 | Edward Edwards - 1870 - 820 páginas
...effectual explosion JHSMISSAL came. BOLINGBKOKE'S triumph lasted exactlv four davs. "XFOIU>'3 L «• 'The Earl of OXFORD was removed on Tuesday. The Queen died on Sunday. What a world is this ! And UIATH. ^^ 171 A how does Fortune banter us ! .... I have lost all by the death of the Queen, but my... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 396 páginas
...death may be summed up in the words of Bolingbroke (applied in a very different spirit) : — " The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday — the queen...What a world is this, and how does Fortune banter us !" CHAP. XXXIII. Character of George I. 259 CHAP. XXXIII. — THE HOUSE OF BRUNSWICK OR HANOVER. GEORGE... | |
 | sir John Skelton - 1876 - 430 páginas
...August 1714, Anne breathed her last. Bolingbroke felt instinctively that his career was wrecked. " The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday ; the Queen...a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!" Yet he did not give way to craven anticipations, nor to unmanly depression. He told Swift, ten days... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 páginas
...thirteenth of her reign. "The Earl of Oxford," says the still bewildered Bolingbroke in a letter to Swift, "was removed on Tuesday; the queen died on Sunday....What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us !" On the evening of the 1st of August the Duke of Marlborough approached the English coast : near... | |
 | François Guizot - 1876 - 568 páginas
...boldness," exclaimed the bishop bitterly. "The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday," wrote Bolingbroke, "the queen died on Sunday. What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!" SHREWSBURY INVESTED WITH THE WHITE ROD. Other blows were in store for this clever arid wily intriguer,... | |
 | 1878 - 646 páginas
...stupor, in which she remained till she died on August 1st. On the 3rd, Bolingbroke wrote to Swift : ' The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday : the Queen...What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us ! ' A recent article on the ' Age of Queen Anne,'* relieves us from the necessity of dwelling further... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 páginas
...bells, and crackling of bonfires. "The Earl of Oxford," wrote the defeated Bolingbroke to Swift, " was removed on Tuesday ; the Queen died on Sunday....What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us ! " * This scems to have been the case nil over the country. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, writing from... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 páginas
...bells, and crackling of bonfires. " The Earl of Oxford," wrote the defeated Bolingbroke to Swift, " was removed on Tuesday ; the Queen died on Sunday....What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us ! " * This seems to have been the case all over the country. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, writing from... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 660 páginas
...would be in grave danger.1 The feelings of Bolingbroke may be clearly seen in his own words : ' The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday, the Queen died on Sunday ! What a world is this, and bow does fortune banter us ! ' 2 The new King was at once proclaimed, and it is a striking proof of... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 642 páginas
...juste Mgr. L'Electeur pour faire reussir leur projet aussitost d'Hanovre sera proclam£ Boy et prenthe Queen died on Sunday! What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us ! ' l The new King was at once proclaimed, and it is a striking proof of the danger of the crisis that... | |
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The Earl of Oxford was removed on Tuesday,— " the Queen died on Sunday! What a world is " this, and how does Fortune banter us !" says Bolingbroke.* * Letter to Swift, Aug. 
