Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...J. Murray, 1824 |
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... elegant accomplishments attracted my attention and reverence ; his long political career , ever marked by honour , integrity , talent and bene- ficence , was beheld by his numerous friends with delight and respect ; in these feelings ...
... elegant accomplishments attracted my attention and reverence ; his long political career , ever marked by honour , integrity , talent and bene- ficence , was beheld by his numerous friends with delight and respect ; in these feelings ...
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... elegant , and his rhymes more perfect , than those of Gray . He has nothing of Gray's alliteration , stiff- ness , or obscurity ; his images are drawn from real life ; and all he says comes home to men's business and manners . To what ...
... elegant , and his rhymes more perfect , than those of Gray . He has nothing of Gray's alliteration , stiff- ness , or obscurity ; his images are drawn from real life ; and all he says comes home to men's business and manners . To what ...
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... elegant epicurean , yet it was evident to all his intimates that he feared , " Manes aliquos et subterranea regna . ” — Juvenal . In his real politics he was an aristocrat , and would much rather have been a favoured courtier at ...
... elegant epicurean , yet it was evident to all his intimates that he feared , " Manes aliquos et subterranea regna . ” — Juvenal . In his real politics he was an aristocrat , and would much rather have been a favoured courtier at ...
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... elegant and noble conceptions , than by the language with which he clothes them . - Swift excels by his astonishing command of words , always common and always proper , not by their collocation or dress .-- No writer has attempted to ...
... elegant and noble conceptions , than by the language with which he clothes them . - Swift excels by his astonishing command of words , always common and always proper , not by their collocation or dress .-- No writer has attempted to ...
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... elegant scholar lowers himself by frequenting the tables or the conversazioni of the great , may be seen in a work of d'Alembert , which should lie on the desk of every scholar * . A further circumstance noticed by Mr. Wilkes and the ...
... elegant scholar lowers himself by frequenting the tables or the conversazioni of the great , may be seen in a work of d'Alembert , which should lie on the desk of every scholar * . A further circumstance noticed by Mr. Wilkes and the ...
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Seite 151 - ... against your Protestant brethren; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war.
Seite 148 - I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Seite 196 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Seite 149 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Seite 196 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Seite 386 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Seite 85 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Seite 89 - But while I expected, in this daring flight, his final ruin and fall, behold him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both Houses of Parliament. Yes, he did make you his quarry, and you still bleed from the wounds of his talons. You crouched, and still crouch, beneath his rage. Nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces,'...
Seite 196 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival. who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add...
Seite 26 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...