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... observe , that the matter now presented in a single volume , could not , in any other shape , be procured for twenty times its pre- sent price . H. G. B. YORK STREET , June 1 , 1846 . A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON , AUTHOR ...
... observe , that the matter now presented in a single volume , could not , in any other shape , be procured for twenty times its pre- sent price . H. G. B. YORK STREET , June 1 , 1846 . A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON , AUTHOR ...
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... , the writer of this sketch has followed the Me- moirs in the spelling of this name ; but he thinks it necessary to observe , that it should be Gramont , not Grammont . Earl of Abercorn , a native of Scotland . His B 2 A ...
... , the writer of this sketch has followed the Me- moirs in the spelling of this name ; but he thinks it necessary to observe , that it should be Gramont , not Grammont . Earl of Abercorn , a native of Scotland . His B 2 A ...
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... observed , that , if any book were to be selected , as afford- ing the truest specimen of perfect French gaiety , the Memoirs of Grammont would be selected in preference to all others . This has a Frenchman said of the work of a ...
... observed , that , if any book were to be selected , as afford- ing the truest specimen of perfect French gaiety , the Memoirs of Grammont would be selected in preference to all others . This has a Frenchman said of the work of a ...
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... observations on the resolu- tion he has formed of never dying , and upon the power he seems to possess of carrying it into execution . * That art by which his life he has warded , And death so often has retarded , ' Tis strange to me ...
... observations on the resolu- tion he has formed of never dying , and upon the power he seems to possess of carrying it into execution . * That art by which his life he has warded , And death so often has retarded , ' Tis strange to me ...
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... observed the deep contemplation he seemed involved in , and the profound silence between two persons , who had never held their tongues for a moment when together before , he broke it by a sudden fit of laughter , which increased in ...
... observed the deep contemplation he seemed involved in , and the profound silence between two persons , who had never held their tongues for a moment when together before , he broke it by a sudden fit of laughter , which increased in ...
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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.