The unknown; or, The northern gallery, Volume 1

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Page 121 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 211 - But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger...
Page 121 - Who see'st appall'd th' unreal scene, While Fancy lifts the veil between: Ah Fear ! Ah frantic Fear ! I see, I see thee near. I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye ! Like thee I start, like thee disorder'd fly...
Page 1 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play his part, And mine a sad one.
Page xi - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 205 - Queen were now in pursuit ; it was true, that the length of time which had elapsed since the death of the...
Page 31 - In this parliament passed the famous act, as it was called, of the six articles; which was no sooner published, than it gave an universal alarm to all favourers of the Reformation* ; and, as the bishop of Worcester could not give his vote for the act, he thought it wrong to hold any office in a church, where such terms of communion were required. He therefore resigned his bishopric...
Page 189 - ... summit of Monte Gargano, to fulfill a vow they had made to thee, Archangel Michael. When they saw there a certain man dressed in the Greek fashion, whose name was Melo, they marvelled at the exile's strange garb and at the unfamiliar windings of a turban on his bandaged head. As they gazed upon him they inquired who he was and whence he came. He replied that he was a Lombard by birth and a freeborn citizen of Bari, but had been banished his native soil by the ferocity of the Greeks. As the Gauls...

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