The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 sider |
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... , but came out to her ladythip , with his napkin in his hand , heard her request , and , saying that he could not , as he wished , grant her an order , but that , whatever party feelings might dictate , he F 3 THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 53.
... , but came out to her ladythip , with his napkin in his hand , heard her request , and , saying that he could not , as he wished , grant her an order , but that , whatever party feelings might dictate , he F 3 THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 53.
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... heard of the original summons sent by Cromwell to the mayor of Drogheda ; and that it was in these words : " Mr. Mayor ! send us the keys of your town by the bearer , or , by the living God , I will force the place , and cut the throats ...
... heard of the original summons sent by Cromwell to the mayor of Drogheda ; and that it was in these words : " Mr. Mayor ! send us the keys of your town by the bearer , or , by the living God , I will force the place , and cut the throats ...
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... heard a different opinion from Captain Skinner , the commander of a packet , as it was termed , from Dublin to Holyhead . After being in that service more than forty years , and having made , on an average , at least two thousand ...
... heard a different opinion from Captain Skinner , the commander of a packet , as it was termed , from Dublin to Holyhead . After being in that service more than forty years , and having made , on an average , at least two thousand ...
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... heard him say that he supposed no man had oftener escaped death than he had in his voyages across the Irish Sea . He conveyed George IV . in his steamer to Ireland . JOURNAL OF AN OFFICER , & c . * The author , a medical officer , and a ...
... heard him say that he supposed no man had oftener escaped death than he had in his voyages across the Irish Sea . He conveyed George IV . in his steamer to Ireland . JOURNAL OF AN OFFICER , & c . * The author , a medical officer , and a ...
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... heard a great way off . A moment afterwards he raised his head , and looked for some time earnestly at his hand , without renewing his cries , and without expressing any passion , or break- ing out into any imprecation . To this first ...
... heard a great way off . A moment afterwards he raised his head , and looked for some time earnestly at his hand , without renewing his cries , and without expressing any passion , or break- ing out into any imprecation . To this first ...
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Side 163 - Macbeth," which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.
Side 149 - O 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 27 - Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.
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 167 - ... so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life. We found a shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him...
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.