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... celebrated authors , is placed beyond all doubt , by the following affecting documents , which it is impossible to read without a sigh of regret for the distresses of such men . " To our most loving friend , Mr. Philip Hinchlow , these ...
... celebrated authors , is placed beyond all doubt , by the following affecting documents , which it is impossible to read without a sigh of regret for the distresses of such men . " To our most loving friend , Mr. Philip Hinchlow , these ...
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... celebrated Elegy in a Church - yard , by Gray , is well known , and justly admired by every one who has the least pre- tensions to taste . But with all its polish , and deep poetic beauty and feeling , it always appeared to me to be ...
... celebrated Elegy in a Church - yard , by Gray , is well known , and justly admired by every one who has the least pre- tensions to taste . But with all its polish , and deep poetic beauty and feeling , it always appeared to me to be ...
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... celebrated Church of Hereford , 1502 , " fol . In what is called the Salisbury Missal , the lady pronounced a more general obe- dience , " to be bonere * and buxom in bedde and at the borde . " Edit . Wayland , 1554. 4to . Dibdin's ...
... celebrated Church of Hereford , 1502 , " fol . In what is called the Salisbury Missal , the lady pronounced a more general obe- dience , " to be bonere * and buxom in bedde and at the borde . " Edit . Wayland , 1554. 4to . Dibdin's ...
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... celebrated Sir William Wyndham , minister to queen Anne . Before the urchin well could go , She stole the whiteness of the snow ; And more that whiteness to adorn , She stole the blushes of the morn , - Stole all the sweets that ether ...
... celebrated Sir William Wyndham , minister to queen Anne . Before the urchin well could go , She stole the whiteness of the snow ; And more that whiteness to adorn , She stole the blushes of the morn , - Stole all the sweets that ether ...
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... celebrated as a loving wife and voluminous scribbler , has , in an epistle ap- pended to Sir William Musgrave's copy of the life of the duke her husband , ( a rare work ) preserved in the British Museum , given the following amusing ...
... celebrated as a loving wife and voluminous scribbler , has , in an epistle ap- pended to Sir William Musgrave's copy of the life of the duke her husband , ( a rare work ) preserved in the British Museum , given the following amusing ...
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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.