The Works of Thomas SackvilleJ. R. Smith, 1859 - 161 pages |
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WORKS OF THOMAS SACKVILLE Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, 1536,Reginald Windsor Sackville De La Warr No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 65 - ... breast, and all we might Wiped in vain with napkins next at hand, The sudden streams of blood that flushed fast Out of the gaping wound. O what a look...
Page 16 - But now the head to stoop beneath them both, Ne kind, ne reason, ne good order bears. And oft it hath been seen, where nature's course Hath been perverted in disordered wise, When fathers cease to know that they should rule, The children cease to know they should obey; And often over kindly tenderness Is mother of unkindly stubbornness.
Page 110 - With reckless hand in grave doth cover it ; Thereafter never to enjoy again The gladsome light, but in the ground ylain, In depth of darkness waste and wear to nought, As he had never into the world been brought.
Page 7 - VESTIGES OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF DERBYSHIRE, and the Sepulchral Usages of its Inhabitants, from the most Remote Ages to the Reformation. By Thomas Bateman, Esq., of Yolgrave, Derbyshire. In one handsome volume, 8vo, with numerous woodcuts of Tumuli and their contents, Crosses, Tombs, $-c.
Page 148 - Cro3sus' pomp, and Irus' poverty." * The following description of Night may likewise challenge a comparison with any thing on the same subject in the language : — , i . " Midnight was come, when every vital thing With sweet, sound sleep their weary limbs did rest ; The beasts were still, the little birds that sing, Now sweetly slept beside their mother's breast, The old and all were shrouded in their nest ; The waters calm, the cruel seas did cease, The woods, the fields, and all things held their...
Page 11 - Hcirship, as well as those Families mentioned by Sir William Dugdale, as of those whom that celebrated Author has omitted to notice : interspersed with Interesting Notices and Explanatory Remarks. Whereto is added the Proofs of Parliamentary Sitting from the Reign of Edward I to Queen Anne; also, a Glossary of Dormant English, Scotch, and Irish Peerage Titles, with references to presumed existing Heirs.
Page 5 - Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race, derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. 8vo, cloth. 6s (original price 12s 6d) Printed at the suggestion of Dr. Prichard, to whose works it will be found a useful supplement. JONES' (Morris Charles) Valle Crucis Abbey, its Origin and Fountion Charter.
Page 29 - The son whose swelling pride Would never yield one point of reverence, When I the elder and apparent heir Stood in the likelihood to. possess the whole; Yea, and that son which from his childish age Envieth mine honour, and doth hate my life.
Page 1 - The people, moved with the cruelty of the fact, rose in rebellion and slew both father and mother. The nobility assembled and most terribly destroyed the rebels. And afterwards, for want of issue of the Prince, whereby the succession of the...
Page 41 - O cruel Fates, O mindful wrath of gods ! Whose vengeance neither Simois * stained streams Flowing with blood of Trojan princes slain, Nor Phrygian fields made rank with corpses dead Of Asian kings and lords, can yet appease ; Ne slaughter of unhappy Priam's race Nor Ilion's fall, made level with the soil, Can yet suffice ; but still-continued rage Pursues our lives, and from the farthest seas Doth chase the issues of destroyed Troy.