Historical Characters: Mackintosh, Talleyrand, Canning, Cobbett, PeelR. Bentley & son, 1876 - 591 pagina's |
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Historical Characters: Mackintosh, Talleyrand, Canning, Cobbett, Peel Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2023 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 351 - Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir, Only last night a-drinking at the " Chequers," This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle.
Pagina 412 - ... necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion - how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage - how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such...
Pagina 273 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pagina 412 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Pagina 351 - (Have you not read the Eights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Pagina 372 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Pagina 291 - I had always been fond of beautiful gardens ; and a gardener, who had just come from the king's gardens at Kew, gave such a description of them as made me instantly resolve to work in these gardens. The next morning, without saying a word to any one, off I set, with no clothes, except those upon my back, and with thirteen halfpence in my pocket. I found that I must go to Richmond, and I, accordingly, went on from place to place inquiring my way thither.
Pagina 419 - Parliament. It was only on last Friday night that this precise information arrived — on Saturday his Majesty's confidential servants came to a decision. On Sunday that decision received the sanction of his Majesty ; on Monday it was communicated to both Houses of Parliament ; and this day, sir, at this hour in which I have the honour of addressing you, the troops are on their march for embarkation.
Pagina 291 - I had lost somehow or other, left three pence in my pocket. With this for my whole fortune, I was trudging through Richmond, in my blue smockfrock and my red garters tied under my knees, when, staring about me, my eye fell upon a little book in a bookseller's window, on the outside of which was written : "TALE OF A TUB ; price 3d.
Pagina 292 - Tub,' which I carried about with me wherever I went ; and when I, at about twenty years old, lost it in a box that fell overboard in the Bay of Fundy, in North America, the loss gave me greater pain than I have ever felt at losing thousands of pounds.