Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and ChesterChetham Society., 1873 - Cheshire (England) |
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Page 171 - Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere Sf.
Page 221 - Of the Progresse of the Soule. Wherein, by occasion of the Religious death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the incommodities of the Soule in this life, and her exaltation in the next, are contemplated.
Page 104 - Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle expounded in two Elegies. 1. Of Humane Knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man, and the immortalitie thereof.
Page 64 - Pleasures are not if they last, In their passing is their best. Glory is most bright and gay In a flash, and so away. Feed apace then, greedy eyes, On the wonder you behold. Take it sudden as it flies, Though you take it not to hold: When your eyes have done their part, Thought must length it in the heart.
Page 225 - tis none of mine. Yet send me back my heart and eyes, That I may know, and see thy lies, And may laugh and joy, when thou Art in anguish And dost languish For some one That will none, Or prove as false as thou art now.
Page 134 - Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London, being the 15. of March, 1603.
Page 184 - Thais painted sheet embrace, And with the fume of strong Tobacco's smoke, All quaffing round are ready for to choke ! , Let them that list these pastimes then pursue, And on their pleasing Fancies feed their fill ; So I the Fields and Meadows green may view, And by the Rivers fresh may...
Page 171 - Dekker His Dreame: in which beeing rapt with a Poeticall Enthusiasme, the great volumes of Heaven and Hell to him were opened, in which he read many wonderfull Things.
Page 128 - Viewing this light, which shines more bright then doth the Noon-day Sun. Straightway appears (they see't with tears) the Son of God most dread; Who with his Train comes on amain To Judge both Quick and Dead.
Page 188 - I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.