Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumen1Estes and Lauriat, 1882 |
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... Charles , who was Lord of the Manor formerly , and the parson , who was presented by him to the living , tried to bully the vestry , did not we knock their heads to- gether , and go to meeting to hear Jeremiah Ringletub preach ? And did ...
... Charles , who was Lord of the Manor formerly , and the parson , who was presented by him to the living , tried to bully the vestry , did not we knock their heads to- gether , and go to meeting to hear Jeremiah Ringletub preach ? And did ...
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... Charles , to whom we have before alluded . Others are of opin- 1on that he was a legitimate son of old Lady Magna Charta , although he was long concealed and kept out of his birthright . Certain it is that he was a very benevolent ...
... Charles , to whom we have before alluded . Others are of opin- 1on that he was a legitimate son of old Lady Magna Charta , although he was long concealed and kept out of his birthright . Certain it is that he was a very benevolent ...
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... Charles accept it ? Did he not declare it to be law ? Was it not as fully enacted as ever were any of those bills of the Long Parlia ment concerning which you spoke ? And were those privi leges therefore enjoyed more fully by the people ...
... Charles accept it ? Did he not declare it to be law ? Was it not as fully enacted as ever were any of those bills of the Long Parlia ment concerning which you spoke ? And were those privi leges therefore enjoyed more fully by the people ...
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... Charles was a ruler after the Italian fashion ; grave , demure , of a solemn carriage , and a sober diet ; as constant at prayers as a priest , as heedless of oaths as an atheist . " Mr. Cowley answered somewhat sharply : " I am sorry ...
... Charles was a ruler after the Italian fashion ; grave , demure , of a solemn carriage , and a sober diet ; as constant at prayers as a priest , as heedless of oaths as an atheist . " Mr. Cowley answered somewhat sharply : " I am sorry ...
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... Charles in particular , I will not now undertake to defend it . Death is inflicted , not that the cul- prit may die , but that the State may be thereby advantaged . And , from all that I know , I think that the death of King Charles ...
... Charles in particular , I will not now undertake to defend it . Death is inflicted , not that the cul- prit may die , but that the State may be thereby advantaged . And , from all that I know , I think that the death of King Charles ...
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Página 613 - We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance of domestic ties. Accordingly...
Página 567 - I walked to a neighbouring town, and sat down upon a settle in the street, and fell into a very deep pause about the most fearful state my sin had brought me to ; and after long musing, I lifted up my head, but methought I saw as if the sun that shineth in the heavens did grudge to give me light, and as if the very stones in the street, and tiles upon the houses, did bend themselves against me...
Página 188 - They had far more both of profound and of polite learning than the Puritans. Their manners were more engaging, their tempers more amiable, their tastes more elegant, and their households more cheerful.
Página 529 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Página 160 - I should much commend the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes ; whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language, ipsa mollities.
Página 160 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 261 - But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Página 189 - In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union. From the Parliament and from the Court, from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundheads, and from the Christmas revel of the hospitable Cavalier, his nature selected and drew to itself whatever was great and good, while it rejected all the base and pernicious ingredients by which those finer elements were defiled. Like the Puritans, he lived "As ever...
Página 239 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, 'why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 532 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.