Traditions and Recollections: Domestic, Clerical, and Literary; in which are Included Letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtenay, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter, Scott, and Other Distinguished Characters, Volumen1J. Nichols and son, 1826 |
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Página 320 - TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
Página 16 - Domini, and that is enough to silence all passion in me. The God of Peace in His good time send us peace ! and in the mean time fit us to receive it. We are both on the stage, and we must act the parts that are assigned us in this tragedy. Let us do it in a way of honour, and. without personal animosities.
Página 222 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble...
Página 16 - Certainly my affections to you are so unchangeable that hostility itself cannot violate my friendship to your person, but I must be true to the cause wherein I serve. The old limitation usque ad aras holds still, and where my conscience is interested all other obligations are swallowed up.
Página 56 - COME, gentle sleep ! attend thy votary's prayer, And, though death's image, to my couch repair ; How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie, And, without dying, O how sweet to die ! DR.
Página 83 - A Letter to George Hardinge, Esq. on the subject of a Passage in Mr. Steevens's Preface to his impression of Shakespeare ;" and published anonymously in 1777, in vindication of Capell against Steevens.
Página 77 - The early promise of genius that broke through the uncouth manners of Opie is well told : "We were much entertained also by that unlicked cub of a carpenter Opie, who was now most ludicrously exhibited by his keeper, Wolcot — a wild animal of St. Agnes, caught among the tin-works. An incidental touch of his character, as staring in wonderment at an old family portrait...
Página 162 - Contempts and misprisions against the king's person and government may be by speaking or writing against them, cursing or wishing him ill, giving out scandalous stories concerning him, or doing any thing that may...
Página 22 - Sir, you will not only lay a huge obligation upon myself and all the Officers of this Army, but I dare assure you the General himself will take it for an especial favour, and will not let it go without a full acknowledgment.
Página 162 - But if there be any probable circumstances of assent, as if one goes to a treasonable meeting, knowing before-hand that a conspiracy is intended against the king ; or, being in such company once by accident, and having heard such treasonable conspiracy, meets the same company again, and hears more of it, but conceals it ; this is an implied assent in law, and makes the concealer guilty of actual high treason e.