Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Somers to HunterC. Knight, 1838 |
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... afterwards died there , leaving his name to that cluster of islands , is said by Horace Walpole , in his Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors , ' to have been a member of the same family . The father of Somers was an attor- ney , in ...
... afterwards died there , leaving his name to that cluster of islands , is said by Horace Walpole , in his Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors , ' to have been a member of the same family . The father of Somers was an attor- ney , in ...
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... afterwards rendered him the ornament of his profession , and of the age in which he lived . About this time also he formed several connexions , which had great influence upon his subsequent success in life . The estates of the Earl of ...
... afterwards rendered him the ornament of his profession , and of the age in which he lived . About this time also he formed several connexions , which had great influence upon his subsequent success in life . The estates of the Earl of ...
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... afterwards , and did not remove to London until the year after his father's death , in 1681 , upon which event he succeeded to his paternal estate at Severnstoke . During his residence at Oxford he had the advan- tage of being ...
... afterwards , and did not remove to London until the year after his father's death , in 1681 , upon which event he succeeded to his paternal estate at Severnstoke . During his residence at Oxford he had the advan- tage of being ...
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... afterwards it was writ by Somers , who was much esteemed , and often visited by Lord Essex , and who trusted himself to him , and writ the best papers that came out in that time . " In later times , this work has been universally ...
... afterwards it was writ by Somers , who was much esteemed , and often visited by Lord Essex , and who trusted himself to him , and writ the best papers that came out in that time . " In later times , this work has been universally ...
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never have borne so distinguished a rank as a poet , as he afterwards attained as a lawyer and statesman , is by no means a contemptible performance . His translations from Ovid , and a version of Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades , are the ...
never have borne so distinguished a rank as a poet , as he afterwards attained as a lawyer and statesman , is by no means a contemptible performance . His translations from Ovid , and a version of Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades , are the ...
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Page 168 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written.
Page 274 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 107 - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England Examined and Asserted ; the other, The Freeholder's Plea against the Stock-jobbing Elections of Parliament-men.
Page 15 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice...
Page 284 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Page 494 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.
Page 44 - It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the lights which he afforded them.
Page 242 - Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
Page 149 - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
Page 195 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...