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... given to John Mainwaring , 353 Brushlin Brook , near Staley , 109 Bruen , Calvin , a Chester Ironmonger , 280 , 447 ... meets Prynne at Tarvin , 280 ........... John , of Bruen Stapleford , 279 ...... portrait of , 279 plate [ 447 ...
... given to John Mainwaring , 353 Brushlin Brook , near Staley , 109 Bruen , Calvin , a Chester Ironmonger , 280 , 447 ... meets Prynne at Tarvin , 280 ........... John , of Bruen Stapleford , 279 ...... portrait of , 279 plate [ 447 ...
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... given the cue to other students and labourers in the local Antiquarian field , as to the infinity of Historic material lying almost untouched in the Parish Chests of the city and county . He has pointed out - from the example of ST ...
... given the cue to other students and labourers in the local Antiquarian field , as to the infinity of Historic material lying almost untouched in the Parish Chests of the city and county . He has pointed out - from the example of ST ...
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... given in the accompanying plate , in which is delineated with tolerable accuracy the linear arrangement of the tesselæ . Since the delivery of of the lecture , another fragment of pavement of similar kind and execution has been found on ...
... given in the accompanying plate , in which is delineated with tolerable accuracy the linear arrangement of the tesselæ . Since the delivery of of the lecture , another fragment of pavement of similar kind and execution has been found on ...
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... given . Hemingway ( History of Chester , vol . 1 , p . 340 , ) quotes from a MS . appended to a drawing of the gate representing four arches : - " The Roman Gate at Chester was 16 feet high , the breadth nine and thirty feet . This gate ...
... given . Hemingway ( History of Chester , vol . 1 , p . 340 , ) quotes from a MS . appended to a drawing of the gate representing four arches : - " The Roman Gate at Chester was 16 feet high , the breadth nine and thirty feet . This gate ...
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... given by this latter author is inaccurate in several other respects . In Wilson's work ( in the explanation of the plate of the hypocaust at p . 23 ) , occurs this passage , " The floor on which the burning embers lay is uneven ; while ...
... given by this latter author is inaccurate in several other respects . In Wilson's work ( in the explanation of the plate of the hypocaust at p . 23 ) , occurs this passage , " The floor on which the burning embers lay is uneven ; while ...
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Page 202 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
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Page 126 - All murder'd— for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and, humour'd thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!
Page 224 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 221 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea. but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ' Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery. then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is that word. honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? he that died o
Page 201 - Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work ; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 224 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Page 123 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 198 - To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.