The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 sider |
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... never Rector of Ath- lone . He held the perpetual cure of St. Peter's , in that town . He was Doctor of Medicine , not D.D. In a note to page 102 , Mr. Prior says , " the Re- verend Doctor Strean , in an Essay on Light Read- ing , ' by ...
... never Rector of Ath- lone . He held the perpetual cure of St. Peter's , in that town . He was Doctor of Medicine , not D.D. In a note to page 102 , Mr. Prior says , " the Re- verend Doctor Strean , in an Essay on Light Read- ing , ' by ...
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... never did a kinder heart animate a well - stored head . " It were greatly to be desired that Doctor D. would please to tell his reader the meaning of this sentence ! Page 249 , vol . ii . note . " In the poetical epistle which concludes ...
... never did a kinder heart animate a well - stored head . " It were greatly to be desired that Doctor D. would please to tell his reader the meaning of this sentence ! Page 249 , vol . ii . note . " In the poetical epistle which concludes ...
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... the first we can light on , that are above forty , and were brought up to hard labour from their infancy ; such as never went to school at all , and always lived remote from knowledge , and great towns . 10 THE PARLOUR WINDOW .
... the first we can light on , that are above forty , and were brought up to hard labour from their infancy ; such as never went to school at all , and always lived remote from knowledge , and great towns . 10 THE PARLOUR WINDOW .
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... never gone into company without first swallowing a small dose of opium ; that to this practice she was indebted for her reputation as a witty and agreeable companion ; and that if she must leave it off , she would at the same time ...
... never gone into company without first swallowing a small dose of opium ; that to this practice she was indebted for her reputation as a witty and agreeable companion ; and that if she must leave it off , she would at the same time ...
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... never did , believe , any more than Dr. Johnson did , that the half - educated boy was the inventor of Rowley's poems ; and that the Mercuries in the great national depository are not genuine , is more than improbable . That No. of the ...
... never did , believe , any more than Dr. Johnson did , that the half - educated boy was the inventor of Rowley's poems ; and that the Mercuries in the great national depository are not genuine , is more than improbable . That No. of the ...
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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!