Memoirs of George Selwyn and His Contemporaries, Volume 2L. C. Page, 1902 |
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Adieu affectionately afterward agreeable arrived Beauclerk Bedford believe brother Bunbury Carlisle to George celebrated certainly Charles James Fox compliments daughter dear George DEAR SELWYN DEAR SIR desire died dine Duchess Duke of Grafton Earl of Carlisle Earl of March England French George Selwyn George the Third Gilly Williams give glad Gloucester hear Holland to George honour hope Horace Walpole John king Lady Holland Lady Sarah letter live London Lord Byron Lord Carlisle Lord Chatham Lord Holland Lord March Madame du Deffand Madame Geoffrin March to George Marquis married Matson morning Naples never Newmarket Northumberland obliged opera Paris Parliament person Pitt pleasure Pray received Rena Royal Highness servant soon sorry spirits stay suppose sure tell thing tion to-day to-morrow told town Townshend Turin White's Williams to George wish write wrote yesterday Zamperini
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Page 293 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 150 - XXIX Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine: Yet one I would select from that proud throng, Partly because they blend me with his line, And partly that I did his sire some wrong...
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Page 46 - They did not stay long, but walked down to the Thames, took a boat, and rowed to Billingsgate. Beauclerk and Johnson were so well pleased with their amusement, that they resolved to persevere in dissipation for the rest of the day: but Langton deserted them, being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies.
Page 293 - Oh, Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Page 44 - Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man...
Page 9 - Romanorum," the author of the "Mysterious Mother," a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he may.
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Page 341 - Voltaire, dictates charming letters to him, contradicts him, is no bigot to him or anybody, and laughs both at the clergy and the philosophers. In a dispute, into which she easily falls, she is very warm, and yet scarce ever in the wrong: her judgment on every subject is as just as possible; on every point of conduct as wrong as possible; for she is all love and hatred, passionate for her friends to enthusiasm, still anxious to be loved, — I don't mean by lovers, — and a vehement enemy, but openly.
Page 344 - Renault's, as she thought it would amuse me. In short, her goodness to me is so excessive, that I feel unashamed at producing my withered person in a round of diversions, which I have quitted at home.