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Pagina xii
... French or English , is no mediæval personage : the aristocracy of the present day rank among his immediate descendants : he is a creature of a modern and an artificial age ; and with his career are mingled many features of civilized ...
... French or English , is no mediæval personage : the aristocracy of the present day rank among his immediate descendants : he is a creature of a modern and an artificial age ; and with his career are mingled many features of civilized ...
Pagina 15
... French gew - gaws , a trader to all appearance , but really carrying on political intrigues ; every one went to chat with the White Milliner , ' as she was called , during the reign of William and Mary . The Duke next erected a stage at ...
... French gew - gaws , a trader to all appearance , but really carrying on political intrigues ; every one went to chat with the White Milliner , ' as she was called , during the reign of William and Mary . The Duke next erected a stage at ...
Pagina 21
... French ambassador had written word to his friends at home , ' is the most richly fitted up of any that I saw . ' The galleries and state rooms were graced by the display of the Roman marbles , both busts and statues , which the first ...
... French ambassador had written word to his friends at home , ' is the most richly fitted up of any that I saw . ' The galleries and state rooms were graced by the display of the Roman marbles , both busts and statues , which the first ...
Pagina 36
... French noblemen were entertained . The man , ' says Evelyn , had not only a daring , but a villanous , unmerciful look , a false countenance ; but very well - spoken , and dangerously insinuating . ' " Early in 1662 , the Duke of ...
... French noblemen were entertained . The man , ' says Evelyn , had not only a daring , but a villanous , unmerciful look , a false countenance ; but very well - spoken , and dangerously insinuating . ' " Early in 1662 , the Duke of ...
Pagina 38
... French rival , the Duchess of Portsmouth . Let us suppose that she has been at Ham House , and is gone off to Pall Mall again , where she can see her painted face in every turn . The king has departed , and Killigrew , who , at all ...
... French rival , the Duchess of Portsmouth . Let us suppose that she has been at Ham House , and is gone off to Pall Mall again , where she can see her painted face in every turn . The king has departed , and Killigrew , who , at all ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 16 - Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...
Pagina 10 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 239 - A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Pagina 239 - Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
Pagina 182 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Pagina 38 - Here lies our sovereign lord the king. Whose word no man relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Pagina 46 - Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay, at Council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen, and their merry king, No wit to flatter, left of all his store ! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Pagina 37 - I shall consider you as the assassin : I shall treat you as such ; and wherever I meet you, I shall pistol you, though you stood behind the king's chair ; and I tell it you in his majesty's presence, that you may be sure I shall not fail of performance.
Pagina 241 - I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.
Pagina 81 - Marks the young dawn of every virtuous aim, And fans the smoking flax into a flame. His ears are open to the softest cry, His grace descends to meet the lifted eye; He reads the language of a silent tear, And sighs are incense from a heart sincere.