Memoirs of the city of London and its celebritiesJ.C. Nimmo, 1901 |
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... FIELDING • XII . RICHARD MOUNTENEY XIII . RALPH THICKNESSE PAGE II • 16 19 23 28 · 36 40 43 45 68 73 99 · 102 · 105 XIV . WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM XV . SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS , K. B. XVI . XVII . XVIII . XIX . XX . GEORGE ...
... FIELDING • XII . RICHARD MOUNTENEY XIII . RALPH THICKNESSE PAGE II • 16 19 23 28 · 36 40 43 45 68 73 99 · 102 · 105 XIV . WILLIAM PITT , EARL OF CHATHAM XV . SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS , K. B. XVI . XVII . XVIII . XIX . XX . GEORGE ...
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... printed in 1747 , and of which the University of Oxford thought sufficiently well to compliment him , in 1748 , with the degree of Doctor of Common Law . CHAPTER XI . HENRY FIELDING . NEVER , perhaps , 122 CELEBRATED ETONIANS .
... printed in 1747 , and of which the University of Oxford thought sufficiently well to compliment him , in 1748 , with the degree of Doctor of Common Law . CHAPTER XI . HENRY FIELDING . NEVER , perhaps , 122 CELEBRATED ETONIANS .
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... Fielding , the greatest novelist of his age and country . Not only was he closely related by blood to the ducal families of Pierrepoint and Villiers , but , as great - grandson to the third Earl of Denbigh , he was also descended from ...
... Fielding , the greatest novelist of his age and country . Not only was he closely related by blood to the ducal families of Pierrepoint and Villiers , but , as great - grandson to the third Earl of Denbigh , he was also descended from ...
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... Fielding- " the prose Homer of human nature , " as Byron styles him — was born at Sharp- ham Park , near Glastonbury , in Somersetshire , on the 22d of April , 1707. His father was Lieut.- Gen. Edmund Fielding , a follower of the Duke ...
... Fielding- " the prose Homer of human nature , " as Byron styles him — was born at Sharp- ham Park , near Glastonbury , in Somersetshire , on the 22d of April , 1707. His father was Lieut.- Gen. Edmund Fielding , a follower of the Duke ...
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... Fielding , who , though blind from his youth , played so useful and active a part in his double capacity of a magistrate at Bow Street and as a philanthropist . Henry Fielding imbibed the first rudiments of learning from a clergyman of ...
... Fielding , who , though blind from his youth , played so useful and active a part in his double capacity of a magistrate at Bow Street and as a philanthropist . Henry Fielding imbibed the first rudiments of learning from a clergyman of ...
Términos y frases comunes
According accordingly admiration afterward appears appointed Bishop born brother Bute's Cambridge chancellor Charles Hanbury Williams Church court daughter death died Doctor Johnson Duke of Grafton Earl eloquence eminent England Etonian father favourite Fielding Fielding's former fortune genius George Grenville George Selwyn Gray hand happily Henry honour Horace Walpole House of Commons House of Lords illustrious instance John king King's College Lady lastly less literary London Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Holland Lord Lyttelton Lord Temple married master meantime ment merit mind minister Montagu month mother never occasion Parliament person Pitt Pitt's poet political Prince probably rendered resigned Richard royal closet scarcely scholar schoolfellow secretary seems Selwyn Sir Charles Hanbury Sir Charles's Sir Robert Sneyd Davies sovereign statesman tion Tom Jones Townshend verses virtues Whig wife writes Lord writes Walpole young
Pasajes populares
Página 343 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Página 90 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Página 263 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...
Página 89 - Charlotte, shall from her sympathetic breast send forth the heaving sigh. Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.
Página 377 - But hark ! the portals sound, and pacing forth With solemn steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of royal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go : Great Edward, with the lilies on his brow From haughty Gallia torn...
Página 142 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 198 - you shall be my confessor: when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christiau religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Página 87 - Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had had the advantage of a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company...
Página 127 - But if he be resolved to assume the right of advising his Majesty, and directing the operations of the war, to what purpose are we called to this council ? When he talks of being responsible to the people, he talks the language of the House of Commons, and forgets, that at this board, he is only responsible to the King.
Página 313 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...