The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 sider |
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... happy both in thought and expression . Nothing , for instance , can be more elegant than Horatio's account of the Opera , pages 14 , 15. His opinions are , however , sometimes extravagant . Page 347 THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 11.
... happy both in thought and expression . Nothing , for instance , can be more elegant than Horatio's account of the Opera , pages 14 , 15. His opinions are , however , sometimes extravagant . Page 347 THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 11.
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... expression and thinking . For passages of eloquent composition , the reader curious in matters of the kind is referred to pages 173-4 , et seq . , of the first edition , London , 1822 . Whatever truth there may be in this autobio ...
... expression and thinking . For passages of eloquent composition , the reader curious in matters of the kind is referred to pages 173-4 , et seq . , of the first edition , London , 1822 . Whatever truth there may be in this autobio ...
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... expression , quia patris , the only difficulty , might refer to a term of endearment applied by Germans to their native country , which they tenderly call Faderland ; so Ludlow might mean that any soil would become , as it were , father ...
... expression , quia patris , the only difficulty , might refer to a term of endearment applied by Germans to their native country , which they tenderly call Faderland ; so Ludlow might mean that any soil would become , as it were , father ...
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... expressions he had used concerning him ; to declare that his wife and daughter were in- nocent ; and to recommend them to the charity of the commissaries and in fine , he declared that in his crime there was neither plot , nor ...
... expressions he had used concerning him ; to declare that his wife and daughter were in- nocent ; and to recommend them to the charity of the commissaries and in fine , he declared that in his crime there was neither plot , nor ...
Side 74
... expressing any passion , or break- ing out into any imprecation . To this first torment , succeeded that of pinching him with red - hot pincers , in the arms , thighs , and breasts . At each pinch he was heard to shriek in the same ...
... expressing any passion , or break- ing out into any imprecation . To this first torment , succeeded that of pinching him with red - hot pincers , in the arms , thighs , and breasts . At each pinch he was heard to shriek in the same ...
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Side 139 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Side 24 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
Side 149 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Side 148 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still...
Side 165 - But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
Side 64 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Side 158 - I did never see before) ; and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look which is pleasing. Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts...
Side 163 - I home by coach, but met not one bonfire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the city at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
Side 165 - Sir H. Cholmly come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting of a poor moth.
Side 170 - W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before : for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it!