The Old Court Suburb: Or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotical, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1855 - 288 страници |
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... seems , to one " Edward : ” a name which signifies Happy Keeper . So Happy Keeper , ( unless detained to keep the pigs , ) makes the best of his way off , blessing this delightful bishop and judge , whose office it is to oust ...
... seems , to one " Edward : ” a name which signifies Happy Keeper . So Happy Keeper , ( unless detained to keep the pigs , ) makes the best of his way off , blessing this delightful bishop and judge , whose office it is to oust ...
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... the purpose of facilitating the Queen's intercourse with ministers , seems in our days ( observes the editor of his lordship's ' Memoirs , ' ) very singular ; but the fol- lowing extract from a letter to his mother , dated.
... the purpose of facilitating the Queen's intercourse with ministers , seems in our days ( observes the editor of his lordship's ' Memoirs , ' ) very singular ; but the fol- lowing extract from a letter to his mother , dated.
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... seem to be nothing but one drawing - room , possess , however , parlours and second stories at the back , and have good gardens ; so that what with their flowers behind them , the park in front , and their own neatness and elegance ...
... seem to be nothing but one drawing - room , possess , however , parlours and second stories at the back , and have good gardens ; so that what with their flowers behind them , the park in front , and their own neatness and elegance ...
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... seems , no possibilities of self- restraint to the sober fancies of our beloved countrymen . Yet , in his last days , when the hand of death was upon him , the Count said to their friend and biographer , the tears , all the while ...
... seems , no possibilities of self- restraint to the sober fancies of our beloved countrymen . Yet , in his last days , when the hand of death was upon him , the Count said to their friend and biographer , the tears , all the while ...
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... seems to have invented the word ; and the thing is worthy of his tawdriness and his incoherence . We confess , however , to a sneaking kindness for the shepherds and shepherdesses of the times of the Pompadours and the Madame du Barrys ...
... seems to have invented the word ; and the thing is worthy of his tawdriness and his incoherence . We confess , however , to a sneaking kindness for the shepherds and shepherdesses of the times of the Pompadours and the Madame du Barrys ...
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Страница 227 - His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed His virtues were so rare ; His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly; Ah, many's the time and oft!
Страница 194 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Страница 41 - I will not attempt with profane hands to tear the sacred veil of the sanctuary; I am disposed, with the inhabitants of Attica, to erect an altar to the unknown god of our political idolatry, and will be content to worship him in clouds and darkness.
Страница 48 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Страница 274 - Not who first see the rising sun commands, But who could first discern the rising lands. Who best could know to pump an earth so leak, Him they their lord, and country's father, speak. To make a bank was a great plot of state ; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
Страница 26 - Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Страница 226 - TOM BOWLING HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broached him to. His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft.