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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... . cated to the Duke of Clarence , was the first. It was at Westminster that the printing - press was first used in England ; and the Game and Play of Chess , dedi CAXTON'S MONUMENT , WESTMINSTER . 2 WILLIAM CAXTON . 13.
... . cated to the Duke of Clarence , was the first. It was at Westminster that the printing - press was first used in England ; and the Game and Play of Chess , dedi CAXTON'S MONUMENT , WESTMINSTER . 2 WILLIAM CAXTON . 13.
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... , most W.C of which were composed or translated by himself . About 1492 he died ; and was buried at Campden , in Gloucester , according to some accounts , but according to others ,. CAXTON'S MONUMENT , WESTMINSTER . 14 WILLIAM CAXTON .
... , most W.C of which were composed or translated by himself . About 1492 he died ; and was buried at Campden , in Gloucester , according to some accounts , but according to others ,. CAXTON'S MONUMENT , WESTMINSTER . 14 WILLIAM CAXTON .
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... monument ( see p . 14 ) has been erected to his memory at the latter place . The inscription is as follows : TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM CAXTON , WHO FIRST INTRODUCED INTO GREAT BRITAIN THE ART OF PRINTING , AND WHO , A. D. 1477 , OR ...
... monument ( see p . 14 ) has been erected to his memory at the latter place . The inscription is as follows : TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM CAXTON , WHO FIRST INTRODUCED INTO GREAT BRITAIN THE ART OF PRINTING , AND WHO , A. D. 1477 , OR ...
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... monument to this hero of letters , in the church where he lies buried , St. Margaret's , Westminster . But England has not yet discharged its duty to its great citizen - its mighty benefactor : surely it is high time that a monument ...
... monument to this hero of letters , in the church where he lies buried , St. Margaret's , Westminster . But England has not yet discharged its duty to its great citizen - its mighty benefactor : surely it is high time that a monument ...
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... monuments . It is approached by an avenue , about thirty rods in length , of lime trees , which have been bent , clipped , and trained , until they form a perfect arch , with a green and rustling but well - defined roof , about three ...
... monuments . It is approached by an avenue , about thirty rods in length , of lime trees , which have been bent , clipped , and trained , until they form a perfect arch , with a green and rustling but well - defined roof , about three ...
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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.