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... hath brought toil , Thy toil hath given thee lasting reputation . Joy mixed with grief was thine , bope blent with fear , When victor , thou did'st fear to flight o ' the morrow ; Beaten , wast ready for tomorrow's fight , Thy robes ...
... hath brought toil , Thy toil hath given thee lasting reputation . Joy mixed with grief was thine , bope blent with fear , When victor , thou did'st fear to flight o ' the morrow ; Beaten , wast ready for tomorrow's fight , Thy robes ...
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... hath caused antichronisms in many relations . For how could this Bacon ever be a Reader of Philosophy in Brasen - nose college , founded more than one hundred years after his death ? so that his brasen head , so much spoken of , to ...
... hath caused antichronisms in many relations . For how could this Bacon ever be a Reader of Philosophy in Brasen - nose college , founded more than one hundred years after his death ? so that his brasen head , so much spoken of , to ...
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... hath ratified and made good . . Whence . or how he had this knowledge , can hardly be affirmed ; but sure it is , that he did divine and answer truly of many things to come . SPOTTISWOOD , JOHN , 1639 ? History of the Church and State ...
... hath ratified and made good . . Whence . or how he had this knowledge , can hardly be affirmed ; but sure it is , that he did divine and answer truly of many things to come . SPOTTISWOOD , JOHN , 1639 ? History of the Church and State ...
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... hath been beyond the sea , and hath seen Prester John's country . And he hath been in an Yle that men clepen Burmah , and there bin . women bearded . Now men call him Colonel Henry Yule , and he hath writ of thee in his great booke ...
... hath been beyond the sea , and hath seen Prester John's country . And he hath been in an Yle that men clepen Burmah , and there bin . women bearded . Now men call him Colonel Henry Yule , and he hath writ of thee in his great booke ...
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... hath not so quick a digestion with the earth of Aceldama , to consume flesh in twenty - four hours , yet such the appetite thereof , and all other English graves , to leave small reversions of a body after so many years . But now , such ...
... hath not so quick a digestion with the earth of Aceldama , to consume flesh in twenty - four hours , yet such the appetite thereof , and all other English graves , to leave small reversions of a body after so many years . But now , such ...
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Page 468 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 561 - SHAKESPEARE Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwellingplace, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 552 - This pencil take (she said), whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of Joy; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 480 - I shall despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
Page 7 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book. kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 377 - The generall end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 548 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 522 - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 547 - As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends, fyc.
Page 548 - ... ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...