 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...of St. Cecilia. Thus, in the SPECTATOR, No. 59, May 8, 1711, we find the following Advertisement : " At the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mess. Cuthbert, Lovelace, and White, at Stationers' Hall near Ludgate, to-morrow, being the gth of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...of St. Cecilia. Thus, in the SPECTATOR, No. 59, May 8, 1711, we find the following Advertisement : " At the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mess. Cuthbert, Lovelace, and White, at Stationers' Hall near Ludgate, to-morrow, being the 9th of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...of St. Cecilia. Thus, in the SPECTATOR, No. 59, May 8, 1711, we find the following Advertisement : " At the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mess. Cuthbert, Lovdace, and White, at Stationers' Hall near Ludgate, to-morrow, being the gth of May,... | |
 | John Wilkes - Great Britain - 1805 - 368 pages
...of Middlesex." Thus ended, to use the words of Mr. Burke, " the fifth act of this tragi comedy : — a tragi-comedy acted by his majesty's servants, at...constitution*." * Several very able and learned tracts were written on this subject ; the principal of which were — Mr. Grenville's Speech on the 3d of February,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...not, prompted by necessity and impudence, contrived to make himself the principal performer in ' the tragi-comedy acted by his majesty's servants, at the...Wilkes, and at the expence of the constitution.'* It was only whilst he was the object of ministerial persecution, that he excited interest ainongst... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 726 pages
...carried it 219 to 137, and (to use the words of Mr. Burke) the fifth act of this tragi-comedy is over : a tragi-comedy acted by his " Majesty's servants,"...Mr. Wilkes, and at the expence of the constitution. The SPEECH of the right hon. GEORGE GRENVILLE, on the 3rd of February, 1769, against the motion for... | |
 | England - 1839 - 870 pages
...shoulders of the populace to an equality with his king. Burke expressively termed the whole process — " A tragicomedy, acted by his Majesty's servants, at...quality, for the benefit of Mr Wilkes, and at the expense of the constitution.'' But the subject abounds on us, and we must, for the present, break off... | |
 | 1822 - 488 pages
...heroic verse, intituled, ' The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man,' printed in 4to. in 1677. P. 135. At the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mrs. Cross, at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-market, on Saturday next, April 22, will be presented... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 514 pages
...in the Commons; and called the proposed vote of expulsion the fifth act of a tragicomedy, performed by his Majesty's servants, at the desire of several...quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes, and at the expense of the constitution. Mr. Grenville confined himself to two decisive points, the injustice and... | |
 | J. R. Miller - Great Britain - 1825 - 490 pages
...the commons ; and called the proposed vote of expulsion the fifth act of a tragi-corordy ; performed by his majesty's servants, at the desire. of several persons of quality, for tho benclit of Willies, and at the expense of the constitution. Grenville confined himsolf to two decisive... | |
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Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution... 
