The Parlour Window: Or, AnecdotesE. Lumley, 1841 - 179 sider |
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... day , I have a story to tell , the truth of which he himself confirmed to me , as far as manly pride would let him . During the heat of conflict , a seaman was brought to the doctor in the cockpit , to THE PARLOUR WINDOW .
... day , I have a story to tell , the truth of which he himself confirmed to me , as far as manly pride would let him . During the heat of conflict , a seaman was brought to the doctor in the cockpit , to THE PARLOUR WINDOW .
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... story is in circulation with respect to those papers called " the Mercuries ; " viz . that many of the copies in the British Museum , long con- cluded to be original , are forgeries ; and it is added , that in these falsifications the ...
... story is in circulation with respect to those papers called " the Mercuries ; " viz . that many of the copies in the British Museum , long con- cluded to be original , are forgeries ; and it is added , that in these falsifications the ...
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... story , he being barely three years old in 1774 , when Goldsmith died . It might have been repeated by George's father , Bennett Langton . " " Page 58. This story ( of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield ) has been related with singular ...
... story , he being barely three years old in 1774 , when Goldsmith died . It might have been repeated by George's father , Bennett Langton . " " Page 58. This story ( of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield ) has been related with singular ...
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... story of no individual of eminence abounds more in misrepresentation than that of Richard . To obtain any true idea of him , we must refer to actions neither disproved nor doubted ; and to such facts as are alleged without any obvious ...
... story of no individual of eminence abounds more in misrepresentation than that of Richard . To obtain any true idea of him , we must refer to actions neither disproved nor doubted ; and to such facts as are alleged without any obvious ...
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... story - book , or like Charles II . in the oak - tree of Boscobel on the sign of a country ale - house ! Probably , his martial helmet was surmounted by some ornament resem- bling a kingly diadem . See page 82 of Hutton's narrative ...
... story - book , or like Charles II . in the oak - tree of Boscobel on the sign of a country ale - house ! Probably , his martial helmet was surmounted by some ornament resem- bling a kingly diadem . See page 82 of Hutton's narrative ...
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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.