Vicissitudes of Families, Volumen1Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869 |
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Abbey ancestor ancient Ards Baron Baronet Bart became Bouillon brother Buckworth Castle century Charles chief College of Arms Conyers Countess Court Cromwell crown d'Auvergne daughter death descendants died Dublin Duchess Duchy Duchy of Lucca Duke of Ireland Duke of Lucca Duke's Earl of Athol Earl of Menteith Earl of Oxford Earl of Strathern earldom eldest Elizabeth Elizabeth Mure England English father favour Findernes fortune France Francis O'Neill friends gallant gentleman Grand Duke grandson Halston heir heiress Henry honour Hugh illustrious inheritance Ireland Irish John Mytton Knight Lady land Lord Mackenzie Maguire male Marischal marriage married ment Menteith Minister Mytton never Neville noble O'Neill Oglander Parma peerage Percy possession present Prince race reign Richard royal ruin Scotland Scottish Seaforth Sir John Sir Thomas sister Sockburn sons Stafford Stewart tion Vere vicissitudes Ward wife William Wray
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Página 28 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Página 152 - For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ] They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality.
Página 82 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 360 - He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away.
Página 228 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Página 83 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat halfhung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Página 339 - A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. The Boy was sprung to manhood: in the wilds Of fiery climes he made himself a home, And his soul drank their sunbeams: he was girt With strange and dusky aspects; he was not Himself like what he had been; on the sea And on the shore he was a wanderer...
Página 66 - Elizabeth Steward, daughter of William Steward, Esquire, in Ely ; an opulent man, a kind of hereditary Farmer of the Cathedral Tithes and Church lands round that city ; in which capacity his son, Sir Thomas Steward, Knight, in due time succeeded him, resident also at Ely. Elizabeth was a young widow when Robert Cromwell married her : the first marriage, to one ' William Lynne, Esquire, of Bassingbourne in Cambridgeshire...
Página 83 - Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king. No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends ! His grace's fate sage Cutler could foresee, And well (he thought) advised him,
Página 168 - Brahan, or in Kintail. After lamenting over the last and most promising of his sons, he himself shall sink into the grave, and the remnant of his possessions shall be inherited by a lassie from the East, with snow in her bonnet.