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... Prince in Canterbury Cathedral : a sense of wonderful history written silently in books and buildings , all persuading that we are heirs of more spiritual wealth than , may be , we have surmised or hitherto begun to divine . 6 With this ...
... Prince in Canterbury Cathedral : a sense of wonderful history written silently in books and buildings , all persuading that we are heirs of more spiritual wealth than , may be , we have surmised or hitherto begun to divine . 6 With this ...
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... prince Dauid his sonne , and that whan he were of age , they shulde obey hym and crowne hym kyng , and to mary hym in suche a place as was conuenient for his estate . Than he called to hym the gentle knyght sir William Duglas , & sayde ...
... prince Dauid his sonne , and that whan he were of age , they shulde obey hym and crowne hym kyng , and to mary hym in suche a place as was conuenient for his estate . Than he called to hym the gentle knyght sir William Duglas , & sayde ...
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... prince sent a messanger to the kynge , who was on a lytell wyndmyll hyll . Than the knyght sayd to the kyng , Sir , th'erle of Warwyke , and th'erle of Canfort , sir Reynolde Cobham , and other suche as be about the prince your sonne ar ...
... prince sent a messanger to the kynge , who was on a lytell wyndmyll hyll . Than the knyght sayd to the kyng , Sir , th'erle of Warwyke , and th'erle of Canfort , sir Reynolde Cobham , and other suche as be about the prince your sonne ar ...
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... prince , and enbrased hym in his armes and kyst hym , and sayde Fayre sonne , God gyue you good perseuerance , ye ar my good son , thus ye haue aquyted you nobly : ye ar worthy to kepe a realme . 30 Froissart's Chronicles The Burghers ...
... prince , and enbrased hym in his armes and kyst hym , and sayde Fayre sonne , God gyue you good perseuerance , ye ar my good son , thus ye haue aquyted you nobly : ye ar worthy to kepe a realme . 30 Froissart's Chronicles The Burghers ...
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... prince , for him selfe , nor for his children , or geve a cup of drink to the pore . Thus al the enhansyng and rearing goth to your private commodity and welth . So that where ye had a single to much , you have that : and sins the same ...
... prince , for him selfe , nor for his children , or geve a cup of drink to the pore . Thus al the enhansyng and rearing goth to your private commodity and welth . So that where ye had a single to much , you have that : and sins the same ...
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Sida 952 - I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill to him that can get it.
Sida 413 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant,
Sida 286 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Sida 164 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Sida 322 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand...
Sida 467 - Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Sida 163 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...
Sida 224 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.
Sida 212 - O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.
Sida 357 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.