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... Charles I. was on a visit here , Jeffrey Hudson , the dwarf of Oakham , was served up to table in a cold pie . The park contains 1085 acres . The terrace is 300 yards long , and 12 broad . The front of the house , exclusive of the ...
... Charles I. was on a visit here , Jeffrey Hudson , the dwarf of Oakham , was served up to table in a cold pie . The park contains 1085 acres . The terrace is 300 yards long , and 12 broad . The front of the house , exclusive of the ...
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... Charles V. when the substitution of the pre- sent bearing took place ; which alter- ation was adopted by our Henry IV . in lieu of the quartering of an- tient France , borne from the period of Edward the Third's assumption thereof . In ...
... Charles V. when the substitution of the pre- sent bearing took place ; which alter- ation was adopted by our Henry IV . in lieu of the quartering of an- tient France , borne from the period of Edward the Third's assumption thereof . In ...
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... Charles the Second abounded in false wit , and an extravagant fondness for smart and sprightly turns , epigrams , and profligacy of allusion , as we are informed by Shaftesbury - who , him- self a polite author , wrote when this ...
... Charles the Second abounded in false wit , and an extravagant fondness for smart and sprightly turns , epigrams , and profligacy of allusion , as we are informed by Shaftesbury - who , him- self a polite author , wrote when this ...
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... Charles II . with the Apo- thegmes of the preceding æra , it was necessary to explain why , dur- ing the Usurpation , specimens of this department of literature are not to be found . Yet there is a work to be included in the antient ...
... Charles II . with the Apo- thegmes of the preceding æra , it was necessary to explain why , dur- ing the Usurpation , specimens of this department of literature are not to be found . Yet there is a work to be included in the antient ...
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... Charles I. It was sur- rendered , August 19 , 1646 , on ho- nourable terms , which were basely violated , and the Marquis himself seized , and committed to custody in London , where he died in the same year , and was interred at Windsor ...
... Charles I. It was sur- rendered , August 19 , 1646 , on ho- nourable terms , which were basely violated , and the Marquis himself seized , and committed to custody in London , where he died in the same year , and was interred at Windsor ...
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Page 465 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law...
Page 69 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High Have told, why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Page 69 - How came the world's gray fathers forth To watch thy sacred sign ! And when its yellow lustre smiled O'er mountains yet untrod, Each mother held aloft her child To bless the bow of God.
Page 68 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I dreamt of gems and gold Hid in thy radiant bow ? When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws...
Page 69 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or, mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem. As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span • Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 336 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave.
Page 353 - ... to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.
Page 72 - I continue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country : and I have the satisfaction of believing, that the differences which had unfortunately arisen between the court of St.
Page 209 - Shakespeare was godfather to one of Ben Jonson's children, and, after the christening, being in a deep study, Jonson came to cheer him up, and asked him why he was so melancholy. ' No faith, Ben,' says he, ' not I, but I have been considering a great while what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my godchild, and I have resolved at last.' ' I prythee, what ? ' says he. ' I* faith, Ben, I'll e'en give him a dozen good Latin (latten) spoons, and thou shalt translate them.
Page 337 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart. Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.