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... OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSIT OP 1868 LIBRARY O THE LIF UNIVERSI ITY OF 1868 THE UNIVERSIT NIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE UNIVERS 186E THE UNIVERSITY OF F CA King Henry the Eighth , King Charles the King George.
... OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSIT OP 1868 LIBRARY O THE LIF UNIVERSI ITY OF 1868 THE UNIVERSIT NIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE UNIVERS 186E THE UNIVERSITY OF F CA King Henry the Eighth , King Charles the King George.
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... Charles the Second ( Letter from Waller to St. Evremond ) Epitaph for Rare Ben ; by Mildmay Fane , Earl of Westmoreland The Fair Thief ; by the Earl of Egremont The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle Historical Account of the Custom of the ...
... Charles the Second ( Letter from Waller to St. Evremond ) Epitaph for Rare Ben ; by Mildmay Fane , Earl of Westmoreland The Fair Thief ; by the Earl of Egremont The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle Historical Account of the Custom of the ...
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... Charles II . Page . 76 76 • 77 · 77 330 80 82 84 • 84 · 85 • 88 89 91 · · 93 97 • · 98 999 99 . 100 101 104 · 105 . 108 • 110 111 • 112 113 115 · 116 · 117 · 117 • 126 Lines on the Great Fire of London I Would , CONTENTS . vii.
... Charles II . Page . 76 76 • 77 · 77 330 80 82 84 • 84 · 85 • 88 89 91 · · 93 97 • · 98 999 99 . 100 101 104 · 105 . 108 • 110 111 • 112 113 115 · 116 · 117 · 117 • 126 Lines on the Great Fire of London I Would , CONTENTS . vii.
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... Charles II . Poetical Coincidences and Quotations The Lady Buried Alive ; a romantic Story List of Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished Works Indian Eloquence • The Plague of Riches ; by the Rev. M. Pilkington Political Mystery Unravelled ...
... Charles II . Poetical Coincidences and Quotations The Lady Buried Alive ; a romantic Story List of Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished Works Indian Eloquence • The Plague of Riches ; by the Rev. M. Pilkington Political Mystery Unravelled ...
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... of Texts Literary Curiosity Singular Sermon Andrew Marvell's Tribute to Charles I. The Sense of the Nation Singular Surnames Page • 389 • 390 • 390 391 391 392 393 395 RELICS OF LITERATURE . Duke of Marlborough . The Earl xiv CONTENTS .
... of Texts Literary Curiosity Singular Sermon Andrew Marvell's Tribute to Charles I. The Sense of the Nation Singular Surnames Page • 389 • 390 • 390 391 391 392 393 395 RELICS OF LITERATURE . Duke of Marlborough . The Earl xiv CONTENTS .
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Page 289 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 397 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Page 80 - English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the queen commonly passes in her way to chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction that came to wait on her. It was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a great number of...
Page 339 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 398 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 8 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
Page 194 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 395 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 181 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Page 81 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.