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... March 1663 , there is an hiatus in his correspondence , occasioned by an absence of Andrew's that has never been satisfactorily accounted for . In his letters he speaks of his private concernments without specifying what those private ...
... March 1663 , there is an hiatus in his correspondence , occasioned by an absence of Andrew's that has never been satisfactorily accounted for . In his letters he speaks of his private concernments without specifying what those private ...
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... March 7 , 1668 : - " On Wednesday last the House resumed the debate occasioned by the informations of several members concerning the insolencies of Nonconformists in some parts of the nation , disturb- ing ministers in their churches ...
... March 7 , 1668 : - " On Wednesday last the House resumed the debate occasioned by the informations of several members concerning the insolencies of Nonconformists in some parts of the nation , disturb- ing ministers in their churches ...
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... March : - " That which is most extraordinary is , that his Majesty hath for this whole week come every day in person to the House of Lords , and sat there during their debates and resolutions ; and yester- day the Lords went in a body ...
... March : - " That which is most extraordinary is , that his Majesty hath for this whole week come every day in person to the House of Lords , and sat there during their debates and resolutions ; and yester- day the Lords went in a body ...
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... March and the 22nd of April , 1671 ; for it mentions the Duchess of York's death , ( Ann Hyde's , ) which took place March 31 , and speaks of Parliament as still sitting , which , on the 22nd of April was pro- rogued . The King ...
... March and the 22nd of April , 1671 ; for it mentions the Duchess of York's death , ( Ann Hyde's , ) which took place March 31 , and speaks of Parliament as still sitting , which , on the 22nd of April was pro- rogued . The King ...
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... March , the cause came to a hearing before the Privy Council , who determined that they could not advise the King to interfere in the matter , but that the Bishop was at liberty to act according to his own discretion . As soon as this ...
... March , the cause came to a hearing before the Privy Council , who determined that they could not advise the King to interfere in the matter , but that the Bishop was at liberty to act according to his own discretion . As soon as this ...
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Page 343 - me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else beside learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus
Page 102 - finally postponed till too late, for Kuster never lived to complete it Methinks the shade of the lexicographer might arise and say, with the Miltonic Satan:— " What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be?" Kuster engaged in an edition of
Page 319 - neglected by a court, but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shan't stand. Anne Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery." This letter was first published in the periodical called "The World," in 1753. The paper in which it appears is imputed to Horace Walpole, 2o who has introduced Lady Anne
Page 299 - 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." Her governess was Mistress Taylor; her tutor, that excellent man— "the well
Page 62 - his were not the deepest scar ; And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art: When twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chace To Carisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, While round the armed bands, Did clap their
Page 299 - once, for I am afraid that some one of my readers may not have a copy of Wordsworth's poems in his pocket, or even on his parlour window. Written in London, 1802. "O friend, I know not which way I must look For comfort, being
Page 469 - spell has power; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity.
Page 272 - Even at this sight My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine It shall be stony. York not our old men spares, No more will I their babes: tears virginal . Shall be to me even as the dew to fire; And beauty that the tyrant
Page 62 - And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits