Essays in BiographyConstable, 1913 - 311 sidor |
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... death , sufficiently explain the philosophy of his life . Every man , he held , is weak in his own humours , and a little beyond himself is a fool . The loves of men were for him their afflictions . Titles of honour , he thought , were ...
... death , sufficiently explain the philosophy of his life . Every man , he held , is weak in his own humours , and a little beyond himself is a fool . The loves of men were for him their afflictions . Titles of honour , he thought , were ...
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... death of Elizabeth had died the spirit of austerity and empire which had placed upon her reign the laurel wreath of renown . London was packed with an eager crowd of adventurers , resolved to succeed by the easy paths of flattery and ...
... death of Elizabeth had died the spirit of austerity and empire which had placed upon her reign the laurel wreath of renown . London was packed with an eager crowd of adventurers , resolved to succeed by the easy paths of flattery and ...
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... death , and the State were food for laughter , and he laughed though the shadow of the Tower hung over him . And , if we may believe the voice of adulation , he taught the king and his favourites to think as well as to laugh . He ...
... death , and the State were food for laughter , and he laughed though the shadow of the Tower hung over him . And , if we may believe the voice of adulation , he taught the king and his favourites to think as well as to laugh . He ...
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... death . Such was the woman into whose hands Lady Essex wilfully confided her destiny , and Mistress Turner did not fall below the occasion . Calling in the aid of Simon Forman , whom Antony à Wood calls ' a very able astrologer and ...
... death . Such was the woman into whose hands Lady Essex wilfully confided her destiny , and Mistress Turner did not fall below the occasion . Calling in the aid of Simon Forman , whom Antony à Wood calls ' a very able astrologer and ...
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... death , with many sets of commendatory verses , the best of them from the hand of John Ford , in which poets and Templars conspired to do him honour , is packed with good , sound commonplace . The poet asks of a perfect wife neither ...
... death , with many sets of commendatory verses , the best of them from the hand of John Ford , in which poets and Templars conspired to do him honour , is packed with good , sound commonplace . The poet asks of a perfect wife neither ...
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Sida 307 - ... tis all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard, as in the sands of Egypt: ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.
Sida 72 - A PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE ; or, the Country Parson ; his Character, and Rule of Holy Life.
Sida 290 - Christ's patients on whom he wrought his wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.
Sida 307 - To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate...
Sida 292 - Now, nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature ; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos.
Sida 261 - The Duchess hath been a good comely woman ; but her dress so antick, and her deportment so ordinary, that I do not like her at all, nor did I hear her say anything that was worth hearing, but that she was full of admiration, all admiration.
Sida 252 - Their customs were in winter time to go sometimes to plays, or to ride in their coaches about the streets to see the concourse and recourse of people ; and in the spring time to visit the Spring Garden, Hyde Park, and the like places ; : and sometimes they would have music, and sup in barges upon the water.
Sida 282 - He led me to see all the remarkable places of this ancient city, being one of the largest, and certainly, after -London, one of the noblest of England...
Sida 61 - The hermitage of his study has made him somewhat uncouth in the world, and men make him worse by staring on him. Thus is he [silly and] ridiculous, and it continues with him for some quarter of a year out of the university. But practise him a little in men...
Sida 115 - Cronicle, where moch good matter is quite marde with Indenture Englishe, and first change strange and inkhorne tearmes into proper and commonlie vsed wordes...