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... Court- beer , and Court - ale , and a provision of March - beer to save Wine . " . See MS . Lansd . , No. 49. , art . 22 . - HENRY ELLIS . DIVINATIONS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY . A once extremely popular little folk - book in my collection ...
... Court- beer , and Court - ale , and a provision of March - beer to save Wine . " . See MS . Lansd . , No. 49. , art . 22 . - HENRY ELLIS . DIVINATIONS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY . A once extremely popular little folk - book in my collection ...
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... court , for , as she observes , " my grandmother is dead . " Now , no book on the stage that I have seen informs us when Margaret Hughes died . Mr. Croker's note on the passage is , " This must have been Margaret Hughes . " My object in ...
... court , for , as she observes , " my grandmother is dead . " Now , no book on the stage that I have seen informs us when Margaret Hughes died . Mr. Croker's note on the passage is , " This must have been Margaret Hughes . " My object in ...
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... Court , and Lettice , no doubt , saw and was acquainted with the youthful sovereign . The succession of Mary threw the family of Lettice into the shade . As a relative of the Boleyns , and the child of a Puri- tan , she could expect no ...
... Court , and Lettice , no doubt , saw and was acquainted with the youthful sovereign . The succession of Mary threw the family of Lettice into the shade . As a relative of the Boleyns , and the child of a Puri- tan , she could expect no ...
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... Court , would naturally attract the attention and share the courtesies of the lively Henrietta and the grave , stately , formal Charles . He was the sixth English sovereign ( or the seventh , if Philip be counted ) whom she had seen ...
... Court , would naturally attract the attention and share the courtesies of the lively Henrietta and the grave , stately , formal Charles . He was the sixth English sovereign ( or the seventh , if Philip be counted ) whom she had seen ...
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... Court . Charles presided over the council , and gave his attention without obstacle to the affairs of the parliament and army . " There were councils under Ina , in the seventh , and Offa , in the following century . Spelman ascribes ...
... Court . Charles presided over the council , and gave his attention without obstacle to the affairs of the parliament and army . " There were councils under Ina , in the seventh , and Offa , in the following century . Spelman ascribes ...
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Page 67 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend t For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 326 - Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told.
Page 326 - All may of thee partake; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, 'for thy sake,' Will not grow bright and clean.
Page 116 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 149 - Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 197 - It ceased ; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, — A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 355 - A MIGHTY pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; But, of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.
Page 22 - O come, let us worship, and fall down : and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 380 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Page 374 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.