England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain).

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Pàgina 270 - Cumberland, for a memorial of her last parting in this place, with her good and pious mother...
Pàgina 284 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here ; and I humbly beg your majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me.
Pàgina 12 - BACON (SiR NICHOLAS), lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of queen Elizabeth, descended from an ancient and honourable family in Suffolk.
Pàgina 107 - Here lies HENRY ST. JOHN, : In the Reign of Queen Anne Secretary of War, Secretary of State, and Viscount Bolingbroke: In the Days of King George I. and King George II. Something more and better.
Pàgina 68 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Pàgina 235 - He was secretary to the Admiralty in the reign of Charles II. and James II. " He first (says Granger, Biogr.
Pàgina 21 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Pàgina 89 - was I, as it were, by these still legible names, brought into personal contact with Addison, and Steele, and Congreve, and Garth, and Dryden, and with many hereditary nobles, remembered only because they were patrons of those natural nobles ! — I read their names aloud ! — I invoked their departed spirits!
Pàgina 138 - Batten, and I, by coach to Bednall Green to Sir W. Rider's to dinner. A fine merry walk with the ladies alone after dinner in the garden ; the greatest quantity of strawberries I ever saw, and good.
Pàgina 356 - Castle, the place designed for her accouchement. When the time of her delivery was come, king | Edward called to him all the barons and chief persons throughout all Wales, to Rhuddlan, there to consult about the public good, and safety of their country. And being informed that his queen was delivered of a son, he told the Welsh nobility, that whereas they had oftentimes entreated him to appoint them a prince, he having at this time...

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