Memoirs and Correspondence from 1734 to 1773, Volume 1J. Ridgway, 1845 - 816 pages |
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... measure to avert , if he did not actually abet his ruin . Lyttelton was among the few followers of the * This pastime was no uncommon episcopal recreation , till the Archbishop Abbot , in the next reign , accidentally shot and killed a ...
... measure to avert , if he did not actually abet his ruin . Lyttelton was among the few followers of the * This pastime was no uncommon episcopal recreation , till the Archbishop Abbot , in the next reign , accidentally shot and killed a ...
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... measure " to the vivacity of his imagination pursuing some agreeable thought too intensely , and diverting the spirits from their proper functions , even at meals - for we have often been obliged at that time to recal him from reveries ...
... measure " to the vivacity of his imagination pursuing some agreeable thought too intensely , and diverting the spirits from their proper functions , even at meals - for we have often been obliged at that time to recal him from reveries ...
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... measure of Sir Robert Walpole . Lyttelton had no seat in the House of Commons till 1734 . His acquaintance with Pope began before his expedi- tion to the Continent , and from the period of his return to England , to the death of that ...
... measure of Sir Robert Walpole . Lyttelton had no seat in the House of Commons till 1734 . His acquaintance with Pope began before his expedi- tion to the Continent , and from the period of his return to England , to the death of that ...
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... measure , with a conviction of their perfect sincerity of purpose . Wal- pole abandoned his measure , but Queen Caroline fully shared his disappointment ; and he lost no time in visiting the mutineers in his own camp with pun- ishment ...
... measure , with a conviction of their perfect sincerity of purpose . Wal- pole abandoned his measure , but Queen Caroline fully shared his disappointment ; and he lost no time in visiting the mutineers in his own camp with pun- ishment ...
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... measure , separated them from the Jacobites , their intimate alliance with whom had been one of the indirect supports of Walpole's government . In 1734 , the Prince forced his way into the ante- chamber of the King , and made three ...
... measure , separated them from the Jacobites , their intimate alliance with whom had been one of the indirect supports of Walpole's government . In 1734 , the Prince forced his way into the ante- chamber of the King , and made three ...
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Page 278 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Page 297 - ... applied himself seriously to the great question. His studies, being honest, ended in conviction. He found that religion was true ; and what he had learned he endeavoured to teach, 1747, by Observations on the Conversion of St. Paul ; a treatise to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer.
Page 318 - Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Page 357 - ... in this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard > to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age...
Page 132 - I am not contending for a vain punctilio. A clear, unblemished character, comprehends not only the integrity that will not offer, but the spirit that will not submit to, an injury; and whether it belongs to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Page 340 - I hope my reader will be convinced, at his very entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole course of it nothing prejudicial to the cause of religion and virtue ; nothing inconsistent with the strictest rules of decency, nor which can offend even the chastest eye in the perusal.
Page 278 - Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters...
Page 176 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have be,en esteemed useful engines of government.
Page 276 - Of household smoke, your eye excursive roams ; Wide-stretching from the hall in whose kind haunt The hospitable Genius lingers still, To where the broken landscape, by degrees Ascending, roughens into rigid hills...
Page 341 - For these purposes I have employed all the wit and humour of which I am master in the following history ; wherein I have endeavoured to laugh mankind out of their favourite follies and vices.