 | George Augustus Selwyn, John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1882 - 432 pages
...natural and acquired vivacity ! * The seat of Lord Holland near Margate, — " Where Holland formed the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend Fanny* has bit her nails to the very bone, at March's having been expected here for this week past.... | |
 | 1847 - 778 pages
...e»cb renal friend. Here II — — d form'il the pious resolution To smuggle * few years, and etrire to mend A broken character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd hischoice, Earl Goodwin trembled for liis neighbouring aand ; Here Ren-gulls ecream and cormorants... | |
 | Kent (England) - 1883 - 628 pages
...villa," which suggested to Gay the epitaph, beginning — " Old, and abandoned by each venal friend, Hoar Holland took the pious resolution To smuggle a few...strive to mend A broken character and constitution." The position is certainly not adapted for an Italian villa ; bold rugged cliffs and a seething sea... | |
 | H. Fiennes Speed - Canoes and canoeing - 1883 - 332 pages
...we read the well-known lines : — " Old, and abandoned by each venal friend, " Hoar Holland formed the pious resolution, " To smuggle, a few years, and...strive to mend " A broken character and constitution." Our cave was situated half-way up the cliff, and somewhere under Kingsgate Castle, (which was, by the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...abandon'd by each venal friend, Here Holland form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, andT strive to mend A broken character and constitution, On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice ; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand ; Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 450 pages
...abandon'd by each venal friend, Here Holland form'd1 the pious resolution K y f^t ii-r To smuggle a few1 years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice ; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand ; Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 452 pages
...each venal friend, Here Holland form'd1 the pious resolution 1 Form'd] Took.— MS. To smuggle a few1 years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice ; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand ; Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Book jackets - 1885 - 164 pages
...DECEASED NOBLEMAN, AT KINGSGATE, KENT. OLD, and abandon 'd by each venal friend, Here Holland form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive...character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice ; 5 Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighbouring sand ; Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1886 - 176 pages
...of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent. OLD, and abandon'd by each venal friend, Here H d form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive...character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice ; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighboring sand ; Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - Great Britain - 1890 - 248 pages
...lines on Lord Holland at Kingsgate :— " Old and abandoned by each venal friend, Here Holland formed the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to .mend A broken character and constitution. 'Ah,' said the sighing peer, ' hud Bute been true, Nor Mungo's, Rigby's, Bradshaw's friendship vaiu,... | |
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IMPROMPTU, Suggested by a View, in 1766, of the Scat and Ruins of a Deceased Nobleman, at Kingsgate, Kent. Old, and abandon'd by each venal friend, Here H dt form'd the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and... 
