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... Lord Lyttelton , author of numerous poems , as well as other works . He died in 1773. He was an amiable , honourable , and virtuous man . His son , Thomas , Lord Lyttelton , who is described as the very reverse of his father in moral ...
... Lord Lyttelton , author of numerous poems , as well as other works . He died in 1773. He was an amiable , honourable , and virtuous man . His son , Thomas , Lord Lyttelton , who is described as the very reverse of his father in moral ...
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... had always been fair and honest , Talleyrand burst into tears , saying , " Il est le seul homme qui ait jamais dit du bien de moi . " - The Duke of Wel- lington to S. R. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . M THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . The TALLEYRAND . 159.
... had always been fair and honest , Talleyrand burst into tears , saying , " Il est le seul homme qui ait jamais dit du bien de moi . " - The Duke of Wel- lington to S. R. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . M THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . The TALLEYRAND . 159.
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Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . M THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . The First Brief . Greenwich Hospital.
Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . M THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . The First Brief . Greenwich Hospital.
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... Agar in his pompous man- ner . I knew nothing of this conversation , but on my return home next day , my Servant , John Nicholls , who had served under me in the Royals , and who , when he set my books 164 THOMAS LORD ERSKINE .
... Agar in his pompous man- ner . I knew nothing of this conversation , but on my return home next day , my Servant , John Nicholls , who had served under me in the Royals , and who , when he set my books 164 THOMAS LORD ERSKINE .
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Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . The First Brief . Greenwich Hospital Cause.1 2 N a Sunday in June 1778 , I was engaged to dine with Agar in New Norfolk Street , who had become acquainted with me at Tunbridge- wells ...
Samuel Rogers William Sharpe. THOMAS LORD ERSKINE . The First Brief . Greenwich Hospital Cause.1 2 N a Sunday in June 1778 , I was engaged to dine with Agar in New Norfolk Street , who had become acquainted with me at Tunbridge- wells ...
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Page 11 - Dreading ev'n fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and Templars ev'ry sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise: Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plastered posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers' load, On wings of winds came flying...
Page 183 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 10 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page xiii - Oh thou ! with whom my heart was wont to share From Reason's dawn each pleasure and each care; With whom, alas! I fondly hoped to know The humble walks of happiness below; If thy blest nature now unites above An angel's pity with a brother's love, Still o'er my life preserve thy mild...
Page 48 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, The unconquerable Mind, and freedom's holy flame.
Page 15 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Page 10 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 38 - From his broad bosom life and verdure flings. And broods o'er Egypt with his wat'ry wings, If with advent'rous oar and ready sail, The dusky people drive before the gale; Or on frail floats to neighb'ring cities ride, That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide...
Page 88 - THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear...
Page 19 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.