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Page 25
... gave out that the king furnished him with the matter for the pretended recantation , and that he only put it in order . During his retirement , mr . Calderwood collected all the memorials relating to the ecclefiaftical affairs of ...
... gave out that the king furnished him with the matter for the pretended recantation , and that he only put it in order . During his retirement , mr . Calderwood collected all the memorials relating to the ecclefiaftical affairs of ...
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... gave occafion to the fine elegy of this poet , which we have now only in the Latin of Ca- tullus . His common name Battiades has made the gramma- rians ufually affign one Battus for his father ; but perhaps he may as well derive that ...
... gave occafion to the fine elegy of this poet , which we have now only in the Latin of Ca- tullus . His common name Battiades has made the gramma- rians ufually affign one Battus for his father ; but perhaps he may as well derive that ...
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... gave them the flip again , and directed his courfe towards Rome ; but he happened upon his elder bro ther , who was at Turin about bufinefs , and was brought back a fecond time to Nancy . But his paffion for fecing Rome being ftill as ...
... gave them the flip again , and directed his courfe towards Rome ; but he happened upon his elder bro ther , who was at Turin about bufinefs , and was brought back a fecond time to Nancy . But his paffion for fecing Rome being ftill as ...
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... gave the utmost re- " putation to his art , of which it is capable , and attained , " if ever any did , to its fublimity ; and beyond which it " feems not poffible for human industry to reach , especially " for figures in little ...
... gave the utmost re- " putation to his art , of which it is capable , and attained , " if ever any did , to its fublimity ; and beyond which it " feems not poffible for human industry to reach , especially " for figures in little ...
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... gave that province the name of Maryland , in honour of his queen Henrietta Maria . The firft colony fent thither confifted of about two hundred people , Roman - catholicks , the chief of whom were gentle- men of good families . Since ...
... gave that province the name of Maryland , in honour of his queen Henrietta Maria . The firft colony fent thither confifted of about two hundred people , Roman - catholicks , the chief of whom were gentle- men of good families . Since ...
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Popular passages
Page 445 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 371 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 172 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 81 - O Pallas ! thou hast fail'd thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword : I warn'd thee, but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far, Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war ! O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come...
Page 410 - I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Page 173 - Chaucer's side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled ; so that what there was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal.
Page 171 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Page 488 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 172 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Page 83 - He was a great cherisher of wit and fancy and good parts in any man; and, if he found them clouded with poverty or want, a most liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even above his fortune...