Lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Thomas EllwoodJ. R. Osgood, 1877 - 369 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance afterwards ambassador answer asked better betwixt Bridewell brother brought called coming command constable court daughter desired discourse divers Duke Duke of Montmorency Earl Edward Burrough Ellwood enemy father favor France French Friends gave gentleman George Whitehead give Guli hand hath heard honor horse howbeit Isaac Penington journey justice king my master knew lady learning leave lived lodging London Lord Herbert Low Countries majesty manner meeting mind Montgomery Castle morning night occasion Oxfordshire person pleased prince Prince of Condé prison Quakers ready religion returned Rickmansworth ride rode Scarnafigi sent servant side Sir John Ayres soldiers soon Spanish spirit stay sword tell thee thence thereof things thither Thomas THOMAS ELLWOOD Thomas Hicks Thomas Lucy thou thought fit thrust told took town unto Wherefore whereupon wife William William Penn words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 164 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud, though yet gentle noise came from the heavens, (for it was like nothing on earth,) which did so comfort and cheer me, that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign demanded, whereupon also I resolved to print my book.
Seite 54 - A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
Seite 276 - ... such accommodations .as might be most suitable to my future studies. I went, therefore, and took myself a lodging as near to his house (which was then in...
Seite 66 - French cavalier, checked him well for his sauciness, in taking the ribbon away from his grandchild, and afterwards bid him depart his house; and this was all that I ever heard of the gentleman, with whom I proceeded in that manner, because I thought myself obliged thereunto by the oath taken when I was made Knight of the Bath, as I formerly related upon this occasion.
Seite 233 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Seite 326 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found ? " He made me no answer, but sat sonic time in a muse; then brake off that discourse and fell upon another subject.
Seite 274 - Milton, a gentleman of great note for learning throughout the learned world, for the accurate pieces he had written on various subjects and occasions. This person, having filled a public station in the former times, lived now a private and retired life in London, and having wholly lost his sight, kept always a man to read to him, who usually was the son of some gentleman of his acquaintance, whom in kindness he took to improve in his learning.
Seite 325 - Chalfont, a mile from me, of which I gave him notice, and intended to have waited on him, and seen him well settled in it, but was prevented by that imprisonment.
Seite 169 - After I had, with the best attention, read it through, I made him another visit, and returned him his book, with due acknowledgment of the favour he had done me in communicating it to me. He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it ; which I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Seite 71 - Channels through this rock to give it a free passage, dividing the rock by that means into little Islands, upon which he built a great strong Castle, joined together with Bridges, and sumptuously furnished with Hangings of silk and gold, rare Pictures and Statues ; all which Buildings...