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... for a loving and beloved wife , and for children in whom it is my delight to watch the germs of the aesthetical and the spiritual * PETER PROLETARIUS . gradually unfold themselves ; -then it is that , in 14 INTRODUCTION .
... for a loving and beloved wife , and for children in whom it is my delight to watch the germs of the aesthetical and the spiritual * PETER PROLETARIUS . gradually unfold themselves ; -then it is that , in 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... wives and children , were then bought and sold like beasts of burden ) the liberty of buying and selling , like other men , in all fairs and markets ; the abo- lition of the obnoxious forest laws ; and some absurd demand about fixing ...
... wives and children , were then bought and sold like beasts of burden ) the liberty of buying and selling , like other men , in all fairs and markets ; the abo- lition of the obnoxious forest laws ; and some absurd demand about fixing ...
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... century later put into the mouth of Paulina , the wife of Antigonus , in answer to the Sicilian king , Leontes : - * II . Samuel chap . x . , verse 12 . " Leontes . Paulina . I'll have thee burn'd . 60 BERNARD GILPIN .
... century later put into the mouth of Paulina , the wife of Antigonus , in answer to the Sicilian king , Leontes : - * II . Samuel chap . x . , verse 12 . " Leontes . Paulina . I'll have thee burn'd . 60 BERNARD GILPIN .
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... wife for forty - seven years , John and Margaret Ascham both died on one day , and nearly at the same hour . As the parish registers at Kirby Wisk do not commence until 1615 , it is useless to search them for the subject of the present ...
... wife for forty - seven years , John and Margaret Ascham both died on one day , and nearly at the same hour . As the parish registers at Kirby Wisk do not commence until 1615 , it is useless to search them for the subject of the present ...
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... wife , she is the picture of her aunt Walop , and all that John Sturmius could wish the wife of Roger Ascham to be . " His patron , Gardiner , died on the twenty - second of October , 1555 ; but he was fortunate in having the familiar ...
... wife , she is the picture of her aunt Walop , and all that John Sturmius could wish the wife of Roger Ascham to be . " His patron , Gardiner , died on the twenty - second of October , 1555 ; but he was fortunate in having the familiar ...
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Page 131 - Yet he was kind; or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge...
Page 56 - I held my tongue, and spake nothing : I kept silence, yea, even from good words; but it was pain and grief to me.
Page 257 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 73 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 102 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 16 - Give me leave To enjoy myself : that place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-plac'd statues.
Page 257 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 84 - God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 379 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 256 - These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...