England & Wales delineated, by T. Dugdale, assisted by W. Burnett. (Curiosities of Great Britain).1830 |
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... late Mrs. Delaney , who procured for him the notice of King George III . An opportunity was contrived for the royal family to see his picture of the The Old Beggar Man ; soon after which , Opie was honoured with a command to repair to ...
... late Mrs. Delaney , who procured for him the notice of King George III . An opportunity was contrived for the royal family to see his picture of the The Old Beggar Man ; soon after which , Opie was honoured with a command to repair to ...
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... late Mrs. Opie , the amiable author of many beautiful and interesting literary compositions , he enjoyed a delightful relief from the toilsome duties of his profession . Mr. Opie was in the daily acquisition of wealth and fame , and ...
... late Mrs. Opie , the amiable author of many beautiful and interesting literary compositions , he enjoyed a delightful relief from the toilsome duties of his profession . Mr. Opie was in the daily acquisition of wealth and fame , and ...
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... late Rev. George Crabbe , emphatically styled Birth place the Poet of the Poor , who was born December 24 , 1754. His of the Rev. father was an officer in the Customs , and at first gave him an educa - George Crabbe , the tion , merely ...
... late Rev. George Crabbe , emphatically styled Birth place the Poet of the Poor , who was born December 24 , 1754. His of the Rev. father was an officer in the Customs , and at first gave him an educa - George Crabbe , the tion , merely ...
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... late Lord Galway , sold it in the year 1786 , to the late Duke of York , who afterwards occasionally resided in the park , with George IV . , then Prince of Wales . The estate , comprising four thousand five hundred and twenty - five ...
... late Lord Galway , sold it in the year 1786 , to the late Duke of York , who afterwards occasionally resided in the park , with George IV . , then Prince of Wales . The estate , comprising four thousand five hundred and twenty - five ...
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... late Duke of Northumberland . which bears the Percy crest on the parapet : there is also another bridge , of one arch , lower down the river ; these two bridges serve as boundaries to the fine lawns surrounding the castle . At the head ...
... late Duke of Northumberland . which bears the Percy crest on the parapet : there is also another bridge , of one arch , lower down the river ; these two bridges serve as boundaries to the fine lawns surrounding the castle . At the head ...
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Page 252 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Page 182 - We shall all meet finally: we only require different degrees of discipline, suited to our different tempers, to prepare us for final happiness.
Page 6 - A personage thus spoken of by biographers and historians loses little of his mystical fame in vulgar tradition. Accordingly, the memory of Sir Michael Scott survives in many a legend ; and in the south of Scotland, any work of great labour and antiquity is ascribed, either to the agency of Auld Michael, of Sir William Wallace, or of the devil.
Page 37 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end: its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Page 132 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 141 - Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king...
Page 132 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 260 - The company of which old Mr. Kemble was the manager, was more respectable than many other companies of strolling players ; but it was not in so flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the reach of the immediate smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this the following anecdote may be cited as an instance. A benefit had been fixed for some of the family, in which Miss Kemble, then a little girl, was to come forward in some part, as a juvenile prodigy. The taste of the audience was not, it...
Page 254 - Elizabeth, was first a papist, then a protestant ; then a papist, then a protestant again. This Vicar being taxed by one for being a turncoat, Not so, (said he,) for I always kept my principle ; which is this, to live and die Vicar of Bray.
Page 37 - Its crown is meekness; its life is everlasting love unfeigned, and takes its kingdom with entreaty, and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life.