Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey |
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... known to Careless . ' How this poor drudge , being knocked up from his snoring , ' carried them into a little barn full of hay , which was a better lodging than he had for himself ; ' and by and by , not with- out difficulty , brought ...
... known to Careless . ' How this poor drudge , being knocked up from his snoring , ' carried them into a little barn full of hay , which was a better lodging than he had for himself ; ' and by and by , not with- out difficulty , brought ...
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... known how innocent I was from pretending to any thing which might wrong him or his lady ; since I could not so much as imagine that either she had my picture , or that she bare more than ordinary affection to me . It is true that she ...
... known how innocent I was from pretending to any thing which might wrong him or his lady ; since I could not so much as imagine that either she had my picture , or that she bare more than ordinary affection to me . It is true that she ...
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... known to his contemporaries in a halo of almost historical pomp , and to his remote descendants with an indecent familiarity , like a taproom comrade ; second , because he has outstripped all competitors in the art or virtue of a ...
... known to his contemporaries in a halo of almost historical pomp , and to his remote descendants with an indecent familiarity , like a taproom comrade ; second , because he has outstripped all competitors in the art or virtue of a ...
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... known by his buying of clove and mace of the East India prizes . At night home to my lodging , where I find my wife returned with my things . It being Twelfth - Night , they had got the fiddler , and mighty merry they were ; and I above ...
... known by his buying of clove and mace of the East India prizes . At night home to my lodging , where I find my wife returned with my things . It being Twelfth - Night , they had got the fiddler , and mighty merry they were ; and I above ...
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... known ; and , that I may cite all at once , Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me that Mr. Vaughan did protest to him , and that , in his hearing , he said so to the Duke of Albemarle , and afterwards to Sir W. Coventry , that he had ...
... known ; and , that I may cite all at once , Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me that Mr. Vaughan did protest to him , and that , in his hearing , he said so to the Duke of Albemarle , and afterwards to Sir W. Coventry , that he had ...
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Page 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.
Page 73 - 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.
Page 80 - 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.
Page 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.
Page 63 - ... 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.
Page 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.
Page 325 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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Page 202 - Achilles strove; Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove Declare, O Muse, in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended Power! Latona's...