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Pagina 36
... Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies ...
... Commons present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent ; the subsidies ...
Pagina 136
... Commons was that , meeting after a long intermission of parliaments , and after a long series of cruelties and illegal imposts , they seemed inclined to examine grievances before they would vote supplies . For this insolence they were ...
... Commons was that , meeting after a long intermission of parliaments , and after a long series of cruelties and illegal imposts , they seemed inclined to examine grievances before they would vote supplies . For this insolence they were ...
Pagina 140
... Commons might justly use . Did then the articles against Strafford strictly amount to high treason ? Many people who know neither what the articles were , nor what high treason is , will answer in the negative , simply because the ...
... Commons might justly use . Did then the articles against Strafford strictly amount to high treason ? Many people who know neither what the articles were , nor what high treason is , will answer in the negative , simply because the ...
Pagina 145
... Commons has been fully and most appropriately re- paid . The House of Wentworth has since that time been as much distinguished by public spirit as by power and splendour , and may at the present moment boast of members with whom Say and ...
... Commons has been fully and most appropriately re- paid . The House of Wentworth has since that time been as much distinguished by public spirit as by power and splendour , and may at the present moment boast of members with whom Say and ...
Pagina 148
... Commons would have given him a fair chance of retrieving the public confidence . Such was the opinion of Clarendon . He distinctly states that the fury of opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that the ...
... Commons would have given him a fair chance of retrieving the public confidence . Such was the opinion of Clarendon . He distinctly states that the fury of opposition had abated , that a reaction had begun to take place , that the ...
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Pagina 12 - in his attempt to translate into his own diction some parts of the Paradise Lost, is a remarkable instance of this. In support of these observations we may remark, that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known, or more frequently repeated, than those which arc little more than
Pagina 7 - have created an lago ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements, would he have been able to combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man, a real, living, individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind, if any
Pagina 385 - demeanour in society should be harsh and despotic. For severe distress he had sympathy, and not only sympathy, but munificent relief. But for the suffering which a harsh word inflicts upon a delicate mind he had no pity; for it was a kind of suffering which he could scarcely conceive. He would
Pagina 383 - as the reward of mere literary merit. One or two of the many poets who attached themselves to the opposition, Thomson in particular and Mallet, obtained, after much severe suffering, the means of subsistence from their political friends. Richardson, like a man of sense, kept his shop ; and his shop kept him, which his novels,
Pagina 22 - fault inseparable from the plan of his poem, which, as we have already observed, rendered the utmost accuracy of description necessary. Still it is a fault. His supernatural agents excite an interest; but it is not the interest which is proper to supernatural agents. We feel that we could talk to
Pagina 53 - still remains to be mentioned. If he exerted himself to overthrow a forsworn king and a persecuting hierarchy, he exerted himself in conjunction with others. But the glory of the battle which he fought for that species of freedom which is the most valuable, and which was then
Pagina 376 - puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, all arc as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood.
Pagina 41 - reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon. For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the commonwealth; but with powers scarcely so great as those of a Dutch stadtholdcr, or an American president. He gave the Parliament a voice in the
Pagina 11 - is the extreme remoteness of the associations by means of which it acts on the reader. Its effect is produced, not so much by what it expresses, as by what it suggests; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys, as by other ideas which are
Pagina 64 - of the Vatican. Alexander, when he commanded our Henry the Second to submit to the lash before the tomb of a rebellious subject, was himself an exile. The Romans, apprehending that he entertained designs against their liberties, had driven him from their city; and, though he solemnly promised to confine himself for the future