Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With Selections from His Correspondence, Diaries, and Unpublished Literary Remains ...J. Murray, 1850 - Great Britain |
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... suppose I am tired with seventeen years ' politics . The speech was read before dinner , and very in- teresting . It will speak for itself . Ld . Castlereagh did not tell us the exact measures , but said they would come forward in the ...
... suppose I am tired with seventeen years ' politics . The speech was read before dinner , and very in- teresting . It will speak for itself . Ld . Castlereagh did not tell us the exact measures , but said they would come forward in the ...
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... suppose my pleasure . July 6th , 1820. - Rode with the Duke in the Park . He entered upon the conduct of the Guards , and said the hurrahs from the party on Saturday proceeded from a few recruits just off drill , who had never seen the ...
... suppose my pleasure . July 6th , 1820. - Rode with the Duke in the Park . He entered upon the conduct of the Guards , and said the hurrahs from the party on Saturday proceeded from a few recruits just off drill , who had never seen the ...
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... suppose I can be the man . Since the days of Mr. Pitt there has been no individual who could com- mand such confidence as to rally people round him with implicit devotion , so as to sacrifice their own opinion to a leader's ; and when ...
... suppose I can be the man . Since the days of Mr. Pitt there has been no individual who could com- mand such confidence as to rally people round him with implicit devotion , so as to sacrifice their own opinion to a leader's ; and when ...
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... suppose , said Ld . Lonsdale , he felt it difficult , holding out as he does that he stands upon the law , to go against the sense of all the law in the House , and almost out of the House . Lds . Grey , Lansdowne , and Holland had ...
... suppose , said Ld . Lonsdale , he felt it difficult , holding out as he does that he stands upon the law , to go against the sense of all the law in the House , and almost out of the House . Lds . Grey , Lansdowne , and Holland had ...
Page 84
... suppose we had determined differently , and all voted and spoke for the clause , see what the Opposition would have done ; they would all , to a man , have voted against it . " This is true . We 84 [ CHAP . III . EXTRACTS FROM.
... suppose we had determined differently , and all voted and spoke for the clause , see what the Opposition would have done ; they would all , to a man , have voted against it . " This is true . We 84 [ CHAP . III . EXTRACTS FROM.
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Page 331 - Lofty, and sour, to them that lov"d him not; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer: And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely.
Page 425 - Vaga echoes through her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 429 - Seen him, uneumber'd with the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe. Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Page 287 - Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critic with a Poet's fire. An ardent Judge, who zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws ; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Page 223 - We must not make a Scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, ACT n, Sc.
Page 429 - Born to no pride, inheriting no strife, Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age.
Page 432 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 352 - I design to pass the greatest part of the time I stay in Ireland here in the cabin where I am now writing, neither will I leave the Kingdom till I am sent for ; and if they have no further service for me I will never see England again. At my first coming I thought I should have died with discontent, and was horribly melancholy while they were installing me ; but it begins to wear off, and change to dulness.
Page 445 - Then welcome business, welcome strife Welcome the cares, the thorns of life. The visage wan, the purblind sight, The toil by day, the lamp at night, The tedious forms, the solemn prate, The pert dispute, the dull debate, The drowsy bench, the babbling Hall, — • For thee, fair Justice, welcome all...
Page 380 - ... between Pope's fortune and manner of life, and mine, may be carried. I have been, then, infinitely more uniform and less dissipated than when you knew me and cared for me. That love which I used to scatter with some profusion among the female kind, has been these many years devoted to one object...