The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 sider |
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... present one day when Gold- smith , in a circle of good company , began with , " & c . George Langton could not with truth have told this story , he being barely three years old in 1774 , when Goldsmith died . It might have been repeated ...
... present one day when Gold- smith , in a circle of good company , began with , " & c . George Langton could not with truth have told this story , he being barely three years old in 1774 , when Goldsmith died . It might have been repeated ...
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... the hurry of business , in which , from your present situation , you are involved , and which , I have no doubt , you will conduct with fidelity and honour , you will forgive my taking up your time THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 39.
... the hurry of business , in which , from your present situation , you are involved , and which , I have no doubt , you will conduct with fidelity and honour , you will forgive my taking up your time THE PARLOUR WINDOW . 39.
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... present , by joining the retreating forces , among whom his owner afterwards , to his great joy , discovered his faithful charger . I could easily extend this memorandum to a much greater length ; but will abstain , both from regard to ...
... present , by joining the retreating forces , among whom his owner afterwards , to his great joy , discovered his faithful charger . I could easily extend this memorandum to a much greater length ; but will abstain , both from regard to ...
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... present , no such county as Desmond , and only one county of Tyrone ; nor any such county as Col , or Coleraine ; and Derry should be added to the author's list . Galloway and Slego should be Galway and Sligo . Page 5. In his account of ...
... present , no such county as Desmond , and only one county of Tyrone ; nor any such county as Col , or Coleraine ; and Derry should be added to the author's list . Galloway and Slego should be Galway and Sligo . Page 5. In his account of ...
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... present addressed me , in rather a foreign accent , but with much politeness of manner , and said , his name was Sella ; that he was a native of Nuremberg , and had been an officer in the Bavarian army . He then proceeded to say that he ...
... present addressed me , in rather a foreign accent , but with much politeness of manner , and said , his name was Sella ; that he was a native of Nuremberg , and had been an officer in the Bavarian army . He then proceeded to say that he ...
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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.