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... written by James Howell - I do not know upon what authority ) published on 14 March , 1647/8 , and entitled 64 A Letter to the Earle of Pembrooke concern- ing the times and the sad condition both of Prince and People . " - P . 9 ...
... written by James Howell - I do not know upon what authority ) published on 14 March , 1647/8 , and entitled 64 A Letter to the Earle of Pembrooke concern- ing the times and the sad condition both of Prince and People . " - P . 9 ...
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... writing to John Winthrop , jun . , from Providence on " July 12. 54 ( so call'd ) , " states that Peters " cries out ... written : - 66 Queen Eliza : and Mr Lambard . Given me by Sir Tho : Tysden who found it amongst his grandfathers Sir ...
... writing to John Winthrop , jun . , from Providence on " July 12. 54 ( so call'd ) , " states that Peters " cries out ... written : - 66 Queen Eliza : and Mr Lambard . Given me by Sir Tho : Tysden who found it amongst his grandfathers Sir ...
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... written anonymously at times . The Midnight Bell , ' bearing Francis Lathom's name on its title- e - page , has its ... writing the above that the spelling Elfordtown appears not only in two other local maps published in Plymouth and ...
... written anonymously at times . The Midnight Bell , ' bearing Francis Lathom's name on its title- e - page , has its ... writing the above that the spelling Elfordtown appears not only in two other local maps published in Plymouth and ...
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... written them , many of whose names are mentioned in the Preface . Miss G. E. Mitton again deserves praise for her careful editing , which has evidently been a labour of love . developments in the domain of print - collecting , and ...
... written them , many of whose names are mentioned in the Preface . Miss G. E. Mitton again deserves praise for her careful editing , which has evidently been a labour of love . developments in the domain of print - collecting , and ...
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... written by Mr. Thomas Waite , Under - Secretary in Dublin Castle , to Sir Robert Wilmot in the Irish Office in London . Robert Wilmot of Osmas- ton , Derby , was for more than thirty years Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ...
... written by Mr. Thomas Waite , Under - Secretary in Dublin Castle , to Sir Robert Wilmot in the Irish Office in London . Robert Wilmot of Osmas- ton , Derby , was for more than thirty years Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ...
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Page 410 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 356 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the...
Page 399 - O ! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Page 221 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose : They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play.
Page 184 - When I had gazed perhaps two minutes' space, Joanna, looking in my eyes, beheld That ravishment of mine, and laughed aloud. The rock, like something starting from a sleep, Took up the lady's voice, and laughed again : That ancient woman seated on Helm-Crag Was ready with her cavern : Hammer-Scar, And the tall steep of Silver-How, sent.
Page 200 - A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted, Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all "hues" in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 49 - THERE is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God. Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, "Be patient, heart; light breaketh by and by,
Page 221 - To leave for nothing all thy sum of good ; For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose ; in it thou art my all.
Page 359 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours: In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON'S droll page Illustrations in Colours and a Life of the Author by JC HOTTEN.
Page 149 - Perhaps I may all this time be talking to you of a book you have never seen, and which has not yet reached Ireland; if it has not, I believe what we have said will be sufficient to recommend it to your reading, and that you will order me to send it to you.