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... expression of passion and feeling , the new and just delineation of monastic fraud , tyranny , and cruelty ; it deserves the greatest praise . But it is surprising that a man of his taste and judgment should have added to the im ...
... expression of passion and feeling , the new and just delineation of monastic fraud , tyranny , and cruelty ; it deserves the greatest praise . But it is surprising that a man of his taste and judgment should have added to the im ...
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... expressed in elegant me- taphor . I was struck with an oriental one of this sort , which I met with in some book of travels : " With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry - tree be- comes satin . " XXVI . BERNIS AND FLEURY ...
... expressed in elegant me- taphor . I was struck with an oriental one of this sort , which I met with in some book of travels : " With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry - tree be- comes satin . " XXVI . BERNIS AND FLEURY ...
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... expressed her compas- sion : " Poor little dear creature ! I hope it will not make him sick ! " Another lady kept a malicious ape , which bit one of her women so cruelly in the arm , that her life was in danger . The lady chid her ape ...
... expressed her compas- sion : " Poor little dear creature ! I hope it will not make him sick ! " Another lady kept a malicious ape , which bit one of her women so cruelly in the arm , that her life was in danger . The lady chid her ape ...
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... epistle to Sir William Chambers was supposed to be written by Mason , very innocently expressed to Mr. Walpole his surprise that Mason , the general characteristic of whose poesy is feeble de- licacy WALPOLIANA . 23 .
... epistle to Sir William Chambers was supposed to be written by Mason , very innocently expressed to Mr. Walpole his surprise that Mason , the general characteristic of whose poesy is feeble de- licacy WALPOLIANA . 23 .
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... expressed by competent judges . There is , at any rate , reason to believe that Mr. Walpole had a share in that composition . XLIX . CHARLES I. THE best and most undoubted specimen of the mental powers of Charles I. is his conference ...
... expressed by competent judges . There is , at any rate , reason to believe that Mr. Walpole had a share in that composition . XLIX . CHARLES I. THE best and most undoubted specimen of the mental powers of Charles I. is his conference ...
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Page 164 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 23 - Darlington, whom I saw at my mother's in my infancy, and whom I remember by being terrified at her enormous figure, was as corpulent and ample as the duchess was long and emaciated. Two fierce black eyes, large, and rolling beneath two lofty arched eyebrows; two acres of cheeks, spread with crimson, an ocean of neck, that overflowed, and was not distinguished from the lower part of her body, and no part restrained by stays. No wonder that a child dreaded such an ogress, and that the mob of London...
Page 42 - Chesterfield, one twelfth-night, at court, had won so large a sum of money, that he thought it imprudent to carry it home in the dark, and deposited it with the mistress. Thence the queen inferred great intimacy ; and thenceforwards lord Chesterfield could obtain' no favour from court ; and, finding himself desperate, went into opposition.
Page 149 - I cannot be precise as to the time of my writing the King of Prussia's letter ; but I do assure you with the utmost truth that it was several days before you left Paris, and before Rousseau's arrival there, of which I can give you a strong proof ; for I not only suppressed the letter while you stayed there, out of delicacy to you, but it was the reason why, out of delicacy to myself, I did not go to see him, as you often proposed to me, thinking it wrong to go and make a cordial visit to a man, with...
Page 62 - Mistress's son, was profuse of attentions to the boy, and more prodigal still of his prodigious regard for his mamma. The shrewd boy received all his Lordship's vows with indulgence, and without betraying himself : at last he said, " I suppose your Lordship takes me for Master Louis ; but I am only Sir William Russcl, one of the pages.
Page 21 - George the first to take care of his wife, as he would not survive her a year. That oracle was probably dictated to the French Deborah by the duke and duchess of Zell, who might, be apprehensive lest the duchess of Kendal should be tempted to remove entirely the obstacle to her conscientious union with their son-in-law.
Page 11 - This is a strange country," he remarked afterward; "the first morning after my arrival at St. James's I looked out of the window, and saw a park with walks, and a canal, which they told me were mine. The next day Lord Chetwynd, the ranger of my park, sent me a fine brace of carp out of my canal; and I was told I must give five guineas to Lord Chetwynd's servant for bringing me my own carp, out of my own canal, in my own park.
Page 21 - First promised the Duchess of Kendal, that if she survived him, and it were possible for the departed to return to this world, he would make her a visit. The Duchess, on his death, so much expected the accomplishment of that engagement, that a large raven, or some black fowl, flying into one of the windows of her villa at Isleworth, she was persuaded it was the soul of her departed monarch so accoutred, and received and treated it with all the respect and tenderness of duty, till the royal bird or...
Page 65 - Immediately jumping into a boat, he, by strength of oars, gained tie middle of the river, brought his boat under the pile, and the whole family safely descended by means of a rope. "Courage!
Page 16 - Dorothea", only child of the duke of Zell ; a match of convenience to reunite the dominions of the family. Though she was very handsome, the prince, who was extremely amorous, had several mistresses ; which provocation, and his absence in the army of the confederates, probably disposed the princess to indulge some degree of coquetry. At that moment arrived at Hanover the famous and beautiful count Konismarkt) the charms of whose person ought not to have obliterated the memory of his vile assassination...