Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ... |
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... able out of your mouth , of what colour or length you list , and never any thing seen to be therein ; how to make a book , wherein you shall shew every leaf therein to be white , black , blue , red , yellow , green , & c .; to eat a ...
... able out of your mouth , of what colour or length you list , and never any thing seen to be therein ; how to make a book , wherein you shall shew every leaf therein to be white , black , blue , red , yellow , green , & c .; to eat a ...
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... able for war , when we or our successors shall have occasion to use them ; and in place thereof sets up filthy tiplings and drunkenness , and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their ale - houses : for when shall the ...
... able for war , when we or our successors shall have occasion to use them ; and in place thereof sets up filthy tiplings and drunkenness , and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their ale - houses : for when shall the ...
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... able , which was effected through the King's influ- ence in 1684. As all competition was at an end , the actors were compelled to accept whatever terms the joint - proprietors offered ; which were , the division of the profits into ...
... able , which was effected through the King's influ- ence in 1684. As all competition was at an end , the actors were compelled to accept whatever terms the joint - proprietors offered ; which were , the division of the profits into ...
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... able to induce their hearers to excellent learning , so they be not plucked away green , and ere they be in doctrine sufficiently rooted . But now a days , if to a bachelor or master of arts study of philosophy waxeth tedious , if he ...
... able to induce their hearers to excellent learning , so they be not plucked away green , and ere they be in doctrine sufficiently rooted . But now a days , if to a bachelor or master of arts study of philosophy waxeth tedious , if he ...
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... able for her situation in life and residence in the Wealds . A mercer , named Robert Large , who died in 1441 , received Caxton as an apprentice , employed him after the expiration of his term , and left him a legacy of 34 marks ...
... able for her situation in life and residence in the Wealds . A mercer , named Robert Large , who died in 1441 , received Caxton as an apprentice , employed him after the expiration of his term , and left him a legacy of 34 marks ...
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Page 81 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 162 - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Page 161 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Page 153 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 192 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
Page 30 - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses : for, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon the Sundays and holidays ? Seeing they must apply their labour, and win their living in all working days.
Page 189 - His banished gods restored to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line ; From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome.
Page 153 - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
Page 181 - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
Page 187 - Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So...