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" High and mighty king, your grace, and these your nobles here present, may be pleased benignly to bow your ears to hear the tragedy of a young man, that by right ought to hold in his hand the ball of a kingdom ; but by fortune is made himself a ball, tossed... "
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 298
1787
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Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1774 - 540 pages
...the following fpeech made for Perkin to the King of Scotland. " High and mighty King ! your Grace " may be pleafed benignly to bow your ears to hear the...a kingdom, but by fortune is made himfelf a ball, tofled " from mifery to miferyWand from place to place." The following is a ftrangely forc'd allufion....
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Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1774 - 668 pages
...fpeech made for Perkin to the King of Scotland. " High and mighty King ! your Grace " may be plea fed benignly to bow your ears to hear the tragedy ** of...a kingdom, but by fortune is made himfelf a, ball, tofled " from mifery to mifery, and from place to place." The following is a ftrangely forc'd allufion....
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1778 - 532 pages
...Perk-in to the King of Scotland. " High " and mighty King ! your Grace may be ** pleafed benignly ro bow your ears to *^ hear the tragedy of a young man...from mifery " to mifery, and from place to place,''-, The following is a ftrangely forc'd allufion. Talking of Margaret Duc-hefs.t:of Burgundy, who had patronized...
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Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1778 - 550 pages
...the following fpeech made for Perkin to the King of Scotland. "High " and mighty King ! your Grace may be " pleafed benignly to bow your ears to " hear...kingdom, but by fortune is "** made himfelf a ball, to (Ted from mifery *' to mifery, and from place to place." The following is. a ftrangely forc'd allufion....
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 566 pages
...fpeech made for Perkin to the king of Scotland. *' High and mighty king I your Grace may be " plcafed benignly to bow your ears to hear the " tragedy of...kingdom, but by " fortune is made himfelf a ball, tofled from mifery " to mifery, and from place to place." The following is a ftrangely forced allufion....
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 77

1787 - 652 pages
...to fmooth the old language, and render it rather more plcafant to the ear.' .. - Bacsn. . 'Baton. * High and mighty King, your Grace, and thefe your nobles...a kingdom ; but by fortune is made himfelf a ball, to/Ted from mifery to mifery, and from place to place. ' You fee here before you the fpeclacle of a...
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1788 - 532 pages
...for Perkin to the King of Scotland. " High " and mighty King ! your Grace may be " pleafed beningly to bow your ears to " hear the tragedy of a young...kingdom, but by fortune is " made himfelf a ball, tofied from mifery " to mifery, and from place to place." The following is a ftrangely forced allufion....
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Sketches of the History of Man: In Four Volumes, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1802 - 220 pages
...fpeech made for Pevkin to'the King of Scotland. " High and migh" ty King ! your Grace may be ple.ifed benignly to bow " your ears to hear the tragedy of a young man that by * The following pafTige, Copied from an Edinburgh news-paper, may almort rival this eloquent piece....
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 534 pages
...made for Perkin to the King of Scotland. " High and mighty King T * your Grace may be pleafed beningly to bow " your ears to hear the tragedy of a young...kingdom, but by fortune is made himfelf a " ball, tofled from mifery to mifery, and from «' place to place." The following is a flrangely forced allufion....
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 pages
...for Perkin to the King of Scotland : " High and mighty King ! " your Grace may be pleased beningly to bow " ,your ears to hear the tragedy of a young...hand, the ball " of a kingdom, but by fortune is made himself a " ball, tossed from misery to misery, and from " place to place." The following is a strangely...
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