Glimpses of Old English Homes

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Macmillan and Company, 1890 - 223 頁
 

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第 13 頁 - 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.
第 78 頁 - And who that had beheld such a bankrupt beggarly fellow as Cromwell first entering the Parliament house with a threadbare, torn cloak, and a greasy hat (and perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected that in the space of so few years he should, by the murder of one king and the banishment of another, ascend the throne...
第 133 頁 - See ! sylvan scenes, where art alone pretends To dress her mistress and disclose her charms — Such as a Pope in miniature has shown, A Bathurst o'er the widening forest spreads, And such as form a Richmond, Chiswick, Stowe.
第 192 頁 - HERE lies the Earl of Suffolk's fool, Men call'd him Dicky Pearce ; His folly served to make folks laugh, When wit and mirth were scarce. Poor Dick, alas ! is dead and gone, What signifies to cry ? Dickies enough are still behind, To laugh at by and by.
第 162 頁 - Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death thro...
第 79 頁 - There be, that tell me, that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart : I pray you use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.
第 122 頁 - lay like lees at the bottom of men's hearts, and if the vessel were ever so little stirred came to the top.
第 93 頁 - Of a tall stature and a sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew ; Ten years of need he suffer'd in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while.
第 29 頁 - Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
第 4 頁 - Ye lofty beeches, tell this matchless dame, That if together ye fed all one flame, It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart...

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