Female Biography; Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries: Alphabetically Arranged, المجلد 6Richard Phillips, 1803 |
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الصفحة 415 - hast kill'd another,, Fair, and learn'd, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. Marble piles let no man raise To her name, for
الصفحة 416 - in making him a man, which yet she did, in some judgments, recompence in beauty, her pen being nothing short of his, as I am ready to attest, so far as so inferior a reason may be taken, having seen incomparable letters of hers. But lest I should seem to trespass upon truth, which few do
الصفحة 331 - threw herself at the feet of the king, and pleaded with tears the merits and loyalty of her father, as an atonement for those offences into which her husband had been drawn, by honest though erroneous principles. Charles beheld unmoved the daughter of his best friend weeping at his feet:
الصفحة 474 - The UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHICAL and HISTORICAL DICTIONARY; being a faithful Account of the Lives, Actions, and Characters of the most eminent Persons of all Ages. and Countries, with the Revolutions of States, and the Succession of Sovereign Princes; containing two thousand Articles more than are to be found in
الصفحة 96 - Lincoln's Inn, and in the king's •court, from the lowest degree to the highest; and yet have I, in yearly revenues, at this present time, little left me above one hundred pounds
الصفحة 416 - far as so inferior a reason may be taken, having seen incomparable letters of hers. But lest I should seem to trespass upon truth, which few do unsuborned (as I protest I am, unless by her rhetoric), I shall leave the world her epitaph, in which the author doth manifest himself a poet, in all things but untruth.
الصفحة 460 - An Epistle to Flavia, on the sight of two Pindaric Odes, on the Spleen and' Vanity, written by a Lady to her Friend." A collection of the countess's poems was printed in London, together with a tragedy, never acted, entitled " Aristomenes.
الصفحة 98 - hope, that they do not only persevere with you, but that they are, by God's grace, much more increased.' During the imprisonment of sir Thomas, a frequent intercourse of letters passed between him' and this beloved daughter; and, when deprived of pen and ink, he contrived to write
الصفحة 388 - overhearing this conversation, concluded they had formed a conspiracy for the murder of some prince, whose real name they disguised under that of Mazare. Full of this important discovery, they imparted their suspicions to. the host and hostess, when it was unanimously determined to inform the police officer of what had happened. The officer, happy to
الصفحة 341 - had wearied myself with thinking to no purpose, I rang my bell. The servant in waiting, when I told him •what had happened, begged pardon for having by mistake given me a mould candle, with a gunpowder squib in it, which was intended to make sport among the fellow-servants on a rejoicing day.