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... of pleasure with " too much eagerness . " He grew into high favour with Charles the Second and his gay courtiers ; became a friend of the wits ; and imbibing the spirit of the circles to which he 2 B DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM . 3.
... of pleasure with " too much eagerness . " He grew into high favour with Charles the Second and his gay courtiers ; became a friend of the wits ; and imbibing the spirit of the circles to which he 2 B DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM . 3.
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... friendship and relieved the distresses of the immortal Dryden . The great poet says , in dedicating to him his tragedy of " Aurenge - Zebe , " " I am sure you will more easily permit me to be silent in the care you have taken of my ...
... friendship and relieved the distresses of the immortal Dryden . The great poet says , in dedicating to him his tragedy of " Aurenge - Zebe , " " I am sure you will more easily permit me to be silent in the care you have taken of my ...
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... friends are said to have followed his advice . Among those , how- ever , who had originally proposed to attend him , but who still thought it incumbent upon them to keep their word , was the Earl of Plymouth , a natural son of Charles ...
... friends are said to have followed his advice . Among those , how- ever , who had originally proposed to attend him , but who still thought it incumbent upon them to keep their word , was the Earl of Plymouth , a natural son of Charles ...
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... friendship to give her my sincere opinion of it . I acted honourably and did so . She seemed to take it patiently , and , upon many exceptions which I made , engaged me to take the whole , and select out of it just as much as I judged ...
... friendship to give her my sincere opinion of it . I acted honourably and did so . She seemed to take it patiently , and , upon many exceptions which I made , engaged me to take the whole , and select out of it just as much as I judged ...
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... friends she sent word , that , for their better convenience , she was willing to introduce them to the show by a private door . - Horace Walpole , in a letter to Sir Horace Mann , dated 24th December , 1741 , relates an amusing anecdote ...
... friends she sent word , that , for their better convenience , she was willing to introduce them to the show by a private door . - Horace Walpole , in a letter to Sir Horace Mann , dated 24th December , 1741 , relates an amusing anecdote ...
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Memoirs of the Court of England from ... 1688 to the Death of George the Second John Heneage Jesse No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 365 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal...
Page 380 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Page 413 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that, if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should...
Page 178 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
Page 368 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, ' A painted mistress, or a purling stream.
Page 104 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest - -young man I ever knew; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners; generous, and a despiser of money.
Page 344 - ... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well : so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them.
Page 219 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 212 - Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow : Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Page 199 - I said to my heart, between sleeping and waking, ' Thou wild thing that always art leaping or aching, What black, brown, or fair, in what clime, in what nation, By turns has not taught thee a pit-a-pat-ation ? ' " Thus accused, the wild thing gave this sober reply : ' See, the heart without motion, though Celia pass by ! Not the beauty she has, not the wit that she borrows, Give the eye any joys, or the heart any sorrows. « ' When our Sappho appears, — she, whose wit so refined I am forced to...