Once Upon a Time, Volume 2John Murray, 1854 - Great Britain |
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Page 59
... changed our clothes at North- umberland House , the Duke of York , Lady North- umberland , Lady Mary Coke , Lord Hertford , and I , all in one hackney - coach , and drove to the spot it rained torrents ; yet the lane was full of mob ...
... changed our clothes at North- umberland House , the Duke of York , Lady North- umberland , Lady Mary Coke , Lord Hertford , and I , all in one hackney - coach , and drove to the spot it rained torrents ; yet the lane was full of mob ...
Page 72
... changed it for words , and sold it for a pension . Don't think me scornful . Recollect that I have seen Pope , and lived with Gray . " + Walpole was too acute not to admire Fielding ; yet he evidently delights to lower the man , in the ...
... changed it for words , and sold it for a pension . Don't think me scornful . Recollect that I have seen Pope , and lived with Gray . " + Walpole was too acute not to admire Fielding ; yet he evidently delights to lower the man , in the ...
Page 113
... changed in appear- ance since the morning ; the oak table was moved into the centre , and covered with a coarse cloth as white as the May - blossom ; the turf fire gave out a fierce heat , almost unbearable by the urchin who sat on a ...
... changed in appear- ance since the morning ; the oak table was moved into the centre , and covered with a coarse cloth as white as the May - blossom ; the turf fire gave out a fierce heat , almost unbearable by the urchin who sat on a ...
Page 117
... changed . " The scenes which live in my recollection can never come back ; nor is it fitting that they should . With the primitive sim- plicity there was also a good deal of primitive waste and carelessness . Except in the dairy , dirt ...
... changed . " The scenes which live in my recollection can never come back ; nor is it fitting that they should . With the primitive sim- plicity there was also a good deal of primitive waste and carelessness . Except in the dairy , dirt ...
Page 124
... changed . The king and his family migrated from their little lodge into the old and spacious castle . This was about 1804. The lath and plaster of Sir William Chambers was aban- doned to the equerries and chance visitors of the court ...
... changed . The king and his family migrated from their little lodge into the old and spacious castle . This was about 1804. The lath and plaster of Sir William Chambers was aban- doned to the equerries and chance visitors of the court ...
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amongst ancient ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS Bekfudi black ditch bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap coach Court Crabbe eggs England English Essay Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel German happy heard HERMANN MELVILLE Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John Bunyan JOHN WILSON CROKER Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen Robert Jephson ROBERT SOUTHEY Royal 4to Royal 8vo says scene Second Edition shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vols Voltaire walk Walpole to Mann Walpole's Windsor Woodcuts writing young
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Page 20 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
Page 161 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 143 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
Page 141 - Rapine and Wrong and Fear usurp'd her place, And a bold, artful, surly, savage race; Who, only skill'd to take the finny tribe, The yearly dinner, or septennial bribe...
Page 142 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
Page 91 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Page 85 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Page 60 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
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Page 145 - The holy stranger to these dismal walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, "passing rich with forty pounds a year?