Patronage, Volume 2Baldwin and Cradock, 1833 |
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admiration Alfred Percy answer appeared beauty Caroline's character charming Clay-hall Clermont-park colonel Hauton commissioner Falconer coner conversation count Altenberg countenance cried lady daugh daughter dress duke of Greenwich English Clay Erasmus eyes Falconer-court Falconer's fashionable father favour feel felt fortune French Clay gentleman give gout Gresham happy hear heard heart honour hope knew lady Angelica lady Arlingtons lady Frances Arlington lady Jane Granville lady Trant ladyship letter look lord Old lord Oldborough lord William lordship ma'am manner marriage marry mind miss Caroline Percy miss Falconers miss Georgiana Falconer miss Percy morning mother never object observed opinion Panton passion Percy family Percy-hall Percy's Petcalf pleasure racter recollect replied Rosamond seemed seen sir Robert Percy smiling speak spoke sure talents taste tell Temple thing thought told Tourville turned voice wish woman word young lady Zara
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Pagina 20 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply. 100 Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
Pagina 186 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Pagina 186 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Pagina 28 - Disappointed no danger of that he far surpasses my expectations. It has been said, that he never opened a book, that he never heard a common ballad, or saw a workman at his trade, without learning something, which he afterwards turned to good account. This you may see in his public speeches, but I am more completely convinced of it, since I have heard him converse. His illustrations are drawn from the workshop, the manufactory, the mine, the mechanic, the poet, from every art and science, from every...
Pagina 34 - Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Pagina 293 - Sidney, in a letter to his son, says, that in the whole of his life he never knew one man, of what condition soever, arrive at any degree of reputation in the world, who made choice of, or delighted in the company or conversation of those, who in their qualities were inferior, or in their parts not much superior to himself.