So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone-rock in Eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless ships that came near it, steals gradually away the strength by which character is held together, till, at last,... The History of England - Page 239by Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836Full view - About this book
| England - 1826 - 952 pages
...attraction, like the loadstone rock in Eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless stiips that came near it, steals gradually away the strength...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces a wreck !" Of this precious simile, calculated to dazzle Cockneys, and delight Radicals, it is haidly necessary... | |
| Thomas Moore - Authors, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...beautiful songs — 1812> " Friends, fortune, fame itself I'd lose, To gain one smile from thee !" So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, — whose...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck ! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on this occasion, we find him, in one of... | |
| Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 570 pages
...his own beautiful songs — " Friends, fortune, fame itself I'd lose, To gain one smile from thee!" So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, whose...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck ! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on ibis occasion, we find him, in one of... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 474 pages
...one smile from thee. So fatal, too often, are royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone in eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces — a wreck ! As a proof of the fettering influence under which Sheridan acted on this occasion, we find him, in... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 462 pages
...beautiful songs :— So fatal, too often, .are royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone in eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless...till at last it loosens at all points, and falls to pieces—a wreck ! As a proof of the fettering influence under which Sheridan acted on this occasion,... | |
| Robert Huish - 1830 - 466 pages
...beautiful songs : — So fatal, too often, are royal friendships, whose attraction, like the loadstone in eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless...which character is held together, till at last it Joosens at all points, and falls to pieces — a wreck ! As a proof of the fettering influence under... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 pages
...his own beautiful songs — " Friends, fortune,_/a:me itself I'd lose, To gain one smile from thee !" So fatal, too often, are Royal friendships, whose...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on this occasion, we find him, in one of his... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 530 pages
...his movements, and whose spell over him was too strong even for his sense of character ; observing, in his own beautiful language ; — ' so fatal, too...which the regent's favor depended, was gone for ever; and their unlucky phrase of ' riding rough-shod through Carlton-house,' was not lost on a mind like... | |
| Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 532 pages
...too often, are royal friendships ; whose attraction, like the loadstonerock in Eastern fable, which drew the nails out of the luckless ships that came...vehement outcry was raised by all parties against the whig leaders; and if there was any remnant of attachment, on which the regent's favor depended, it... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1853 - 360 pages
...attraction, like the loadstone-rock in Eastern fable, that drew the nails out of the luckless ship that came near it, steals gradually away the strength...loosens at all points, and falls to pieces, a wreck! In proof of the fettering influence under which he acted on this occasion, we find him in one of his... | |
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