World-noted Women, Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and AgesD. Appleton and Company, 1858 - 407 pages |
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... king , Charles VII . , who , as Dauphin , was the object of Joan's loyal championship ; Lady Jane Grey was grand - daughter to Charles Brandon , who married the widow - queen of Louis XII . , grandson to Valentina ; and so forth , along ...
... king , Charles VII . , who , as Dauphin , was the object of Joan's loyal championship ; Lady Jane Grey was grand - daughter to Charles Brandon , who married the widow - queen of Louis XII . , grandson to Valentina ; and so forth , along ...
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... king , and my own ; - A soft kiss he snatch'd ; I felt it scarce pass , Yet it flutter'd me , ere it was gone . I pretended to pout : -he wasn't then mine ; ( Yet my heart was fast his , from the very first dawn ; ) Nor then did we ...
... king , and my own ; - A soft kiss he snatch'd ; I felt it scarce pass , Yet it flutter'd me , ere it was gone . I pretended to pout : -he wasn't then mine ; ( Yet my heart was fast his , from the very first dawn ; ) Nor then did we ...
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... king , who returned no answer , but walked up and down his garden , as if in reverie , striking off the heads of the tallest flowers ( Livy says " poppies , ” — Ovid , แ ' lilies " ) with a switch he held in his hand . The man went back ...
... king , who returned no answer , but walked up and down his garden , as if in reverie , striking off the heads of the tallest flowers ( Livy says " poppies , ” — Ovid , แ ' lilies " ) with a switch he held in his hand . The man went back ...
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... king , at first but little alarmed , conceived nevertheless serious uneasiness respecting the future . The Etruscan soothsayers were usually consulted with regard to those presages which threatened public welfare ; but this one ...
... king , at first but little alarmed , conceived nevertheless serious uneasiness respecting the future . The Etruscan soothsayers were usually consulted with regard to those presages which threatened public welfare ; but this one ...
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... kings might be espoused to more fame , But king nor peer to such a peerless dame . Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator ; What needeth , then , apologies be made To set forth that which is so singular ...
... kings might be espoused to more fame , But king nor peer to such a peerless dame . Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator ; What needeth , then , apologies be made To set forth that which is so singular ...
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Page 48 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honours, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus?— I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 15 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 130 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love...
Page 111 - Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm : Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...
Page 111 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.
Page 267 - I will tell you,' quoth she ; ' and tell you a truth which, perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that He sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Page 35 - Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus Did softly press the rushes ere he waken'd The chastity he wounded. Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed ! fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets ! That I might touch ! But kiss ; one kiss ! Rubies unparagon'd, How dearly they do 't ! 'Tis her breathing that Perfumes the chamber thus ; the flame o...
Page 99 - And blesses her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain...
Page 66 - Her Ladies and Gentlewomen also, the fairest of them were apparelled like the Nymphs Nereids (which are the mermaids of the waters ) and like the Graces, some steering the helm, others tending the tackle and ropes of the barge, out of the which there came a wonderful passing sweet savour of perfumes, that perfumed the wharf's side, pestered with innumerable multitudes of people.
Page 288 - ... of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white down of birds: but every one with something: and a great chain of white beads about their necks.