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... Less celebrated Wits WILLIAM CONGREVE . P. 109 When and where was he born ? -The Middle Temple . - Congreve finds his Vocation . -Verses to Queen Mary . - The Tennis - court Theatre . - Congreve abandons the Drama . - Jeremy Collier ...
... Less celebrated Wits WILLIAM CONGREVE . P. 109 When and where was he born ? -The Middle Temple . - Congreve finds his Vocation . -Verses to Queen Mary . - The Tennis - court Theatre . - Congreve abandons the Drama . - Jeremy Collier ...
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... less brave than witty . Juvenile as he was , with a brother still younger , they fought on the royalist side at Lichfield , in the storming of the Cathedral Close . For thus allowing their lives to be endangered , their mother blamed ...
... less brave than witty . Juvenile as he was , with a brother still younger , they fought on the royalist side at Lichfield , in the storming of the Cathedral Close . For thus allowing their lives to be endangered , their mother blamed ...
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... less harassed riders . But not so rapidly did they in reality proceed . A Catholic family , named Giffard , were living at White - Ladies , about twenty - six miles from Worcester . This was only about half a mile from Boscobel : it had ...
... less harassed riders . But not so rapidly did they in reality proceed . A Catholic family , named Giffard , were living at White - Ladies , about twenty - six miles from Worcester . This was only about half a mile from Boscobel : it had ...
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... less patience than other men do their pains . ' The more effectually to support his character as a mounte- bank , Villiers sold mithridate and galbanum plasters : thou- sands of spectators and customers thronged every day to see and ...
... less patience than other men do their pains . ' The more effectually to support his character as a mounte- bank , Villiers sold mithridate and galbanum plasters : thou- sands of spectators and customers thronged every day to see and ...
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... less to blame in her choice than her father , who ought to have advised her against the marriage . Where and how they met is not known . Mary was not attractive in person : she was in her youth little , brown , and thin , but became a ...
... less to blame in her choice than her father , who ought to have advised her against the marriage . Where and how they met is not known . Mary was not attractive in person : she was in her youth little , brown , and thin , but became a ...
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Page 16 - 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. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Page 10 - 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.
Page 239 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Page 239 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Page 182 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Page 38 - Here lies our sovereign lord the king. Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 46 - Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay, at Council, in a ring 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.
Page 37 - I shall consider you as the assassin : I shall treat you as such ; and wherever I meet you, I shall pistol you, though you stood behind the king's chair ; and I tell it you in his majesty's presence, that you may be sure I shall not fail of performance.
Page 241 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Page 81 - Marks the young dawn of every virtuous aim, And fans the smoking flax into a flame. His ears are open to the softest cry, His grace descends to meet the lifted eye; He reads the language of a silent tear, And sighs are incense from a heart sincere.