Homes and Haunts of the Wise and Good, Or Visits to Remarkable Places in English History and LiteratureJ.W. Bradley, 1860 - 384 páginas |
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... lived out of England nearly thirty years . It is impossible also not to sympathise with our first printer when he concludes with this gentle appeal to our sympa- thies : - " Thus , " he says , " end I this booke , and for as moche as in ...
... lived out of England nearly thirty years . It is impossible also not to sympathise with our first printer when he concludes with this gentle appeal to our sympa- thies : - " Thus , " he says , " end I this booke , and for as moche as in ...
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... lived , but it may have stood upon the site or have been altered from the original structure . The Roxburghe Club did themselves much honor when they erected a monument to this hero of letters , in the church where he lies buried , St ...
... lived , but it may have stood upon the site or have been altered from the original structure . The Roxburghe Club did themselves much honor when they erected a monument to this hero of letters , in the church where he lies buried , St ...
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... lived long before his time , is deeply interesting . That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself : " Sweet swan of Avon , what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear , And make those flights upon the banks of ...
... lived long before his time , is deeply interesting . That he was estimated highly we know from Jonson himself : " Sweet swan of Avon , what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear , And make those flights upon the banks of ...
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... lived there many years during the time he was in London . It is that portion of Southwark lying on the river side between the bridges of Blackfriars and Southwark This ground was then wholly devoted to public amusements , such as they ...
... lived there many years during the time he was in London . It is that portion of Southwark lying on the river side between the bridges of Blackfriars and Southwark This ground was then wholly devoted to public amusements , such as they ...
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... lived . It is true , the Tower , Westminster Pal- ace , and some other of those public buildings and old lo- calities where the scenes of his national dramas are laid , still remain , spite of time and change ; and the sites of others ...
... lived . It is true , the Tower , Westminster Pal- ace , and some other of those public buildings and old lo- calities where the scenes of his national dramas are laid , still remain , spite of time and change ; and the sites of others ...
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Abney Park Admiral Adonis Andrew Marvel Barley Wood beautiful Bedford beneath blessed Buckinghamshire Bunhill Fields called Caxton character Charles Chiltern Hills Christian church cottage Cromwell David Garrick death died Divine duty Elstow England English eyes faith father fear Garrick gates genius glory grace grave green hand Hannah heart heaven hill holy honor imprisonment interest Isaac Watts John Bunyan John Hampden King labors lady liberty lived London looked Lord Marvel memory mind monument moral mother never noble once Parliament passed patriot persecution persons Pilgrim's Progress poem poet poor preach prison Quakers residence says scene seemed Shakspeare Shakspeare's sisters Songs spirit spot stood Stratford-on-Avon tell thou thought tinker tion told tomb town trees truth venerable Venus and Adonis village Watts Westminster wife William Caxton William Penn woman words Wrington young youth
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Página 111 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Página 40 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 89 - By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear, To hearken if his foes pursue him still ; Anon their loud alarums he doth hear; And now his grief may be compared well To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell.
Página 168 - I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I should have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants, that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all beside. Oh ! the thoughts of the hardship I thought my poor blind one might go under, would break my heart to pieces.
Página 42 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 136 - This woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both; yet this she had for her part — The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven and The Practice of Piety, which her father had left her when he died.
Página 213 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Página 43 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 169 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Página 159 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing 5 was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.