Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time, Band 2R. Bentley, 1836 |
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Seite 86 - Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Seite 263 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Seite 73 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Seite 189 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Seite 178 - O softly-swelling hills! On which the Power of Cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil.
Seite 205 - ... rust adore : This, the blue varnish, that, the green endears, The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. To gain Pescennius one employs his schemes ; One grasps a Cecrops in ecstatic dreams...
Seite 191 - There are, indeed, three events in our history, which may be regarded as touchstones of party-men. An English Whig, who asserts the reality of the popish plot, an Irish Catholic, who denies the massacre in 1641, and a Scotch Jacobite, who maintains the innocence of Queen Mary, must be considered as men beyond the reach of argument or reason, and must be left to their prejudices.
Seite 176 - ... sagacious, masculine intellect, with a thorough knowledge of man. If I were compelled to name the particular individual who had received from nature the keenest common sense of any person I ever knew, I should select the Duke of Queensberry. Unfortunately, his sources of information, the turf, the drawing-room, the theatre, the great world, were not the most pure, nor the best adapted to impress him with favourable ideas of his own species.
Seite 178 - It is however a fact that the Duke performed, in his own drawingroom, the scene of Paris and the Goddesses. Three of the most beautiful females to be found in London presented themselves before him, precisely as the divinities of Homer are supposed to have appeared to Paris on Mount Ida ; while he, habited like ' the Dardan shepherd,' holding a gilded apple in his hand, conferred the prize on her whom he deemed the fairest.
Seite 336 - The question was put and carried. Mr. Frederick Montague then rose and moved, " That Mr. Burke, in the name of the House of Commons, and of all the Commons of Great Britain, do go to the bar of the House of Lords, and impeach Warren Hastings...