The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most Distinguished Persons that Have Been Born In, Or Connected With, Those ProvincesWhittaker and Company; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company; John Cross, Leeds; Bancks and Company Manchester; Grapel, Liverpool., 1836 - 732 sider |
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Side 21
... means lavish in granting the public money . Charles the second was continually in need : his extra- vagance and indolence prevented him from taking advantage of their niggardly servility , that would have preferred a cheap slavery to an ...
... means lavish in granting the public money . Charles the second was continually in need : his extra- vagance and indolence prevented him from taking advantage of their niggardly servility , that would have preferred a cheap slavery to an ...
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... means to shield a man whom he could not help revering . " On the 29th of November , 1667 , this illustrious exile embarked in a miserable boat in the middle of the night , at Erith , and after remaining at sea amidst the inconveniences ...
... means to shield a man whom he could not help revering . " On the 29th of November , 1667 , this illustrious exile embarked in a miserable boat in the middle of the night , at Erith , and after remaining at sea amidst the inconveniences ...
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... means of determining whether Marvell's correspon- dence with the Borough was actually discontinued during these years , whether the papers have been carelessly lost , or , which is most probable , purposely destroyed . For when we ...
... means of determining whether Marvell's correspon- dence with the Borough was actually discontinued during these years , whether the papers have been carelessly lost , or , which is most probable , purposely destroyed . For when we ...
Side 53
... means prevented the offer , or I had been in dan- ger of being reimbursed with it . I received the bill which was sent me on Mr. Nelehorpe ; but the surplus of it exceeding much the expense I have been at on this occasion , I desire you ...
... means prevented the offer , or I had been in dan- ger of being reimbursed with it . I received the bill which was sent me on Mr. Nelehorpe ; but the surplus of it exceeding much the expense I have been at on this occasion , I desire you ...
Side 59
... means likely that the term became immediately familiar . Marvell was more likely to have borrowed a broad piece . Borrowing of a book- seller is an expedient very likely to occur to an author of later days ; but Andrew Marvell never was ...
... means likely that the term became immediately familiar . Marvell was more likely to have borrowed a broad piece . Borrowing of a book- seller is an expedient very likely to occur to an author of later days ; but Andrew Marvell never was ...
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Side 269 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Side 690 - I been depos'd, if you had reign'd! The father had descended for the son, For only you are lineal to the throne. Thus when the state one Edward did depose, A greater Edward in his room arose. But now, not I, but poetry is curs'd, For Tom the Second reigns like Tom the First. But let 'em not mistake my patron's part, Nor call his charity their own desert. Yet this I prophesy: thou shalt be seen (Tho...
Side 62 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.
Side 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Side 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Side 313 - I must do it, as it were in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened ; yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Side 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance...
Side 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Side 90 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Side 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.