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Strafford was a "rancorous renegade"; Swift a sort of gifted Judas; Bacon a mean fellow with a great intellect; Dryden again a renegade, though not rancorous; Marlborough a self-seeking traitor of genius. And all these conclusions were enforced in their own style the style of l'homme même.
It was evident, however, that the effort to understand and remember was weaker even than it had been yesterday, and that this was the effect of increased physical prostration. There was no longer any fever to supply temporary strength; but life was dying out quietly, but hopelessly. Mr. Strafford still waited, with some anxiety, for the decisive sentence.
Strafford, but alone. Lucia forgot her welcome, and greeted him with an exclamation of surprise and disappointment; then suddenly recollecting herself, she took him into the bright sitting-room and explained why she was astonished to see him alone. "I came straight from the wharf," he said, "and have seen nothing of Mrs. Costello, but I will walk back along the road and meet her."
Furnival, the Shakesperian, that Browning had been employed by Forster to write the account of Strafford, in the collection of Lives. He had been told this by Browning himself. Nevertheless, she set all her friends to work; had papers, letters, etc., ransacked for evidence, but with poor result.
But is not this king of ours as the Minotaur, dwelling in the labyrinths of deceit, and devouring the noblest in the land? There was his own Strafford, next his foolish Laud, and now comes my son, worth a host of such! 'In his letter, my lord of Glamorgan complaineth not of his majesty's usage, said the countess. 'My lord of Glamorgan is patient as Grisel.
Fitz-Gerald Mr. Thaxter, Mrs. Celia Thaxter Letter to Miss Hickey; 'Strafford' Shakspere and Wordsworth Societies Letters to Professor Knight Appreciation in Italy; Professor Nencioni The Goldoni Sonnet Mr. Barrett Browning; Palazzo Manzoni Letters to Mrs. Charles Skirrow Mrs.
Unless I am very much mistaken, he'll make his mark, and we shall hear more of him. There were others dining there that night whom it is interesting to recall. The Grotes were there. Mrs. One was George Byng, father of the first Lord Strafford, and 'father' of the House of Commons; the other Sir Robert Adair, who was Ambassador at Constantinople when Byron was there. Old Mr.
The impeachment and attainder of Strafford occupied the great part of March and April, 1641, and throughout those months the delegates from Ireland assisted at the pleadings in Westminster Hall and the debates in the English Parliament. The Houses at Dublin were themselves occupied in a similar manner.
Two years later appeared Paracelsus, and then his tragedy Strafford was put upon the stage; but not till Sordello was published, in 1840, did he attract attention enough to be denounced for the obscurity and vagaries of his style. Thereafter, until his own work compelled attention, he was known chiefly as the man who married Elizabeth Barrett.
Strafford had ever seen on it before; and as he came near to the bedside, he for the first time began to comprehend, what had always till now been an enigma to him, why Mary Wynter had loved and married her husband. Christian roused himself little when he perceived his visitor, and Mr.
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