Representative Biographies of English Men of LettersCharles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey Macmillan Company, 1909 - 642 páginas |
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... afterwards Earl of Leicester , sent me word that Sir John Ayres intended to kill me in my bed , and wished me keep a guard upon my chamber and person ; the same advertise- ment was confirmed by Lucy , Countess of Bedford , and the Lady ...
... afterwards Earl of Leicester , sent me word that Sir John Ayres intended to kill me in my bed , and wished me keep a guard upon my chamber and person ; the same advertise- ment was confirmed by Lucy , Countess of Bedford , and the Lady ...
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... afterwards Lord of Falkland , and Lord Deputy of Ireland , find- ing the dagger thus in my body , snatched it out . This while I , being closed with Sir John Ayres , hurt him on the head , and threw him down a third time , when kneeling ...
... afterwards Lord of Falkland , and Lord Deputy of Ireland , find- ing the dagger thus in my body , snatched it out . This while I , being closed with Sir John Ayres , hurt him on the head , and threw him down a third time , when kneeling ...
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... afterwards command both him and me to appear before them ; but I absenting myself on purpose , sent one Humphrey Hill with a challenge to him in an ordinary , which he refusing to receive , Humphrey Hill put it upon the point of his ...
... afterwards command both him and me to appear before them ; but I absenting myself on purpose , sent one Humphrey Hill with a challenge to him in an ordinary , which he refusing to receive , Humphrey Hill put it upon the point of his ...
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... afterwards . For the rest , that I might content myself with what I had done , it being more almost than could be believed , but that I had so many witnesses thereof ; for all which reasons he com- manded me , in the name of his Majesty ...
... afterwards . For the rest , that I might content myself with what I had done , it being more almost than could be believed , but that I had so many witnesses thereof ; for all which reasons he com- manded me , in the name of his Majesty ...
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... afterwards before Brouncker , in the afternoon , that he did tell the King that he thought I might match the Solicitor - General . Every body that saw me almost came to me , as Joseph William- son and others , with such eulogys as ...
... afterwards before Brouncker , in the afternoon , that he did tell the King that he thought I might match the Solicitor - General . Every body that saw me almost came to me , as Joseph William- son and others , with such eulogys as ...
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Página 595 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 65 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 72 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 437 - No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 55 - ... study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 225 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Página 355 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Página 307 - But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending Virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Página 204 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 476 - Lamb (Charles) Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1823.