Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year ..., Volume 4; Volume 16Society, 1864 - Cheshire (England) Pedigrees and arms of various families of Lancashire and Cheshire are included in many of the volumes. |
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... heart , must " such language have been to those whom the feudal lord " regarded as less valuable than his war - horse and as little " better than his chattels ! Although the time had not arrived " when the foot , in touching the English ...
... heart , must " such language have been to those whom the feudal lord " regarded as less valuable than his war - horse and as little " better than his chattels ! Although the time had not arrived " when the foot , in touching the English ...
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... heart and voice opprest ; I know not , oh ! I know not What social joys are there ; What radiancy of glory , What light beyond compare ! " It is related of Archbishop Anselm , when Abbot of Bec , that the Monastery was often in want of ...
... heart and voice opprest ; I know not , oh ! I know not What social joys are there ; What radiancy of glory , What light beyond compare ! " It is related of Archbishop Anselm , when Abbot of Bec , that the Monastery was often in want of ...
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... heart would prompt me , at any time , not only to embrace an opportunity for honouring the memory of Shakspeare , but to seek for it ; yet I should have shrunk from the present prominence and publicity , had I not " felt that the ...
... heart would prompt me , at any time , not only to embrace an opportunity for honouring the memory of Shakspeare , but to seek for it ; yet I should have shrunk from the present prominence and publicity , had I not " felt that the ...
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... hearts of admiring millions . The language of his writings is surrounded by just such a halo as gives interest to the expressions , and attracts increased attention to the thoughts . The latter are like books in quaint bindings or like ...
... hearts of admiring millions . The language of his writings is surrounded by just such a halo as gives interest to the expressions , and attracts increased attention to the thoughts . The latter are like books in quaint bindings or like ...
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... hearts of kings , It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's , When mercy seasons justice . It is said that Shakspeare falsified history , and we are ready to admit that the impressions which he ...
... hearts of kings , It is an attribute to God himself ; And earthly power doth then show likest God's , When mercy seasons justice . It is said that Shakspeare falsified history , and we are ready to admit that the impressions which he ...
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Page 149 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 31 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 142 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 149 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 195 - As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Page 159 - Why, man, they did make love to this employment; They are not near my conscience ; their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow : Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites.
Page 157 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 153 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 160 - I'll rant as well as thou. Queen This is mere madness: And thus a while the fit will work on him; Anon, as patient as the female dove, When that her golden couplets are disclos'd, His silence will sit drooping.
Page 149 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...