Relics of LiteratureT. Boys, 1823 - 400 pages |
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anagram appears Aspleen baconne Balaam bishop body British Museum called character Charles Christian church copy Countess of Rochester court curious daughter dear death devil divine duke duke of Gloucester earl England English epigrams Fair Isle father fortune foul papers frae France French gentleman give grace half sheets folio hand happy hath haue heart heaven Henry Henry VIII honour husband isle James John John Garden king king's lady land Latin letter live Llyr London lord Macbeth majesty mind never night Oliver Cromwell papers parliament person poem poet pray present prince printed queen received reign religion Rochester Rome Scotland Selcraige servant sheets in folio shew singular soul spirit thee thereof things thou thought translation truth unto vellum Voltaire wife wine Witcham words write written yame
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Page 339 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 398 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 14 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
Page 200 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 395 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 87 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 68 - The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall, At every stroke the oars did tears let fall ; More clung about the barge ; fish under water Wept out their eyes ofpearle, and swome blind after.
Page 14 - I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.
Page 291 - ... would become, without the belief of a God^ how palsied would be human benevolence, were there not the sense...
Page 291 - ... to uprightness and the public good ; that an oath is unheard in heaven ; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator...