Letters Between the Rev. James Granger ... and Many of the Most Eminent Literary Men of His Time: Composing a Copious History and Illustration of His Biographical History of England. With Miscellanies, and Notes of Tours in France, Holland, and Spain, by the Same GentlemanLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - 534 pages |
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Page 275 - Is John departed, and is Lilburn gone? Farewell to both, to Lilburn and to John. Yet, being dead, take this advice from me, Let them not both in one grave buried be : Lay John here, and Lilburn thereabout, For if they both should meet they would fall out.
Page 209 - ... fortifications as might be necessary for their defence. From Nottingham there came sir John Digby, sir Hugh Cartwright, and a son and nephew of his, who had been good officers in the army, with many soldiers who had been under their command ; many other gentlemen of the three counties were present, and deserve to have their names recorded, since it was an action throughout of great courage and conduct.
Page 12 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his hand on his sword.\ Thus am I doubly arm'd ; my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
Page 103 - Christ, and was dug up by the order of Pope Barberini, named Urban VIII, between the years 1623 and 1644. The materials of which it is composed emulate an onyx, the ground a rich transparent dark amethystine colour, and the snowy figures which adorn it are in bas-relief, of the workmanship above all encomium, and such as cannot but excite in us the highest idea of the arts of the ancients.
Page 308 - She lived here from 1671 to 1687. It is still the only freehold in the street. " It was given by a long lease by Charles II. to Nell Gwyn, and upon her discovering it to be only a lease under the Crown, she returned him the lease and conveyances, saying she had always conveyed free under the Crown, and always would ; and would not accept it till it was conveyed free to her by Act of Parliament made on and for that purpose. Upon Nell's death it was sold, and has been conveyed free ever since.
Page 124 - Dr. Maundy, formerly of Canterbury, told me, that, in his travels abroad, some eminent physician, who had been in England, gave him a token to spend at his return with Dr. Radclifte and Dr. Case. They fixed on an evening, and were very merry, when Dr. Radcliffe thus began a health: ' Here, brother Case, to all the fools, your patients.
Page 274 - Jenkins, to enable him to torment and baffle the party in power. It was Jenkins who said of Lilburne that, " If the world were emptied of all but John Lilburne, Lilburne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilburne.
Page 269 - Cittie, and do hope you will accept the trouble thereof; which if you do, our desire is, you will not fail to be with us at Bathe, on Monday next, the eighth of this instant, by eight of the morning, at the furthest, for then we proceed to our election.
Page 110 - ... the Queen and Knights in the full habit of the Order; the Officers of the Order in proper robes ; the Heralds, &c. in black gowns, with their coats of arms over them ; and the Poor Knights in their proper habits. Over each Knight of the Garter are his arms ; and in a compartment below, his name, titles, &c. Between the two last arches is a view of Windsor Castle ; between all the others, a prospect of the country, &c. At the end is a Latin dedication to the Queen, with the signature
Page 274 - There wns scarcely a circumstance during the four years he was general that he did not commit to writing : and not even a letter appears to have bten penned of which he did not preserve a copy.