Some Verdicts of History ReviewedJohn Murray, 1887 - 416 Seiten |
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... literary fascination ; if the states- man and man of science survives , the moralist and con- troversialist musters no more readers than Samuel Johnson . Upon the rest , if they be not exposed in the pillory of historical obloquy , as ...
... literary fascination ; if the states- man and man of science survives , the moralist and con- troversialist musters no more readers than Samuel Johnson . Upon the rest , if they be not exposed in the pillory of historical obloquy , as ...
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... literary accident has superfluously added to the prejudice of the one age against attempting to discern the resources for entertainment in its predecessor . Mr. Lecky censures the reigns of the first two Georges for the withdrawal of ...
... literary accident has superfluously added to the prejudice of the one age against attempting to discern the resources for entertainment in its predecessor . Mr. Lecky censures the reigns of the first two Georges for the withdrawal of ...
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... literary sympathy to the sharp whirr of the arrow ; his own age followed it to its mark , and shuddered or mocked at the spasm on the countenance of its victim . Every line of Pope is a witness how , in the eighteenth century ...
... literary sympathy to the sharp whirr of the arrow ; his own age followed it to its mark , and shuddered or mocked at the spasm on the countenance of its victim . Every line of Pope is a witness how , in the eighteenth century ...
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... literary society in which that poet was supreme . It is an obituary of departed reputations . The wits of Button's and Will's , the courtiers of Whitehall , and scribblers from Grub Street , satirists , playwrights , pseudo - travellers ...
... literary society in which that poet was supreme . It is an obituary of departed reputations . The wits of Button's and Will's , the courtiers of Whitehall , and scribblers from Grub Street , satirists , playwrights , pseudo - travellers ...
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... literary lustre . There Waller shows his seventh edition , put forth in an age when the court and the bar were an author's public , and Denham his fourth ; and there , where Milton has apparently not yet passed beyond his first ...
... literary lustre . There Waller shows his seventh edition , put forth in an age when the court and the bar were an author's public , and Denham his fourth ; and there , where Milton has apparently not yet passed beyond his first ...
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Abraham Cowley admiration American appeared Bolingbroke Botley British Cabinet career character Charles chief Cobbett colonies common Constitution corruption Court courtiers Cowley Cowley's eighteenth century enemies England English fame favour France Franklin French friends genius George Government Governor Hanoverian Harley honour hope Horace Walpole House House of Lords indignation interest intrigues Jacobite jealousy John John's King Kit-Cat Club leader Leicester House letters liberty literary literature Lord Marlborough Matthew Prior ment Minister moral nation negotiations neighbours never once Opposition Parliament Parliamentary party patriotism peace peace of Utrecht period Pitt poem poet political politicians popular Prince principles Prior Pulteney Pulteney's Queen rank Register reign Revolution Robert Walpole royal Salem seems society Sovereign spirit statesman Swift thought tion Tories treaty of Hanover Virginia Walpole Walpole's Whig Whiggism whole William William Cobbett writes Wyndham
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Seite 259 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, though they did not much like treating out of the provinces ; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defence and other important general purposes.
Seite 240 - A patriot, sir ! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Seite 282 - I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.
Seite 281 - You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority which has doomed my Country to Destruction. — You have begun to burn our Towns, and murder our People. — Look upon your Hands! They are stained with the Blood of your Relations! — You and I were long Friends: — You are now my Enemy, — and I am Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Seite 297 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others...
Seite 298 - I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions. I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them ; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected.
Seite 30 - His house was perfectly of the old fashion, in the midst of a large park well stocked with deer, and near the house rabbits to serve his kitchen, many...
Seite 273 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes ; some to be set in the lids of snuffboxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Seite 284 - Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations ; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.
Seite 289 - I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.