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... Charles V. at Brussels ; how he received him , and what he said ; of his being entrapped by his confessor , and cast into prison for fifteen months , escaping and being let down by a rope over the city wall , until he found repose and ...
... Charles V. at Brussels ; how he received him , and what he said ; of his being entrapped by his confessor , and cast into prison for fifteen months , escaping and being let down by a rope over the city wall , until he found repose and ...
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... Charles V. at Brussels ; how he received him , and what he said ; of his being entrapped by his confessor , and cast into prison for fifteen months , escaping and being let down by a rope over the city wall , until he found repose and ...
... Charles V. at Brussels ; how he received him , and what he said ; of his being entrapped by his confessor , and cast into prison for fifteen months , escaping and being let down by a rope over the city wall , until he found repose and ...
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... CHARLES KNIGHT . Serius Seriadesque ( Vol . iii . , p . 494 . ) .— Il Serio , a tributary to the Adda , which falls into the Po . Il Serio is , like the Po , remarkable for the quan- tity of foam floating upon it , and also for disap ...
... CHARLES KNIGHT . Serius Seriadesque ( Vol . iii . , p . 494 . ) .— Il Serio , a tributary to the Adda , which falls into the Po . Il Serio is , like the Po , remarkable for the quan- tity of foam floating upon it , and also for disap ...
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... Charles VI . ) that this castle belonged to John , Bishop of Winchester . If he is right in the Christian name , he must mean had belonged , not appartenoit , for the John Bishops that I find in Britton's list are : John of Oxon John de ...
... Charles VI . ) that this castle belonged to John , Bishop of Winchester . If he is right in the Christian name , he must mean had belonged , not appartenoit , for the John Bishops that I find in Britton's list are : John of Oxon John de ...
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... Charles II.'s Drooping Standards ; and adding insulte to oppression , com- manded the domesticks of the Duke of Buckingham to follow their master's desperate fortune , and to carry him five shillings , which he might want in his exile ...
... Charles II.'s Drooping Standards ; and adding insulte to oppression , com- manded the domesticks of the Duke of Buckingham to follow their master's desperate fortune , and to carry him five shillings , which he might want in his exile ...
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Page 10 - His silence will sit drooping. Ham. Hear you, sir; What is the reason that you use me thus? I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter; Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.
Page 159 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 137 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 10 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 196 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Page 10 - Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Page 173 - Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven :O come in, equivocator.
Page 146 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 195 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Page 11 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...