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... lived and died , we may assume , the faithful and approved servant of the " unknown Welshman , " as Richard called him , who won for himself the more equivocal name of " the most prudent prince . " He was probably advanced in years when ...
... lived and died , we may assume , the faithful and approved servant of the " unknown Welshman , " as Richard called him , who won for himself the more equivocal name of " the most prudent prince . " He was probably advanced in years when ...
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... lived through unquiet times , when there was little accumulation , and men thought rather of safety than of indulgence : the days of security were at hand . Then came the luxuries that Harrison looked upon with much astonish- ment and ...
... lived through unquiet times , when there was little accumulation , and men thought rather of safety than of indulgence : the days of security were at hand . Then came the luxuries that Harrison looked upon with much astonish- ment and ...
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... lived so long became divided into two tenements ; and at the end of the last century the lower part of one was a butcher's shop . According to the Aubrey tradition , some persons believed this to have been the original shop where John ...
... lived so long became divided into two tenements ; and at the end of the last century the lower part of one was a butcher's shop . According to the Aubrey tradition , some persons believed this to have been the original shop where John ...
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... lived amidst old cere- monials derived from a long antiquity ; it waited upon the seasons ; it hal- lowed the seed - time and the harvest , and made the frosts cheerful . And thus it grew into Religion . The feeling became a principle ...
... lived amidst old cere- monials derived from a long antiquity ; it waited upon the seasons ; it hal- lowed the seed - time and the harvest , and made the frosts cheerful . And thus it grew into Religion . The feeling became a principle ...
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... lived in great honour and felicity . There was another collection , too , which that youth had diligently read , -- the ' Gesta Romanorum , ' translated by R. Robinson in 1577 , -old legends , come down to those latter days from monkish ...
... lived in great honour and felicity . There was another collection , too , which that youth had diligently read , -- the ' Gesta Romanorum , ' translated by R. Robinson in 1577 , -old legends , come down to those latter days from monkish ...
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Page 226 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 308 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 523 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Page 264 - Hear him but reason in divinity, And, all-admiring, with an inward wish You would desire the king were made a prelate...
Page 175 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be his last,) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.
Page 378 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Page 408 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 241 - tis he: why, he was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
Page 240 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 529 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.