The Life and Times of William IV.: Including a View of Social Life and Manners During His Reign, Volume 2Tinsley brothers, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Page 239 - to talk together with all imaginable ease. A singular instance happened one evening, when she insisted that some of Sterne's writings were very pathetic. Johnson bluntly denied it. ' I am sure,' said she, ' they have affected me.' ' Why,' said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, ' that is because, dearest, you're a dunce.
Page 10 - seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up
Page 167 - when he undertakes to use sea terms.' "Mr. Planta took down the volume, and read the passage. One sentence in it runs thus : ' It was a very fierce storm, the sea broke strange and dangerous; we hauled off upon the lanniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm.
Page 239 - Johnson was prevailed with to come sometimes into these circles, and did not think himself too grave even for the lively Miss Monckton (now Countess of Cork), who used to have the finest bit of blue at the house of her mother, Lady Galway. Her vivacity enchanted the sage, and
Page 240 - were in love with me, should I not be very happy?' My friend, with much address, evaded my interrogatories, and kept me as quiet as possible; but it may easily be conceived how he must have felt However, when a few days afterwards I waited upon him and made an apology, he behaved with the most friendly gentleness.
Page 326 - oath of Secretary of State. The King then resumed: ' It is likewise necessary for me to dispose of the Seals of the other two Secretaries of State, and I therefore place them likewise for the present in the same hands, as he is already First Lord of the Treasury and Secretary of State for the Home Office.
Page 328 - that His Majesty's Commons could not but lament that the progress of Reform should have been interrupted and endangered, by the dissolution of a Parliament earnestly intent upon the vigorous prosecution of measures to which the wishes of the people were most anxiously and justly directed. This was
Page 128 - The Duke of Wellington has ever been the votary of circumstances. He cares little for causes. He watches events rather than seeks to produce them. It is a characteristic of the military mind. Rapid combinations, the result of a quick, vigilant, and comprehensive glance, are generally triumphant in the field ; but in
Page 171 - alarmed, decorous. A priest is scarcely deemed in our days a fit successor to the authors of the Gospels if he be not the editor of a Greek play ; and he who follows St. Paul must now at least have been private tutor of some young nobleman who has taken a good degree!
Page 153 - avenue and the terrace, the busts and the paintings, the carving, the grotesque gilding, and the enigmatical mottoes. With peculiar fondness, they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room. They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning