Historical Sketches of the Reign of Queen AnneMacmillan, 1894 - 381 oldal |
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33. oldal
... successful . They feared Popery more than they loved their father , but so far as he had been responsible for their training , the fault was his own . There seems not the slightest reason to suppose that Anne was insincere in her ...
... successful . They feared Popery more than they loved their father , but so far as he had been responsible for their training , the fault was his own . There seems not the slightest reason to suppose that Anne was insincere in her ...
54. oldal
... success . In short , his public aspect up to this time would seem on the face of it to have been irreprochable . This being the case , his sudden dismissal from court filled his friends with astonishment and dismay . Nobody understood ...
... success . In short , his public aspect up to this time would seem on the face of it to have been irreprochable . This being the case , his sudden dismissal from court filled his friends with astonishment and dismay . Nobody understood ...
97. oldal
... success . It was no shame to either the general or the general's wife to believe , as William did , that this was the greatest work of the time , and could alone secure the safety of England as well as of her allies : and the gallant ...
... success . It was no shame to either the general or the general's wife to believe , as William did , that this was the greatest work of the time , and could alone secure the safety of England as well as of her allies : and the gallant ...
120. oldal
... harmless , and thus bringing the war to an entirely successful conclusion . A certain enlightenment was in all her passionate interferences with the course of public affairs . The men whom I 20 The Reign of Queen Anne.
... harmless , and thus bringing the war to an entirely successful conclusion . A certain enlightenment was in all her passionate interferences with the course of public affairs . The men whom I 20 The Reign of Queen Anne.
137. oldal
... successful man , and had every reason to hope that his son , following in his steps , with the favour of the king and the heir to the throne , might become a very important person , and carry the family fortunes . high . There was even ...
... successful man , and had every reason to hope that his son , following in his steps , with the favour of the king and the heir to the throne , might become a very important person , and carry the family fortunes . high . There was even ...
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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.