The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart, Volumen1Cochrane and M'Crone, 1834 - 428 páginas |
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Página 117 - That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song...
Página 320 - To this band of immortals a third has since been added ! — a mightier genius, a haughtier spirit, whose stubborn impatience and Achilles-like pride only Death could quell. Greece, Italy, the world, have lost their poet-hero ; and his death has spread a wider gloom, and been recorded with a deeper awe, than has waited on the obsequies of any of the many great who have died in our remembrance. Even detraction has been silent at z6o his tomb ; and the more generous of his enemies have fallen into...
Página 408 - Solicitor-General, who is an admirable scholar, sent me four or five Greek epigrams of his own. I had a mind to thank each of them, and found I could do so with great ease to myself in ten hendecasyllables.
Página 13 - Confusion grew upon confusion, and every day it became a more tremendous task to look into things. " My bitterest enemy cannot condemn the utter thoughtlessness of worldly affairs in which I then lived more than I do. It was a sort of infatuation, which, having once been plunged into, I had not the courage to extricate myself from. I knew not what my income was ; but no doubt my expenditure exceeded it by many thousands ; I kept very imperfect accounts, and every one cheated me.
Página 181 - He had a vast memory, and a great facility of feeble verbiage ; but his vanity, his self-conceit, and his supercilious airs offended everybody. He was a tall, handsome man, with a fair, regular-featured face, and the appearance of good birth. For many years he resided at Tunbridge Wells, where he affected a sort of dominion over the Pantiles, and paid court, a little too servile, to rank and title. He wrote some good comedies...
Página 49 - Andre," all about his attachment, and Honora Sneyd, &c., is a nonsensical falsehood, of her own invention. Among her numerous sonnets, there are not above five or six which are good ; and I cannot doubt that Dr. Darwin's hand is in many of her early poems. The inequalities of all her compositions are of the nature of patchwork.
Página 394 - I was about six or seven years his junior in age, and was placed in the same class with him; in which, after a short struggle, I won the next place to him, and kept it till I quitted school for Cambridge, in the autumn of 1780, in my eighteenth year.
Página 173 - Fencible Cavalry, which struck me as a proof that he was a man of sentiment and moral reflection. He seemed to other eyes to be then in the bloom of his successful career. We were talking of the enjoyments of youth : I believe he was at least nine years younger than I was ; but he had already had some experience of public life.
Página 350 - ... by the rules of law that prescribe the limitation of actions, and it is one of the brightest privileges of our order, that we transmit to our descendants a title to the honours we have inherited or earned ; which is incapable either of alienation or surrender. But I will go further, and assert that lapse of time ought not in any way to prejudice the claimant, for what laches can be imputed in a case where there has been continual claim? Nicholas, the second Earl of Banbury, presented his petition...
Página 13 - I held in hand were numerous. In short, mine was a sort of ' Castle Rack-rent,' in which all was disorder, and all was waste, while those that plundered me most, and lived on me most, abused me most ; and I then spent more in a week than I now spend in three months. Confusion grew upon confusion ; and every day it became a more tremendous task to look into things, "My bitterest enemy cannot condemn the utter thoughtlessness of worldly affairs in which I then lived more than I do. It was a sort of...