London, Volume 4Charles Knight Charles Knight & Company, 1841 - London (England) |
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Page 357 - skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings : but I say it is the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since Now
Page 121 - On poets' tombs see Benson's titles writ ;"— Shakspere's, to which Milton's lines may be applied with peculiar force, even by those who do not quite agree with the poet in holding any monument unnecessary, " Dear Son of Memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ?"— Phillips's, with its profile effigy, and wreath of
Page 350 - one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion. Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two : Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move ; but doth if the other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It
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Page 366 - was in love with him, by counterfayting a letter, as from his lady, in generall termes telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gestures, inscribing his apparaile, &c. ; and then when he came to practise, making him beleeve they tooke him to be mad.
Page 115 - The Irish having robbed Spenser's goods, and burnt his house and a little child new born, he and his wife escaped ; and, after, he died for lake of bread in King Street, and refused twenty pieces sent to him by my Lord of Essex, adding, ' he was sorry he had no time to spend them.
Page 192 - Those who have homes, when home they do repair, To a last lodging call their wandering friends ; Their short uneasy sleeps are broke with care, To look how near their own destruction tends. " Those who have none, sit round where once it was, And with full eyes each wonted room require
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Page 126 - best part for ever to the grave ! How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead ; Through breathing statues, then unheeded things ; Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings,'