Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, 第 1 卷E. Stock, 1884 - 396 頁 |
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Admiral afterwards amongst appears appointed Arundell of Trerice Baron Bath became Bishop Bishop of Exeter Bligh Borlase Boscawen Breage brother buried Captain Carew Carminow Castle Church command connexion Cornish Cornishmen daughter Davies Gilbert Davy's death descended died Duke Dunstanville Earl Edward Elizabeth England estates Evelyn Exeter Falmouth father fleet Foote Foote's Francis Basset French Grenville guns Hals Helston Henry Henry VIII honour Illogan illustrious interest John Anstis John Arundell King Knight Lady Lanherne letter lived London Lord Ludgvan marriage married Menadarva occasion Oxford Parliament Pellew Penzance Pope portrait Prior Park Queen Ralph Allen Richard Royal sail Samuel Foote says Scilly seems Sheriff of Cornwall ships Sidney Godolphin siege Sir Francis Sir Humphry Sir John Arundell Sir William Tehidy tion Tolverne took Tregothnan Truro Viscount whilst wife William Borlase writing
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第 vii 頁 - LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEgat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies: leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
第 vii 頁 - Rich men furnished with ability, Living peaceably in their habitations: All these were honoured in their generations, And were the glory of their times...
第 vii 頁 - For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers '(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
第 ix 頁 - As for nobility in particular persons; it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber-tree sound and perfect: how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time.
第 291 頁 - Again ! again ! again ! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane To our cheering sent us back Their shots along the deep slowly boom : Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shattered sail, Or in conflagration pale Light the gloom.
第 275 頁 - I say his prose writings — for who that has read his sublime quatrains on the doctrine of Spinoza can doubt that he might have united, if he had pleased, in some great didactic poem, the vigorous ratiocination of Dryden and the moral majesty of Wordsworth ? I remember William Laidlaw whispering to me, one night, when their
第 271 頁 - This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions...
第 273 頁 - So passed the winter's day; but still, When summer smiled on sweet Bowhill, And July's eve, with balmy breath, Waved the blue-bells on Newark heath, When throstles sung in Harehead-shaw, And corn was green on Carterhaugh, And flourished, broad, Blackandro's oak, The aged harper's soul awoke...
第 11 頁 - ... what the world calls civility and regard. He is sincerer and plainer than almost any man now in this world, antiquis moribus. If the waters of the Bath may be serviceable to your complaints (as I believe from what you have told me of them), no opportunity can ever be better. It is just the best season.
第 273 頁 - But the most picturesque figure was the illustrious inventor of the safety-lamp. He had come for his favourite sport of angling, and had been practising it successfully with Rose, his travelling companion, for two or three days preceding this ; but he had not prepared for coursing fields, or had left Charlie Purdie's troop for Sir Walter's on a sudden thought, and his fisherman's costume — a brown hat with flexible...