Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... lady also , wife to Sir John Ayres , knight , who find- ing some means to get a copy of my picture from Larkin , gave it to Mr. Isaac Oliver , the painter in Blackfriars , and desired him to draw it in little after his manner ; which ...
... lady also , wife to Sir John Ayres , knight , who find- ing some means to get a copy of my picture from Larkin , gave it to Mr. Isaac Oliver , the painter in Blackfriars , and desired him to draw it in little after his manner ; which ...
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... lady ( who I believe was the fairest of her time ) as nothing could divert it . I had not been long in London , when a violent burning fever seized upon me , which brought me almost to my death , though at last I did by slow degrees ...
... lady ( who I believe was the fairest of her time ) as nothing could divert it . I had not been long in London , when a violent burning fever seized upon me , which brought me almost to my death , though at last I did by slow degrees ...
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... Lady Ayres . She , to vindicate her honour , as well as free me from this accusation , sent a letter to her aunt the Lady Crook , to this purpose : That her husband Sir John Ayres did lie falsely ; but most falsely of all did lie when ...
... Lady Ayres . She , to vindicate her honour , as well as free me from this accusation , sent a letter to her aunt the Lady Crook , to this purpose : That her husband Sir John Ayres did lie falsely ; but most falsely of all did lie when ...
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... Lady Batten a parrot , the best I ever saw , that knew Mingo so soon as it saw him , having been bred formerly in the house with them ; but for talking and singing I never heard the like . My Lady did accept of it . Then to see ...
... Lady Batten a parrot , the best I ever saw , that knew Mingo so soon as it saw him , having been bred formerly in the house with them ; but for talking and singing I never heard the like . My Lady did accept of it . Then to see ...
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... ladies went to dance , and among the men we had , I was forced to dance , too ; and did make an ugly shift . Mrs. R. Allen danced very well , and seems the best humoured woman that ever I saw . About nine o'clock Sir William and my Lady ...
... ladies went to dance , and among the men we had , I was forced to dance , too ; and did make an ugly shift . Mrs. R. Allen danced very well , and seems the best humoured woman that ever I saw . About nine o'clock Sir William and my Lady ...
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Página 617 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 71 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 78 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 459 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 61 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 325 - How happy he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep ; Nor surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...
Página 371 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 257 - The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of Thirty-eight, of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author that they might be fairly copied. " Almost every line," he said,
Página 212 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 454 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].