The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies...C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... appears to have happened when her son was a boy , marrying a London shearman , or cloth - shearer . The date of his birth is not recorded , but it was probably about the year 1490 . Of his other relations we only know that he had a ...
... appears to have happened when her son was a boy , marrying a London shearman , or cloth - shearer . The date of his birth is not recorded , but it was probably about the year 1490 . Of his other relations we only know that he had a ...
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... appear to have received what can be called a learned education ; but it is admitted that , besides the more ordinary branches , he was taught a little Latin at school ; and this may give additional probability to what has been said ...
... appear to have received what can be called a learned education ; but it is admitted that , besides the more ordinary branches , he was taught a little Latin at school ; and this may give additional probability to what has been said ...
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... appears to have been mainly to his owu abilities , and his mounting or restless spirit , that he owed his rise from obscurity . The story that is told of his early life is , shortly , that , impatient of confinement within the bounds of ...
... appears to have been mainly to his owu abilities , and his mounting or restless spirit , that he owed his rise from obscurity . The story that is told of his early life is , shortly , that , impatient of confinement within the bounds of ...
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... appears to have been on the whole conscientious , at least in so far as regarded the ends he had in view , although not always very particular as to his means . But the latter characteristic belongs more or less to all the more aspiring ...
... appears to have been on the whole conscientious , at least in so far as regarded the ends he had in view , although not always very particular as to his means . But the latter characteristic belongs more or less to all the more aspiring ...
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... appear . As , by a certain poor woman keeping some time a victualling house about Hounslow , to whom the said Lord Cromwell remained in debt for certain old reckonings to the sum of forty shillings . It happened that the Lord Cromwell ...
... appear . As , by a certain poor woman keeping some time a victualling house about Hounslow , to whom the said Lord Cromwell remained in debt for certain old reckonings to the sum of forty shillings . It happened that the Lord Cromwell ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 68 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Seite 75 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Seite 151 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 64 - I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine her wits to entertain; Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain.
Seite 35 - With silver drops the meads yet spread for ruth ; In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies praise ; Recording soft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.
Seite 57 - And he, according to the fertileness of the Italian wit, did not only afford us the demonstration of his practice, but sought to enrich our minds with the contemplations therein, which he thought most precious.
Seite 130 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...
Seite 65 - Because I oft in dark abstracted guise Seem most alone in greatest company, With dearth of words, or answers quite awry, To them that would make speech of speech arise ; They deem, and of their doom the rumour flies, That poison foul of bubbling Pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise ; Yet Pride, I think, doth not my Soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflattering...
Seite 163 - I speak unto you that which I have in charge, even from all those that are here present, which is this : — ' In the name of God and of his Son Jesus Christ, and in the name of all that presently call you by my mouth, I charge you that you refuse not this holy vocation...
Seite 65 - Great expectation, wear a train of shame. For since mad March great promise made of me, If now the May of my years much decline, What can be hoped my harvest time will be? Sure you say well, your wisdom's golden mine Dig deep with learning's spade, now tell me this, Hath this world aught so fair as Stella is?