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Common terms and phrasesAbsalom and Achitophel Anglesey Anthony Wood appears baron Biog bishop Bishop Burnet Brit Brydges Burnet called character Charles the second command copy countess court Cromwell death Digby discourse Dorset doth Dryden duchess duchess of Newcastle duke of Buckingham Earl of Rochester earl's edition Edward England epistle Essex father favour folio give grace Granger Harl hath heart Henry Hist honour House of Lords House of Peers Ireland James John king's lady late learned letter lived Lond lord Clarendon lord North lord Orford lord Rochester Lord Shaftesbury lordship majesty majesty's marquis Memoirs nature never Newcastle noble nobleman observes Oxford Oxon parliament passion Peerage peers person philosophical Poems poet prince printed published racter Rebellion reign religion remarkable Restoration seems Shaftesbury Speech thee thing thought tract true verses Vide viscount vol.ii volume wherein Wood writing written wrote Popular passagesPage 104 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected... Page 322 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Page 278 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason, and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will! Page 269 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Page 352 - ... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgment in question. Page 116 - Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Page 180 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Page 262 - My dear mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave me, When, with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weak She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break, Should we live one day asunder. Page 189 - Besides that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time; and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune, but honour and ambition to serve the king when he saw him in distress, and abandoned by most of those who were in the highest degree obliged to him, and by him. Page 40 - I scorn your proffers. I disdain your favor. I abhor your treason ; and am so far from delivering up this island to your advantage, that I will keep it, to the utmost of my power, to your destruction. References from web pagesInternet Archive: Details: A catalogue of the royal and noble ... 1806. A CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS (III) en venta en ... Bibliographic information
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