Our author was soon removed from his command as captain of the guard, which was bestowed upon Sir Thomas Erskin, his majesty's favourite as well as countryman[10], the predecessor to the earl of Mar, whose actions, performed in the year 1715, are recent in every one's memory.

Even those which I wrote myself were generally much improved by her, as is also the case with all the more recent of my prepared speeches, of which, and of some of my published writings, not a few passages, and those the most successful, were hers.]

As portrayed in early pictures of the King Charles and the Blenheim varieties, the tails are long, well flagged, and inclined to curve gracefully over the back, and in none of the pictures of the supposed ancestors of our present Toy Spanielseven so recent as those painted by Sir Edwin Landseerdo we find an absence of the long tail.

Knowing the nature of thy grief, Too deep, too recent for relief, Oh!

"Well, it is evident that the drawer contains something more recent than the love letters of Louis Fourteenth.

The positive change in passing from the recent to the ancient animal world is greater, but still singularly small.

121, 2. Murphy (Life of Garrick, p. 374) says 'Shortly after Garrick's death Johnson was told in a large company, "You are recent from the Lives of the Poets; why not add your friend Garrick to the number?" Johnson's answer was, "I do not like to be officious; but if Mrs. Garrick will desire me to do it, I shall be very willing to pay that last tribute to the memory of a man I loved."

Her love, her passionate, engrossing attachment, she did not scruple to avow; but she could not become a bride while the stains of blood seemed so recent on the very hearth around which they were sitting.

His earlier marriages had been productive only of daughters, while his later unions, and also his most recent with Haphsa, had been unfruitful.