Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Volume 1Richard Bentley, 1836 - Great Britain |
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Page 312 - Et Tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri : Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exul uterque, Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba, Si curat cor spectantis tetigisse querela.
Page 182 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway; Short sway! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the...
Page 274 - Pert without fire, without experience sage, Young with more art than Shelburne gleaned from age, Too proud from pilfered greatness to descend, Too humble not to call Dundas his friend, In solemn dignity and sullen state, This new Octavius rises to debate!
Page 114 - Crown, and always including the Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of the Secretaries of State.
Page 357 - ... and regulated on permanent and equitable principles, for the mutual benefit of both countries.
Page 264 - ... of a wholesale upholsterer for this house, to furnish it, not with the faded tapestry figures of antiquated merit, such as decorate, and may reproach, some other houses, but with real, solid, living patterns of true modern virtue. Paul Benfield made (reckoning himself) no fewer than eight members in the last parliament. What copious streams of pure blood must he not have transfused into the veins of the present ! But what is even more striking than the real services of this new-imported patriot,...
Page 38 - All these characteristics played about his lips when speaking, and operated with inconceivable attraction; for they anticipated, as it were, to the eye, the effect produced by his oratory on the ear, thus opening for him a sure way to the heart of the understanding.
Page 216 - A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance and horse to horse? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And through the kindred squadrons mow their way. Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed, Revere his consort's faith, his father's fame, And spare the meek usurper's holy head!
Page 47 - Street, where various individuals of that society, impelled either by political or by personal antipathies, were resolute in their determination to exclude him. Among these, two held him in peculiar dislike ; I mean George Selwyn and the late Earl of Besborough. Conscious that every exertion would be made to ensure Sheridan's success, they agreed not to absent themselves during the time allotted by the regulations of the club for ballots ; and as one black ball sufficed to extinguish the hopes of...
Page 371 - ... very design would have been ruin to the character of the Queen. Wraxall himself adds, — ' Notwithstanding the palpable ignorance and innocence of the Queen relative to every part of the affair, yet such was the malignity of the Parisians, and through so prejudiced a medium were all her actions viewed, that a numerous class of society either believed, or affected to believe, her implicated in the guilt of the whole transaction.