The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote, a coll. by W. Oxberry, Том 1William Oxberry 1822 |
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... present work of Goethe ; but , prior to all these writers , Faustus has figured in the puppet - shows of either country ; indeed , like the tales of Jack the Giant Killer , Fortunatus , and other similar worthies , it is , and has long ...
... present work of Goethe ; but , prior to all these writers , Faustus has figured in the puppet - shows of either country ; indeed , like the tales of Jack the Giant Killer , Fortunatus , and other similar worthies , it is , and has long ...
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... present ; his eyes are perpetually and intently fixed on the future , and he treats the medical art as a mere quackery , a disease more destruc- tive than even the plague- " I myself have given the poison to thousands : they withered ...
... present ; his eyes are perpetually and intently fixed on the future , and he treats the medical art as a mere quackery , a disease more destruc- tive than even the plague- " I myself have given the poison to thousands : they withered ...
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... present hour in all their meet- ings , when they thought it requisite to eat , drink , and smoke , for the benfit of their neighbours . On the outside of this iron implement is pourtrayed the Boar's Head Tavern , be- fore the door of ...
... present hour in all their meet- ings , when they thought it requisite to eat , drink , and smoke , for the benfit of their neighbours . On the outside of this iron implement is pourtrayed the Boar's Head Tavern , be- fore the door of ...
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... present hall erected . A little to the west of Vintners - hall , Thames- street , lived John Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester , Lord High Treasurer . In Thames - street , also , lived Lord Hastings , beheaded by Richard III . Edward the ...
... present hall erected . A little to the west of Vintners - hall , Thames- street , lived John Tiptoft , Earl of Worcester , Lord High Treasurer . In Thames - street , also , lived Lord Hastings , beheaded by Richard III . Edward the ...
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... present Exeter ' Change stands , formerly stood Burleigh or Exeter House , where lived and died the great Statesman , Lord Burleigh ; and close by , in Exeter- street , lived the " unfortunate " Earl of Essex . * William , Earl of ...
... present Exeter ' Change stands , formerly stood Burleigh or Exeter House , where lived and died the great Statesman , Lord Burleigh ; and close by , in Exeter- street , lived the " unfortunate " Earl of Essex . * William , Earl of ...
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Страница 111 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Страница 43 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Страница 287 - Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Страница 101 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Страница 168 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Страница 47 - Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Страница 58 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister : and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Страница 78 - The person who told me her story had seen her at a masquerade. There can be no exhibition of fargone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely and joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woebegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.
Страница 77 - ... lamented the stern policy that dictated his execution. But there was one heart, whose anguish it would be impossible to describe. In happier days and fairer fortunes, he had won the affections of a beautiful and interesting girl, the daughter of a late celebrated Irish barrister. She loved him with the disinterested fervour of a woman's first and early love.
Страница 286 - Zounds, sir, you are robb'd ; for shame, put on your gown ; Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul ; Even now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.