Relics of LiteratureT. Boys, 1823 - 400 pages |
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... poor estate to vn- dertake this most tiresome businesse , hoping the Lord will send a blessing vpon my labours taken in my vocation ; think- ing it as necessarie for the bookeseller ( considering the num- ber and nature of them ) to ...
... poor estate to vn- dertake this most tiresome businesse , hoping the Lord will send a blessing vpon my labours taken in my vocation ; think- ing it as necessarie for the bookeseller ( considering the num- ber and nature of them ) to ...
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... Ladies . " + Daborne was a clergyman , and the author of two plays , the " Christian turned Turk , " and " Poor Man's Comfort . " under his name is merely a Latin translation , and RELICS OF LITERATURE . 9 Original Story of King Lear.
... Ladies . " + Daborne was a clergyman , and the author of two plays , the " Christian turned Turk , " and " Poor Man's Comfort . " under his name is merely a Latin translation , and RELICS OF LITERATURE . 9 Original Story of King Lear.
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... poor , weak , afflicted man , to implore her mercy to see her . When she heard this , she wept , and enquired how many knights there were with him . The mes- senger declared , there was but one squire : she then wept more bitterly than ...
... poor , weak , afflicted man , to implore her mercy to see her . When she heard this , she wept , and enquired how many knights there were with him . The mes- senger declared , there was but one squire : she then wept more bitterly than ...
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... poor , to obtain relief from " the affliction of those terrible dreams that did shake him nightly . " Macbeth , and the lady Gruoch , his wife , gave the lands of Kirkness , and also the manor of Bolgy , to the Culdees of Lochleven ...
... poor , to obtain relief from " the affliction of those terrible dreams that did shake him nightly . " Macbeth , and the lady Gruoch , his wife , gave the lands of Kirkness , and also the manor of Bolgy , to the Culdees of Lochleven ...
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... poor men exceeding poor , and no mean , no proportion between both . Tenants of two manors ; whereof the one hath woods , fisheries , liberties , com- mons of estorvers , & c . - the other , a bare common , without profit ; only a ...
... poor men exceeding poor , and no mean , no proportion between both . Tenants of two manors ; whereof the one hath woods , fisheries , liberties , com- mons of estorvers , & c . - the other , a bare common , without profit ; only a ...
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Adderbury anagram appears baconne bishop body British Museum called Charles Christian church copy Cordeilla Countess of Rochester court curious daughter dear death devil divine duke earl Earl of Litchfield England English epigram fair father fortune foul papers frae France French gentleman give grace Gruoch half sheets hand happy hath haue heart heaven Henry honour husband isle of Britain James John Kenneth IV king king's knights lady land letter live Llyr London lord Lord Wilmot Macbeth majesty mind never Oliver Cromwell papers parliament person PHILIP MASSINGER poem poet poor pray present prince printed queen received reign Rochester Rome Scotland Selcraige sent servant shal sheets in folio shew soul thee things thou thought translation truth unto Voltaire Whichenour wife wine Witcham words write written yame
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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 14 - 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 200 - 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 87 - 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.
Page 68 - The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall, At every stroke the oars did tears let fall ; More clung about the barge ; fish under water Wept out their eyes ofpearle, and swome blind after.
Page 14 - I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.
Page 291 - ... would become, without the belief of a God^ how palsied would be human benevolence, were there not the sense...
Page 291 - ... to uprightness and the public good ; that an oath is unheard in heaven ; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator...