Tales of Our Great Families, 第 2 卷Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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appears AUTHOR OF JOHN Baron Berkeley brother Buckingham Castle century Champion character Charles charming coronation coronet Courcy Court Courtenay daughter death died Dixon Duchess Duke of Wharton Dymoke Earl Earldom Edition Edward eldest England English estates extinct father favour fortune France friends gentleman George Hanger Grace Haddon Hall hand heir heiress Henry Henry VIII honour Horace Walpole House of Courtenay House of Lords House of Peers human nature HURST AND BLACKETT'S husband interest Ireland Irish Irish peerage JOHN HALIFAX King knight Knight of Malta Lady land late lived London Lord Charles Townshend Lord Lyttelton lordship Marquis marriage married matter never noble novel OLIPHANT Parliament passed Peerage person pleasant present Prince Queen quoth readers reign royal Scrivelsby Simon Eyre Sir Bernard Burke Sir John Sir William Stafford story tell Thomas told Townshend vols volume Walpole wife young
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第 226 頁 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
第 247 頁 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
第 26 頁 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
第 108 頁 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
第 27 頁 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
第 51 頁 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...