Historical Sketches of the Reign of Queen AnneMacmillan, 1894 - 381 oldal |
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... woman , full of infirmities , with little about her of the picturesque yet artificial brightness of her time or of her race , and no gleam of reflection in her to answer to the wit and genius which have made her age so illustrious . A ...
... woman , full of infirmities , with little about her of the picturesque yet artificial brightness of her time or of her race , and no gleam of reflection in her to answer to the wit and genius which have made her age so illustrious . A ...
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... woman -'a very weak woman'- ' always governed blindly by some female favourite ' ; nobody has a civil word to say for her . Yet there is It a mixture of the amusing and the tragic in The Queen and the Duchess 5.
... woman -'a very weak woman'- ' always governed blindly by some female favourite ' ; nobody has a civil word to say for her . Yet there is It a mixture of the amusing and the tragic in The Queen and the Duchess 5.
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... woman more beloved and hated than any woman in a drama , holding a hero in her bonds on one side , and on the other rousing to the height of adoration the mild and obtuse 6 The Reign of Queen Anne.
... woman more beloved and hated than any woman in a drama , holding a hero in her bonds on one side , and on the other rousing to the height of adoration the mild and obtuse 6 The Reign of Queen Anne.
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... woman , standing like a beautiful Ishmael with every man's hand against her yet fearing no man , and ready to meet every assailant , cannot fail to attract the eye amid the historical scenes which so seldom open up to exhibit anything ...
... woman , standing like a beautiful Ishmael with every man's hand against her yet fearing no man , and ready to meet every assailant , cannot fail to attract the eye amid the historical scenes which so seldom open up to exhibit anything ...
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... woman , the dauntless stand she makes , her determination not to be overcome , even the virulence of the opposition she raises , carry a grateful stir and commotion into the mind . And art could not desire a more curious contrast than ...
... woman , the dauntless stand she makes , her determination not to be overcome , even the virulence of the opposition she raises , carry a grateful stir and commotion into the mind . And art could not desire a more curious contrast than ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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.