Historical Sketches of the Reign of Queen AnneMacmillan, 1894 - 381 oldal |
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... respect . As long as he or she lives he is the conscious centre of everything , whose notice elates and elevates the greatest ; but as soon as his day is over , he becomes a mere image of state , 4 The Reign of Queen Anne.
... respect . As long as he or she lives he is the conscious centre of everything , whose notice elates and elevates the greatest ; but as soon as his day is over , he becomes a mere image of state , 4 The Reign of Queen Anne.
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... respect to her , and an angry ill - tongue becomes the endowment of every historian who names her name , rather adds to the interest than takes from it . Women in history , strangely enough , seem always to impart to the chronicle a ...
... respect to her , and an angry ill - tongue becomes the endowment of every historian who names her name , rather adds to the interest than takes from it . Women in history , strangely enough , seem always to impart to the chronicle a ...
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... of daughters of her own , one of whom , Eliza- beth Villiers , went with Mary to Holland , and was in some respects her evil genius . We have unfortunately no court chronicle to throw any light upon the lively 10 The Reign of Queen Anne.
... of daughters of her own , one of whom , Eliza- beth Villiers , went with Mary to Holland , and was in some respects her evil genius . We have unfortunately no court chronicle to throw any light upon the lively 10 The Reign of Queen Anne.
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... respect at least to the towns of the Continent . Any other information which we have about the princess is of the vaguest description . Miss Strickland embroiders this spare narrative with a vague love - story for which there seems only ...
... respect at least to the towns of the Continent . Any other information which we have about the princess is of the vaguest description . Miss Strickland embroiders this spare narrative with a vague love - story for which there seems only ...
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... respect- ful either of her royal mistress or of her great general , whom she has the credit of having ruled as she ruled Anne ; but though this innocent aspect of wonder sits oddly upon her , it is one of the cleverest and keenest ...
... respect- ful either of her royal mistress or of her great general , whom she has the credit of having ruled as she ruled Anne ; but though this innocent aspect of wonder sits oddly upon her , it is one of the cleverest and keenest ...
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Addison admiral affairs amusing Anne's appear believe Bishop Bishop Burnet Church Churchill court curious dear Defoe Defoe's delightful doubt duchess Duke Duke of York England English everything evident faith father favour favourite fortune Freeman genius hand Harley heart honour hope imagination Ireland Irish Isaac Bickerstaff James James's Jonathan Swift kind king Lady Marlborough least less letter little princess living Lord Lord Macaulay Lord Marlborough marriage Mary Mary of Modena ment mind mistress Moor Park natural never noble occasion once party passion peace Penn's Pepys perhaps pleasure poor prince princess Quaker Queen Anne reader reason reign royal Sarah Sarah Jennings says scarcely seems sentiment side Sir William Spectator Stella story Swift Tatler tell tender thing thought tion told took turned Whig William Penn woman wonder writing young youth
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348. oldal - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
285. oldal - It is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
380. oldal - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
347. oldal - Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war : In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.
373. oldal - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
279. oldal - A bishop here said, that book was full of improbable lies, and, for his part, he hardly believed a word of it; and so much for Gulliver.
231. oldal - ... he was stopped of his degree for dulness and insufficiency ; and at last hardly admitted in a manner little to his credit, which is called in that college speciali gratid, on the 15th February 1685, with four more on the same footing : and this discreditable mark, as I am told, stands upon record in their college registry.
366. oldal - But pray, (says he,) you that are a critic, is this play according to your dramatic rules, as you call them? Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why, there is not a single sentence in this play that I do not know the meaning of.
200. oldal - Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it, for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live therefore the lives yourselves you would have the people live; and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God sees you; therefore do your duty; and be sure you see with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears. Entertain no lurchers; cherish no informers for gain or revenge; use...
267. oldal - He was soliciting the earl of Arran to speak to his brother the duke of Ormond, to get a chaplain's place established in the garrison of Hull for Mr. Fiddes, a clergyman in that neighbourhood, who had lately been in gaol, and published sermons to pay fees.