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... death , the character of the old court of that prince had ceased also : pro- fligacy and gaiety had given way to devotion and austerity . Of Hamilton's friends and literary acquaintance few were left ; the Duke of Berwick was employed ...
... death , the character of the old court of that prince had ceased also : pro- fligacy and gaiety had given way to devotion and austerity . Of Hamilton's friends and literary acquaintance few were left ; the Duke of Berwick was employed ...
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... death was pious and resigned . From his poem , en- titled " Reflections , " * he appears , like some other authors , to have turned his mind , in old age , entirely to those objects of sacred regard , which , sooner or later , must ...
... death was pious and resigned . From his poem , en- titled " Reflections , " * he appears , like some other authors , to have turned his mind , in old age , entirely to those objects of sacred regard , which , sooner or later , must ...
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... death so often has retarded , ' Tis strange to me , The world's envy Has ne'er with jaundiced eye regarded : But mid all anecdotes he tells Of warriors , statesmen , and of belles , With whom he fought , intrigued , and slept , That ...
... death so often has retarded , ' Tis strange to me , The world's envy Has ne'er with jaundiced eye regarded : But mid all anecdotes he tells Of warriors , statesmen , and of belles , With whom he fought , intrigued , and slept , That ...
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... death , in which he touches many of the topics which he here is supposed to recommend to Hamilton . Here lies the Count de Grammont , stranger ! Old Evremont's eternal theme : He who shared Condé's every danger , May envy from the ...
... death , in which he touches many of the topics which he here is supposed to recommend to Hamilton . Here lies the Count de Grammont , stranger ! Old Evremont's eternal theme : He who shared Condé's every danger , May envy from the ...
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... death , his various exploits , his good and bad qualities ; and at last , out of compassion to his failings , brings forward a comparison between him and the unfortunate Mark Antony . In the life of Numa Pompilius , he begins by a ...
... death , his various exploits , his good and bad qualities ; and at last , out of compassion to his failings , brings forward a comparison between him and the unfortunate Mark Antony . In the life of Numa Pompilius , he begins by a ...
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Page 336 - ... all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very fiddlers, in red vests. At last comes in the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster, with the Bishops (many of them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the Nobility, all in their Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight.
Page 435 - EVIL! according to custom, thus: his Majesty sitting under his state in the banqueting house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling, the King strokes their faces, or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them, and he healed them.
Page 337 - Glynne, whose horse fell upon him yesterday, and is like to kill him, which people do please themselves to see how just God is to punish the rogue at such a time as this : he being now one of the King's Serjeants, and rode in the cavalcade with Maynard, to whom people wish the same fortune.
Page 492 - And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee ; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
Page 403 - That the stage is now by his pains a thousand times better and more glorious than ever heretofore. Now, waxcandles, and many of them; then, not above 3 Ibs. of tallow; now, all things civil, no rudeness anywhere; then, as in a bear-garden...
Page 442 - I have a mind to a new wife; but for all that, I will not see an innocent woman abused...
Page 348 - And in the Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom, that ever I saw: and did me good to look at them.
Page 439 - Where London's column, pointing to the skies Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies.
Page 438 - He said, it was a wicked thing to make a poor lady miserable, only because she was his wife, and had no children by him, which was no fault of hers.
Page 442 - In another passage Oates's personal appearance is thus described. — ' He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face ; and a compass there would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter.