Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 12R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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admiration Alfred Percy Alfred's answer appeared Buckhurst Caroline's character Clay-hall Clermont-park Commissioner Falconer coner count Albert count Alten count Altenberg countenance court of Denmark cried lady daugh daughter dear duke of Greenwich English Clay esteem eyes Falconer-court Falconer's father favour feel felt fortune French Clay gentleman give gout Gresham hand happy hear heard heart honour hope Hungerford knew lady Frances Arlington lady Jane Granville lady Trant ladyship Leicester letter look lord Old lord Oldborough lord William lordship ma'am majesty manner marriage married ment mind minister miss Caroline Percy miss Falconers miss Georgiana Falconer morning mother ness never observed passion Percy family Percy-hall Percy's Petcalf pleasure political prince racter recollect Rosamond seal sir Robert Percy smile Spandrill speak sure tell Temple thing thought tion Tourville voice whilst wish woman word young lady Zara
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Page 107 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 107 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Page 296 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Page 91 - Osman had not his part by heart, but still Zara covered all deficiencies : and Osman did no worse than other Osmans had done before him, till he came to the long speech, beginning with, " The sultans, my great ancestors, bequeath'd Their empire to me, but their tastes they gave not.
Page 315 - And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place. To leave you thus might seem unkind, But see the Goat is just behind.