A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End of George I's Reign: Being a Continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's Work ; Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes; and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads ; Interspersed with a Variety of Anecdotes, and Memoirs of a Great Number of Persons, Volum 1W. Richardson, 1806 |
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A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End ..., Volum 1 Mark Noble Visualització completa - 1806 |
A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End ..., Volum 1 Mark Noble Visualització completa - 1806 |
A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End ..., Volum 1 Mark Noble Visualització completa - 1806 |
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Pàgina 250 - When love was all an easy monarch's care; Seldom at council, never in a war; Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit; The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimproved away ; The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blush'd before.
Pàgina 352 - Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.
Pàgina 258 - He has made the world merry, and I hope they will make him easy so long as he stays among us. This I will take upon me to say, they cannot do a kindness to a more diverting companion, or a more cheerful, honest, and good-natured man.* No.
Pàgina 105 - A dean and prebendary Had once a new vagary, And were at doubtful strife, sir, Who led the better life, sir, And was the better man, And was the better man. The dean he said, that truly, Since Bluff was so unruly, He'd prove it to his face, sir, That he had the most grace, sir, And so the fight began, &c.
Pàgina 105 - Twas nothing but a sham. That as for father Adam, With Mrs. Eve, his madam, And what the serpent spoke, sir, 'Twas nothing but a joke, sir, And well-invented flam, &c.
Pàgina 375 - Bucks), in a cave, had been a man of tolerable wealth, was looked upon as a pretty good scholar, and of no contemptible parts. Upon the Restoration he grew melancholy, betook himself to a recluse life...
Pàgina 290 - Painters of history," said he, " make the dead live, and do not begin to live themselves till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live...
Pàgina 281 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Pàgina 186 - On the accession of Queen Anne, he was made a Lieutenant-General of the Forces in Holland; Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in Ireland under the Duke of Ormond, March 23, 1705 ; and, ' to keep him out of the way of action,' subsequently one of the Lords Justices, a circumstance which it is said broke his heart.
Pàgina 259 - I sing of a duel in Epsom befel Twixt fa sol la D'Urfey and sol la mi Bell : But why do I mention the scribbling brother ? For naming the one, you may guess at the other. Betwixt them there happened a terrible clutter ; Bell set up the loud pipes, and D'Urfey did sputter.