The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies..Charles Knight & Company, 1845 - Authors |
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... heart with despair ; nor was it without the greatest and most painful reluctance that she gave way to the neces- sity of leaving a country over which she had so long expected to reign . But , in less than four months after the death of ...
... heart with despair ; nor was it without the greatest and most painful reluctance that she gave way to the neces- sity of leaving a country over which she had so long expected to reign . But , in less than four months after the death of ...
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... heart of a young man , though not to preserve it very long . " His lordship nevertheless declines affirm- ing that Henry was really in love , -that his acceptance of Eleanor's offer of her hand was prompted by any other passion than his ...
... heart of a young man , though not to preserve it very long . " His lordship nevertheless declines affirm- ing that Henry was really in love , -that his acceptance of Eleanor's offer of her hand was prompted by any other passion than his ...
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... heart . Let us now see how Henry was furnished in body and mind , in capacity and moral disposition , for this post in the front and at the head of the community , according to the testimony of those who knew him best and were the best ...
... heart . Let us now see how Henry was furnished in body and mind , in capacity and moral disposition , for this post in the front and at the head of the community , according to the testimony of those who knew him best and were the best ...
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... heart or any thing of coarseness or baseness of nature . It is probable , from all that history and tradition tell us of him , that there was always as much of sentiment as of sensuality in his licen- tiousness . His affection for his ...
... heart or any thing of coarseness or baseness of nature . It is probable , from all that history and tradition tell us of him , that there was always as much of sentiment as of sensuality in his licen- tiousness . His affection for his ...
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... heart , too , was his . Now , however , he offered to resign everything , Alice included : he proposed that she should , in the meantime , be placed in such custody as might be thought fittest , and delivered either to Richard or Philip ...
... heart , too , was his . Now , however , he offered to resign everything , Alice included : he proposed that she should , in the meantime , be placed in such custody as might be thought fittest , and delivered either to Richard or Philip ...
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Page 53 - WITH how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Page 118 - And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Page 54 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Page 52 - Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburn'd brain.
Page 48 - I hope, for the father's sake, it will be pardoned, perchance made much of, though in itself it have deformities. For indeed, for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled. Your dear self can best witness the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence ; the rest by sheets sent unto you as fast as they were done.
Page 137 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 54 - Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king...
Page 62 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me...
Page 45 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Page 22 - O place of bliss! renewer of my woes! Give me account, where is my noble fere? Whom in thy walls thou dost each night enclose; To other lief; but unto me most dear." Echo, alas! that doth my sorrow rue, Returns thereto a hollow sound of plaint. Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine, with bondage and restraint: And with remembrance of the greater grief, To banish the less, I find my chief relief.