Traditions and Recollections: Domestic, Clerical, and Literary; in which are Included Letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtenay, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter, Scott, and Other Distinguished Characters, Volume 1 |
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Page 320 - TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
Page 14 - Domini, and that is enough to silence all passion in me. The God of Peace in His good time send us peace ! and in the mean time fit us to receive it. We are both on the stage, and we must act the parts that are assigned us in this tragedy. Let us do it in a way of honour, and without personal animosities.
Page 220 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble...
Page 160 - But if there be any probable circumstances of assent, as if one goes to a treasonable meeting, knowing before-hand that a conspiracy is intended against the king ; or, being in such company once by accident, and having heard such treasonable conspiracy, meets the same company again, and hears more of it, but conceals it ; this is an implied assent in law, and makes the concealer guilty of actual high treason e.
Page 165 - Dim and in tears he stood, and stretched his pale hand over the hero. Faintly he raised his feeble voice, like the gale of the reedy Lego. ' My ghost, O'Connal, is on my native hills, but my corse is on the sands of Ullin.
Page 54 - COME, gentle sleep ! attend thy votary's prayer, And, though death's image, to my couch repair ; How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie, And, without dying, O how sweet to die ! DR.
Page 81 - A Letter to George Hardinge, Esq. on the subject of a Passage in Mr. Steevens's Preface to his impression of Shakespeare ;" and published anonymously in 1777, in vindication of Capell against Steevens.
Page 75 - The early promise of genius that broke through the uncouth manners of Opie is well told : "We were much entertained also by that unlicked cub of a carpenter Opie, who was now most ludicrously exhibited by his keeper, Wolcot — a wild animal of St. Agnes, caught among the tin-works. An incidental touch of his character, as staring in wonderment at an old family portrait...
Page 160 - Contempts and misprisions against the king's person and government may be by speaking or writing against them, cursing or wishing him ill, giving out scandalous stories concerning him, or doing any thing that may tend to lessen him in the esteem of his subjects, may weaken his government, or may raise jealousies between him and his...
Page 74 - Christ Church walk we first hailed his silver tuft) the literary Bishop. With respect to our own party, names shall not be mentioned. But it is remarkable that two (if not three), at present dignitaries of the Church, were seen as such through our prophetic telescope. new publication, " A poetical, supplicatory, modest, and affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses, the Reviewers *." * Another Epistle was likewise published by Wolcot (not long afterwards), " The Noble Cricketers," addressed...