The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 15Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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... Halifax Politicians of the Popish - Plot Time Tate and Shadwell The Betrayal Charles Dickens 142 . Lord Macaulay 149 Dryden 156 • · Dryden • 160 Thomas Otway 162 · Epitaph on Charles II . · Lord Rochester 171 • Assizes Character of ...
... Halifax Politicians of the Popish - Plot Time Tate and Shadwell The Betrayal Charles Dickens 142 . Lord Macaulay 149 Dryden 156 • · Dryden • 160 Thomas Otway 162 · Epitaph on Charles II . · Lord Rochester 171 • Assizes Character of ...
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... and I will set down the Dickens Surrounded by His Characters Photogravure from the drawing by 142 THE CLOCK CASE . The Clock Case Shaftesbury and Halifax Politicians of the Popish-Plot Time Tate and Shadwell The Betrayal Charles Dickens.
... and I will set down the Dickens Surrounded by His Characters Photogravure from the drawing by 142 THE CLOCK CASE . The Clock Case Shaftesbury and Halifax Politicians of the Popish-Plot Time Tate and Shadwell The Betrayal Charles Dickens.
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... HALIFAX . BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . [ THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY : An English historian and essayist ; born October 25 , 1800 ; son of a noted philanthropist and a Quaker lady ; died at London , December 28 , 1859. He was educated ...
... HALIFAX . BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . [ THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY : An English historian and essayist ; born October 25 , 1800 ; son of a noted philanthropist and a Quaker lady ; died at London , December 28 , 1859. He was educated ...
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... where they find him . For him there is no escape upwards . Every outlet by which he can creep out of his present position is one which lets him down into a still lower and fouler depth of infamy . 150 SHAFTESBURY AND HALIFAX .
... where they find him . For him there is no escape upwards . Every outlet by which he can creep out of his present position is one which lets him down into a still lower and fouler depth of infamy . 150 SHAFTESBURY AND HALIFAX .
Page 151
... age of moons : So guilty sinners in a state Can by their crimes prognosticate , And in their consciences feel pain Some days before a shower of rain . He , therefore , wisely cast about All ways he SHAFTESBURY AND HALIFAX . 151.
... age of moons : So guilty sinners in a state Can by their crimes prognosticate , And in their consciences feel pain Some days before a shower of rain . He , therefore , wisely cast about All ways he SHAFTESBURY AND HALIFAX . 151.
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Page 295 - My friend, I must speak out at the end, Though I find the speaking hard. Praise is deeper than the lips: You have saved the King his ships, You must name your own reward. 'Faith, our sun was near eclipse! Demand whate'er you will, France remains your debtor still. Ask to heart's content and have! or my name's not Damfreville.
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Page 158 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
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