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... received since , especially what you said to me personally before the Lords , makes it impossible for me to continue you any longer in my service ; but I will give you a pension of four thousand a - year , and I desire , EARL OF OXFORD .
... received since , especially what you said to me personally before the Lords , makes it impossible for me to continue you any longer in my service ; but I will give you a pension of four thousand a - year , and I desire , EARL OF OXFORD .
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John Heneage Jesse. four thousand a - year , and I desire , that instead of bringing the staff to me , you will break it , which , I believe , will be easier to us both . ” * The pension promised in this letter , Anne is said to have ...
John Heneage Jesse. four thousand a - year , and I desire , that instead of bringing the staff to me , you will break it , which , I believe , will be easier to us both . ” * The pension promised in this letter , Anne is said to have ...
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... desire of knowledge were what I felt all my life ; and though my genius , unlike the dæmon of Socrates , whispered so softly , that very often I heard him not in the hurry of those pas- sions with which I was transported , yet some ...
... desire of knowledge were what I felt all my life ; and though my genius , unlike the dæmon of Socrates , whispered so softly , that very often I heard him not in the hurry of those pas- sions with which I was transported , yet some ...
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... desire to wean himself from his former pernicious pursuits , or whether tempted by the advantages of marry- ing a woman of fortune , -he united himself , in 1700 , to a daughter of Sir Henry Winchescomb . Sir Henry was a descendant of ...
... desire to wean himself from his former pernicious pursuits , or whether tempted by the advantages of marry- ing a woman of fortune , -he united himself , in 1700 , to a daughter of Sir Henry Winchescomb . Sir Henry was a descendant of ...
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... desire to defend the peace of Utrecht as either a wise or an honourable measure , it is , nevertheless , impossible to over- rate the steadiness and ability which Boling- broke displayed in the progress of the negotia- tions , nor would ...
... desire to defend the peace of Utrecht as either a wise or an honourable measure , it is , nevertheless , impossible to over- rate the steadiness and ability which Boling- broke displayed in the progress of the negotia- tions , nor would ...
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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...