Lives of Northern Worthies: Lady Anne Clifford. Roger Ascham. John Fisher. The Rev. William Mason. Sir Richard ArkwrightE. Moxon, 1852 - Lancashire (England) |
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... excellent melody , the earth as it were opening , there appeared a pavilion made of white taffeta , containing eight score ells , being a proportion like unto the sacred temple of the Virgins Vestal . This temple seemed to consist upon ...
... excellent melody , the earth as it were opening , there appeared a pavilion made of white taffeta , containing eight score ells , being a proportion like unto the sacred temple of the Virgins Vestal . This temple seemed to consist upon ...
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... excellent man " the well - languaged Daniel . " The disagreements of her parents , and the embar- rassed condition of the family estates , obliged her education to be conducted on the strictest principles of frugality ; but luckily the ...
... excellent man " the well - languaged Daniel . " The disagreements of her parents , and the embar- rassed condition of the family estates , obliged her education to be conducted on the strictest principles of frugality ; but luckily the ...
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... excellent poet and histo- rian , who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth . She was daughter and heir to George , Earl of Cumberland , who in gratitude to him erected this monument to his memory a long time after , when she ...
... excellent poet and histo- rian , who was Tutor to the Lady Anne Clifford in her youth . She was daughter and heir to George , Earl of Cumberland , who in gratitude to him erected this monument to his memory a long time after , when she ...
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... excellent vein of pure English , with many deep political reflections , and some few passages of considerable pathos : but his epistles , sonnets , and moral pieces , if they contain not much high poetry , have a calm wisdom , a beauty ...
... excellent vein of pure English , with many deep political reflections , and some few passages of considerable pathos : but his epistles , sonnets , and moral pieces , if they contain not much high poetry , have a calm wisdom , a beauty ...
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... excellent medicines . All Senekae's works translated out of Latine into English . The Holy Bible , the old and new Testaments . " * " On the 14th of March , 1617 , the King took upon himself the awarding of a long difference betwixt the ...
... excellent medicines . All Senekae's works translated out of Latine into English . The Holy Bible , the old and new Testaments . " * " On the 14th of March , 1617 , the King took upon himself the awarding of a long difference betwixt the ...
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Page 119 - ... else ; I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly, as 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 mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 48 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Page 49 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Page 118 - I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 36 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 342 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Page 384 - Which by the thinking Mind have been compelled To serve the Will of feeble-bodied Man. For with the sense of admiration blends The animating hope that time may come When strengthened, yet not dazzled, by the might Of this dominion over Nature gained, Men of all lands shall exercise the same In due proportion to their Country's need; Learning, though late, that all true glory rests, All praise, all safety, and all happiness, Upon the Moral law.
Page 75 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 80 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Page 114 - Amongst all the benefits that God hath blessed me withal, next the knowledge of Christ's true religion, I count this the greatest, that it pleased God to call me to be one poor minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning...