Familiar Letters, Volym 1R. Wellington, 1705 - 207 sidor |
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Sida 5 - I'm out of favour with a certain poet, whom I have admired for the disproportion of him and his attributes. He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. If he falls on me at the blunt, which is his very good weapon in wit, I will forgive him if you please ; and leave the repartee to black Will with a cudgel...
Sida 60 - Ah, no ! better is a life among strangers, than in my own country upon such conditions. Whilst I live I will endeavour to preserve my liberty, or at least not consent to the destroying of it. I hope I shall die in the same principles in which I have lived, and will live no longer than they can preserve me.
Sida 60 - I will not blot and defile that which is past, by endeavouring to provide for the future. I have ever had in my mind, that when God should cast me into such a condition, as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing, he...
Sida 81 - The question, in my opinion, which now lies before your lordships, is not what we are to do, but whether at this time we can do any thing as a parliament; it being very clear to me that the parliament is dissolved...
Sida 55 - ... that condemned the late king ; and when I thought there was no other exception to you than your being of the other party, I spoke to the general...
Sida 60 - I have lived, and will live no longer than they can preserve me. I have in my life been guilty of many follies, but, as I think, of no meanness.
Sida 72 - I fuppofe none will make a queftion, but that every man and every caufe is to be tried according to Magna Charta, that is, by his peers, or according to the laws of the land : and he that is tried by the...
Sida 61 - ... most glorious in the world} and that others may find, they have with much pains purchased their own shame and misery, a dear price paid for that which is not worth keeping, nor the life that is accompanied with it.
Sida 81 - ... to come tolerable. Give me a word or two of comfort, or resolve never to look with common goodness on me more ; for I cannot bear a kind look, and after it a cruel denial. This minute my heart aches for you: and, if I cannot have a right in yours, I wish it would ache till I could complain to you no longer. Remember poor OTWAY.
Sida 30 - I think you love me, but the first of all my pretensions is to make it appear that I faithfully endeavour to deserve it. If there be a real good upon earth, 'tis in the name of friend, without which all others are merely fantastical. How few of us are fit stuff to make that thing, we have daily the melancholy experience.