Tixall Letters: Or, The Correspondence of the Aston Family, and Their Friends, During the Seventeenth Century, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 |
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Pagina 21 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Pagina 6 - EPITAPH. ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE. UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother : Death, ere thou hast slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Pagina 39 - Before the battle begun, he was carried through all the ranks of his army in an open litter, as they stood drawn up in array, encouraging them to fight valiantly in defence of their religion and country. Finding afterwards the battle to go against him, though he was very near his last agonies, he threw himself out of his litter, rallied his army, and led them on to the charge ; which afterwards ended in a complete victory on the side of the Moors.
Pagina 39 - ... people in case he should die before he put an end to that war, he commanded his principal officers, that, if he died during the engagement, they should conceal his death from the army, and that they should ride up to the litter in which his corpse was carried, under pretence of receiving orders from him as usual.
Pagina 100 - Il n'ya point d'endroit, point de lieu , ni dans la maison, ni dans l'église, ni dans le pays, ni dans le jardin, où je ne vous aie vue; il n'y en a point qui ne me fasse souvenir de quelque chose...
Pagina 23 - The great deliverer he ! who from the gloom Of cloister'd monks, and jargon-teaching schools, Led forth the true Philosophy, there long Held in the magic chain of words and forms And definitions void...
Pagina 38 - Morocco, in order to dethrone him, and set his crown upon the head of his nephew, Moluc was wearing away with a distemper which he himself knew was incurable. However, he prepared for the reception of so formidable an enemy. He was indeed so far spent with his sickness, that he did not expect to live out the whole day when the last decisive...
Pagina 23 - Thine is a Bacon ; hapless in his choice, Unfit to stand the civil storm of state, And through the smooth barbarity of courts, With firm, but pliant virtue, forward still To urge his course : him for the studious shade Kind Nature form'd, deep, comprehensive, clear, Exact, and elegant ; in one rich soul, Plato, the Stagyrite, and Tully join'd.
Pagina 5 - He was not only a great favourer of learned and ingenious men, but was himself learned, and endowed to admiration with a poetical geny, as by those amorous and not inelegant aires and poems of his composition doth evidently appear; some of which had musical notes set to them by Hen.
Pagina 100 - ... je vous vois, vous m'êtes présente ; je pense et repense à tout ; ma tête et mon esprit se creusent : mais j'ai beau tourner, j'ai beau chercher; cette chère enfant que j'aime avec tant de passion est à deux cents lieues de moi , je ne l'ai plus.