 | 1846 - 782 pages
...amorous in poetry and mu^ic, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time; and nothing could bave tempted him out of those paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in a full and am;-ï* fortune, but honour and ambition toser?* the king when he saw him in distress, and abandoned... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 pages
...Pegasus for a menage, than to mount him on the steeps of Parnassus." * * Lord Clarendon declares, " that nothing could have tempted him out of those paths...those who were in the highest degree obliged to him." One of the noble historian's finest portraits is of this duke : his duchess (a sister of Lord Lucas)... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 586 pages
...Pegasus for a menage, than to mount him on the steeps of Parnassus." * * Lord Clarendon declares, " that nothing could have tempted him out of those paths...those who were in the highest degree obliged to him." One of the noble historian's finest portraits is of this duke : his duchess (a sister of Lord Lucas)... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1849 - 570 pages
...that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time ; and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths...those who were in the highest degree obliged to him and by him. He loved monarchy, as it was the foundation and support of his own greatness ; and the... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1852 - 444 pages
...Besides he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time, and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths...ambition to serve the King when he saw him in distress. He liked the pomp and absolute authority of a general, and preserved the dignity of it to the full... | |
 | Thomas Bailey - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1852 - 458 pages
...nothing could have tempted him out of these paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in the possession of a full and ample fortune, but honour, and ambition...king, when he saw him in distress, and abandoned by roost of those who were in the highest degree obliged to him, and by him. He loved monarchy, as it... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
...Besides that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time; and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths...those who were in the highest degree obliged to him and by him." RoRN AD 1600. — DIED AD 1076. MATTHEW HALE was born at Alderley, in Gloucestershire,... | |
 | John Williams Clayton - Great Britain - 1859 - 372 pages
...poetry and musick, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time, and nothing could afterwards have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure, which...those who were in the highest degree obliged to him and by him. He loved monarchy, as it was the foundation and support of his own greatness, and the church,... | |
 | John William Clayton - 1859 - 404 pages
...poetry and musick, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time, and nothing could afterwards have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure, which...those who were in the highest degree obliged to him and by him. He loved monarchy, as it was the foundation and support of his own greatness, and the church,... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...Besides that he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time ; and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths...fortune, but honour and ambition to serve the king [Charles I.] when he saw him in distress, and abandoned by most of those who were in the highest degree... | |
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Besides that, he was amorous in poetry and music, to which he indulged the greatest part of his time; and nothing could have tempted him out of those paths of pleasure, which he enjoyed in a full and ample fortune, but honour and ambition to serve the... 
