The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines, Patriots, Statemen, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Accention of Henry VIII, to the Present Time, Band 6J. Mawman, 1816 |
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... manner so fascinating that while he was all but adored by his friends , even by his most virulent opponents he was not hated . * His generous rival , Pulteney , pronounced him of a temper so calm and equal , and so hard to be provoked ...
... manner so fascinating that while he was all but adored by his friends , even by his most virulent opponents he was not hated . * His generous rival , Pulteney , pronounced him of a temper so calm and equal , and so hard to be provoked ...
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... manner of reciting lofty or solemn composition . Dod- dington , himself a most accomplished reader , pro- voked by his strange utterance , once snatched a poem out of his hand , telling him that he did not under- stand his own ...
... manner of reciting lofty or solemn composition . Dod- dington , himself a most accomplished reader , pro- voked by his strange utterance , once snatched a poem out of his hand , telling him that he did not under- stand his own ...
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... manner and address irresistibly engaging , a quick apprehension , great strength of memory , pe- culiar subtilty in reasoning , and a masterly elocu- tion : but , for some years , all these extraordinary endowments were lavished in ...
... manner and address irresistibly engaging , a quick apprehension , great strength of memory , pe- culiar subtilty in reasoning , and a masterly elocu- tion : but , for some years , all these extraordinary endowments were lavished in ...
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... manner , as not to attract or conciliate those with whom he acted . Learned and pedantic ; embarrassed and inelegant , both in speaking and writing ; equally an enemy to pleasure and business ; extremely dilatory , and fond of ...
... manner , as not to attract or conciliate those with whom he acted . Learned and pedantic ; embarrassed and inelegant , both in speaking and writing ; equally an enemy to pleasure and business ; extremely dilatory , and fond of ...
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... manner as to make my promotion a punish- ment , not a reward , being there left to defend the treaties alone . " It would not have been hard ( continues he ) to have forced the Earl of Oxford to use me better . His good intentions began ...
... manner as to make my promotion a punish- ment , not a reward , being there left to defend the treaties alone . " It would not have been hard ( continues he ) to have forced the Earl of Oxford to use me better . His good intentions began ...
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Seite 192 - In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Seite 225 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Seite 226 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning', I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, ' My Lord, ' Your Lordship's most humble, ' Most obedient servant,
Seite 398 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Seite 225 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
Seite 372 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Seite 254 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Seite 266 - 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 tesselated pavement without cement, — here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white, patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to...
Seite 280 - I call upon the honor of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Seite 237 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.