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... politics had gained the Laureateship of which Dryden was deprived at the revolution . Shadwell was fair game ; but Flecnoe seems to have been innocuously dull . At Rome , it is sup- * Marvell thus speaks of his father , in ' The ...
... politics had gained the Laureateship of which Dryden was deprived at the revolution . Shadwell was fair game ; but Flecnoe seems to have been innocuously dull . At Rome , it is sup- * Marvell thus speaks of his father , in ' The ...
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... political economy , is a great desideratum , the supply- ing of which might well engage the attention of the " Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . " The same letter , the first in the remaining series of Andrew's Public ...
... political economy , is a great desideratum , the supply- ing of which might well engage the attention of the " Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge . " The same letter , the first in the remaining series of Andrew's Public ...
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... politics as to forget business . He paid sedulous attention to the interests of his borough , and of each of his constituents , and watched narrowly the progress of private bills . We cannot participate the surprise of some of Marvell's ...
... politics as to forget business . He paid sedulous attention to the interests of his borough , and of each of his constituents , and watched narrowly the progress of private bills . We cannot participate the surprise of some of Marvell's ...
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... politics of Sweden , then ruled by the sagacious and unprincipled Charles the Eleventh - and the barbaric splendour of Russia , which had hardly begun to be considered as a member of the European system . But no notes or letters ...
... politics of Sweden , then ruled by the sagacious and unprincipled Charles the Eleventh - and the barbaric splendour of Russia , which had hardly begun to be considered as a member of the European system . But no notes or letters ...
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... politics , of the Parliament in which he sat . Jan. 22 , 1766-7 : - " Heard the report of the fire of London , full of manifest testimonies that it was by a wicked design , and ordered the report of the insolence of Papists to - morrow ...
... politics , of the Parliament in which he sat . Jan. 22 , 1766-7 : - " Heard the report of the fire of London , full of manifest testimonies that it was by a wicked design , and ordered the report of the insolence of Papists to - morrow ...
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Page 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Page 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Page 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Page 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Page 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Page 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Page 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.