Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen AnneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 |
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Página 507 - This blow has so roused Scriblerus that he has recovered his senses, and thinks and talks like other men. From being frolicksome and gay he is turned grave and morose. His lucubrations lie neglected among old news-papers, cases, petitions, and abundance of unanswerable letters. I wish to God they had been among the papers of a noble Lord sealed up. Then might Scriblerus have passed for the Pretender, and it would have been a most excellent and laborious work for the Flying Post, or some such author,...
Página 87 - Let any man observe the equipages in this town, he shall find the greater number of those who make a figure, to be a species of men quite different from any that -were ever, known before the Revolution ; consisting either of generals and colonels, or of those, whose whole fortunes lie in funds and stocks ; so that power, which according to the old maxim was used to follow land, is now gone over to money...
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Página 493 - ... dragon as to take her power out of his hands. " He has been the most ungrateful man to her, and to all his best friends, that ever was born. " I cannot have so much time now to write all my mind, because my dear mistress is not well ; and I think I may lay her illness to the charge of the Treasurer, who, for three weeks together, was teasing and vexing her without intermission ! And she could not get rid of him till Tuesday last.
Página 98 - The fate of things lies always in the dark: What cavalier would know St. James's Park? For Locket's stands where gardens once did spring, And wild ducks quack where grasshoppers did sing ; A princely palace on that space does rise, Where Sudley's noble muse found mulberries.
Página 518 - I saw at that time several lords concur to condemn in one general vote all that they had approved in a former parliament by many particular resolutions. Among several bloody resolutions proposed and agitated at this time, the resolution of impeaching me of high treason was taken...