Relics of LiteratureT. Boys, 1823 - 400 pages |
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... interest , and anticipating the happy results to be derived from his moral regeneration , he determined , though he was scarcely twelve years old , to take him to France . He arrived at that period when Louis XVI . and Marie Antoinette ...
... interest , and anticipating the happy results to be derived from his moral regeneration , he determined , though he was scarcely twelve years old , to take him to France . He arrived at that period when Louis XVI . and Marie Antoinette ...
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... interest , his truth too firm for falsehood , his temperance beyond temptation : his conversation is pleasing and affable , his wit is quick , and his judgement is strong , distinguishing clearly without clouds of mistakes ; his ...
... interest , his truth too firm for falsehood , his temperance beyond temptation : his conversation is pleasing and affable , his wit is quick , and his judgement is strong , distinguishing clearly without clouds of mistakes ; his ...
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... interest in whatever concerns your happiness ; and in this view , I sincerely congratulate you on your auspicious matrimonial connexion . I am happy to find that Madame de Chastellux is so im- mediately connected with the Duchess of ...
... interest in whatever concerns your happiness ; and in this view , I sincerely congratulate you on your auspicious matrimonial connexion . I am happy to find that Madame de Chastellux is so im- mediately connected with the Duchess of ...
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... interest me for thee ; and this interest becomes stronger by an infinity of relations , which make me comprehend , that the people whose king I am , and the climate which I inhabit , are more adapted for RELICS OF LITERATURE . 139 The ...
... interest me for thee ; and this interest becomes stronger by an infinity of relations , which make me comprehend , that the people whose king I am , and the climate which I inhabit , are more adapted for RELICS OF LITERATURE . 139 The ...
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... interest . These letters , together with three notes written by queen Anne to her favourite secretary , were sold for five hundred and seventy guineas . The notes themselves do honour to the head and heart of the queen . Two of them are ...
... interest . These letters , together with three notes written by queen Anne to her favourite secretary , were sold for five hundred and seventy guineas . The notes themselves do honour to the head and heart of the queen . Two of them are ...
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Adderbury anagram appears baconne bishop body British Museum called Charles Christian church copy Cordeilla Countess of Rochester court curious daughter dear death devil divine duke earl Earl of Litchfield England English epigram fair father fortune foul papers frae France French gentleman give grace Gruoch half sheets hand happy hath haue heart heaven Henry honour husband isle of Britain James John Kenneth IV king king's knights lady land letter live Llyr London lord Lord Wilmot Macbeth majesty mind never Oliver Cromwell papers parliament person PHILIP MASSINGER poem poet poor pray present prince printed queen received reign Rochester Rome Scotland Selcraige sent servant shal sheets in folio shew soul thee things thou thought translation truth unto Voltaire Whichenour wife wine Witcham words write written yame
Popular passages
Page 339 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 398 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 14 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
Page 200 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 395 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 87 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 68 - The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall, At every stroke the oars did tears let fall ; More clung about the barge ; fish under water Wept out their eyes ofpearle, and swome blind after.
Page 14 - I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.
Page 291 - ... would become, without the belief of a God^ how palsied would be human benevolence, were there not the sense...
Page 291 - ... to uprightness and the public good ; that an oath is unheard in heaven ; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator...