , so that the ruling was concealed : she had not . The real hero of this reign , the successor of King William in his policy of consistent opposition to France , was John Churchill , Duke of Marlborough . Marl- borough ...
... whilst they ruled , so that the ruling was concealed : she had not . The real hero of this reign , the successor of King William in his policy of consistent opposition to France , was John Churchill , Duke of Marlborough . Marl- borough ...
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... Whilst the English soldiers under Ormond scaled and took the forts , a gallant sea - fight ensued , in which victory fell to the English . The ships charged , and broke the boom . is uncertain what became of the greater part of the ...
... Whilst the English soldiers under Ormond scaled and took the forts , a gallant sea - fight ensued , in which victory fell to the English . The ships charged , and broke the boom . is uncertain what became of the greater part of the ...
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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...