Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Prime Minister 1710-1714: A Study of Politics and Letters in the Age of Anne

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Methuen & Company, 1902 - 256 頁

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第 147 頁 - ... the governor and company of the Bank of England, or by the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery...
第 226 頁 - Scriblerus was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each.
第 68 頁 - A Review of the Affairs of France, and of all Europe, as influenced by that Nation...
第 166 頁 - I was resolved to stay till I could tell you the queen had got so far the better of the dragon as to take her power out of his hands. " He has been the most ungrateful man to her, and to all his best friends, that ever was born. " I cannot have so much time now to write all my mind, because my dear mistress is not well ; and I think I may lay her illness to the charge of the Treasurer, who, for three weeks together, was teasing and vexing her without intermission ! And she could not get rid of him...
第 105 頁 - I think Mr. St. John the greatest young man I ever knew ; wit, capacity, beauty, quickness of apprehension, good learning, and an excellent taste ; the best orator in the house of commons, admirable conversation, good nature, and good manners ; generous, and a despiser of money.
第 193 頁 - The wolf dwells with the lamb, and the leopard lies down with the kid...
第 218 頁 - John Gay. I'm no more to converse with the swains, But go where fine people resort : One can live without money on plains, But never without it at court. If, when with the swains I did gambol, I array'd me in silver and blue : When abroad, and in courts I shall ramble, Pray, my lord, how much money will do...
第 173 頁 - It is with just resentment we observe that the pretender still resides in Lorraine, and that he has the presumption, by declarations from thence, to stir up your majesty's subjects to rebellion. But that which raises the utmost indignation of your commons is, that it appears therein that his hopes were built upon the measures that had been taken for some time past in Great Britain. It shall be our business to trace out those measures whereon he placed his hopes, and to bring the authors of them to...
第 223 頁 - The end of our Club is to advance conversation and friendship, and to reward deserving persons with our interest and recommendation. We take in none but men of wit or men of interest; and if we go on as we begin, no other Club in this town will be worth talking of.
第 213 頁 - He has the best skill in ancient hands and MSS. of any man not only of this, but, I believe, of any former age...

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