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... remarkable Maps and Views . The View of Venice is more than five feet long , and the Map of the Holy Land is more than three feet long , besides many others equally curious . A copy on vellum sold at West's Sale in 1773 , for 15l . 15s ...
... remarkable Maps and Views . The View of Venice is more than five feet long , and the Map of the Holy Land is more than three feet long , besides many others equally curious . A copy on vellum sold at West's Sale in 1773 , for 15l . 15s ...
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... to Cardinal Wolsey ; his remarkable boldness , in singly daring , in his poetical character , to * See Bibliotheca Pearsoniana , 2421 . attack the Cardinal's imperious manner at the Council Board , 14 JOURNEY ROUND A.
... to Cardinal Wolsey ; his remarkable boldness , in singly daring , in his poetical character , to * See Bibliotheca Pearsoniana , 2421 . attack the Cardinal's imperious manner at the Council Board , 14 JOURNEY ROUND A.
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... remarkable coincidence by Neve , in his Cursory Remarks on English Poets . The fifteenth article of the charges against the Cardinal , by the Parlia- ment of 1529 , being precisely the same , only divested of rhyme : - " " Then in the ...
... remarkable coincidence by Neve , in his Cursory Remarks on English Poets . The fifteenth article of the charges against the Cardinal , by the Parlia- ment of 1529 , being precisely the same , only divested of rhyme : - " " Then in the ...
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... remarkable querity of aspect , and of as singular a 4 * He had a head mis - shapen like that of Thersites in Homer , but the cone stood in a different position ; the picked part being before . See Fuller's Worthies in Somerset , p . 31 ...
... remarkable querity of aspect , and of as singular a 4 * He had a head mis - shapen like that of Thersites in Homer , but the cone stood in a different position ; the picked part being before . See Fuller's Worthies in Somerset , p . 31 ...
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... remarkable of his works , -the " Crudities . " Had he lived to return to England , ( says Mr. Aubrey , MS . in Mus . Ashmol . ) his Travels had been most estimable ; for though he was not a wise man , he wrote faithfully matter of fact ...
... remarkable of his works , -the " Crudities . " Had he lived to return to England , ( says Mr. Aubrey , MS . in Mus . Ashmol . ) his Travels had been most estimable ; for though he was not a wise man , he wrote faithfully matter of fact ...
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Page 82 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 92 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 65 - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Page 33 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 29 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 71 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Page 70 - They are full of spirit and poetry; as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter: they were written at the university when he was about twenty-three years old, and in queen Elizabeth's time.