The Correspondence of the Late John Wilkes: With His Friends, Printed from the Original Manuscripts, in which are Introduced Memoirs of His Life, Volume 3R. Phillips, 1805 |
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Page 69 - Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has plann'd, And laughing Ceres reassume the land.
Page 28 - I was drunk, and form no favourable opinion of his lordship from a duel at such a time ; that it more became us both to take a cool hour of the next morning, as early a one as was agreeable to Lord Talbot.
Page 36 - His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the Inn to drink a bottle of claret together, which we did with great good humour and much laugh.
Page 19 - Unhappy Stuart! harshly though that name Grates on my ear, I should have died with shame To see my king before his subjects stand, And at their bar hold up his royal hand; At their commands to hear the monarch plead, By their decrees to see that monarch bleed.
Page 30 - Lordship replied that he insisted on finishing the affair immediately. I told him that I should very soon be ready; that I did not mean to quit him, but would absolutely first settle some important business relative to the education of...
Page 59 - And hob or nob in cider and excise. and a grove of venerable old elms near the house, with the retiredness of the mansion itself, made it as sweet a retreat as the most poetical imagination could create. Sir Francis Dashwood, Sir Thomas Stapleton, Paul Whitehead, Mr. Wilkes, and other gentlemen, to the number of twelve, rented the abbey, and often retired there in the summer.
Page 193 - Churchill came into the room. I had heard that their " verbal orders were likewise to apprehend him, but I " suspected they did not know his person ; and, by " presence of mind, I had the happiness of saving my " friend. As soon as Mr. Churchill entered the room, I " accosted him : ' Good-morrow, Mr. Thomson. How " ' does Mrs. Thomson do to-day ? Does she dine in the " ' country ?
Page 197 - ... they had committed, in my person, against the liberties of the people.' Lord Halifax answered, ' that nothing had been done but by the advice of the best lawyers, and that it was now his duty to examine me.
Page 86 - No. 45, is a false, scandalous, and seditious libel, containing expressions of the most unexampled insolence and contumely towards his majesty, the grossest aspersions against both Houses of Parliament, and the most audacious defiance of the authority of the whole legislature...
Page 186 - God for those very verses, at a time when I was absent, and dangerously ill from an affair of honour. The charge too he knew was false, for the whole ridicule of those two pieces was confined to certain mysteries, which formerly the unplaced and unpensioned Mr. Pitt did not think himself obliged even to affect to believe. He added another charge equally unjust, that I was the...