Records of My Life, Volume 2E. Bull, 1832 - Authors, English |
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Page 52 - Thrift, thrift, Horatio; the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Page 141 - And now about the cauldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. SONG. Black spirits and white, Red spirits and grey ; Mingle, mingle, mingle, You that mingle may.
Page 199 - Discard those little, personal resentments which have too long directed your public conduct. Pardon this man the remainder of his punishment, and, if resentment still prevails, make it what it should have been long since, an act, not of mercy but contempt.
Page 320 - CLIVE shall be no more. Lo! VINCENT comes — with simple grace array'd; She laughs at paltry arts, and scorns parade. Nature through her is by reflection shewn; 7°s Whilst GAY once more knows POLLY for his own.
Page 199 - You have still an honourable part to act. The affections of your subjects may still be recovered. But before you subdue their hearts, you must gain a noble victory over your own. Discard those little personal resentments which have too long directed your public conduct. Pardon this man...
Page 198 - When our gracious sovereign ascended the throne we were a flourishing and a contented people. If the personal virtues of a king could have insured the happiness, of his subjects, the scene could not have altered so entirely as it has done. The idea of uniting all parties, of trying all characters, and distributing the offices of state by rotation...
Page 266 - Post,' rather as rumour than assertion, that the lady in question had demanded a peerage and 6000/. a year, as a requital for her suppression of a fact which might have excited alarm over the empire, and have put an effectual stop to all farther proceedings on the subject of the pending regency.
Page 267 - Post' had sunk under his management into a very different state from its present fashionable interest and political importance, he was glad of the opportunity of relieving himself from a weight which he had not strength enough to carry. He, therefore, struck the iron while it was hot, received a large sum for his share of the paper, another for the time that he was to hold a control over it, and an annuity for life. . . . 'The Morning Post' was purchased for the allotted period, and I was vested...
Page 198 - To say nothing of the wisdom of such a plan, it undoubtedly arose from an unbounded goodness of heart, in which folly had no share. It was not a capricious partiality to new faces; .it was not a natural turn for low intrigue; nor was it the treacherous amusement of double and triple negotiations. No, Sir, it arose from a continued anxiety, in the purest of all possible hearts, for the general welfare.
Page 351 - Dear Sir, I have to thank you for a volume written in the good old style of our Elders and our Betters, which I am very glad to see is not yet extinct.