The History of Christ's Hospital: From Its Foundation by King Edward the Sixth. To which are Added Memoirs of Eminent Men Educated There; and a List of the Governors |
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... letter , in which was the fol- lowing passage : " Notices of this kind are gene- rally supposed to originate with the object of them ; and as presumed proofs ( however falsely ) of vanity and forwardness , they often , I believe , do ...
... letter , in which was the fol- lowing passage : " Notices of this kind are gene- rally supposed to originate with the object of them ; and as presumed proofs ( however falsely ) of vanity and forwardness , they often , I believe , do ...
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... letters and instructions when he sent him to be bred in France . In one of his let- ters to him he writ , That he must not think to live like an ambassador , but like a private gentle- man , who was to be advanced as he deserved it . He ...
... letters and instructions when he sent him to be bred in France . In one of his let- ters to him he writ , That he must not think to live like an ambassador , but like a private gentle- man , who was to be advanced as he deserved it . He ...
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... letters and printed books , they com- monly name him our Josias . Others call him Ed- ward the Saint . A prince of such qualities , so much esteemed and beloved , could not but be much lamented at his death ; and this made those of the ...
... letters and printed books , they com- monly name him our Josias . Others call him Ed- ward the Saint . A prince of such qualities , so much esteemed and beloved , could not but be much lamented at his death ; and this made those of the ...
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... letter which he sent about to his clergy , to set them on to such duties as so bad a prospect required . " " His excellent disposition , his piety and zeal in the Protestant cause , together with his boundless charities , have rendered ...
... letter which he sent about to his clergy , to set them on to such duties as so bad a prospect required . " " His excellent disposition , his piety and zeal in the Protestant cause , together with his boundless charities , have rendered ...
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... letters to returning officers , recommending the persons to be chosen at a general election . Yet such a measure did young Edward's ministers not only propose , but engaged him to adopt . After a general exhortation to the.people to ...
... letters to returning officers , recommending the persons to be chosen at a general election . Yet such a measure did young Edward's ministers not only propose , but engaged him to adopt . After a general exhortation to the.people to ...
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Page 232 - In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.
Page 214 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue...
Page 238 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Page 238 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed, And her together.
Page 241 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending.
Page 227 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute: And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 227 - At a very premature age, even before my fifteenth year, I had bewildered myself in metaphysics, and in theological controversy. Nothing else pleased me. History, and particular facts, lost all interest in my mind.
Page 240 - Lear is not in corporeal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches. It is his mind which is laid bare. This case of flesh and blood seems too insignificant to be thought on ; even as he himself neglects it. On the stage we see nothing but corporeal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear —...
Page 231 - He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in such extracts as I then read), Terence, and, above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the...
Page 4 - Lord, thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee; yet for thy chosen's sake send me life and health, that I may truly serve thee. O my Lord God, bless thy people, and save thine inheritance ! O Lord God, save thy chosen people of England ! O my Lord God, defend this realm from papistry, and maintain thy true religion, that I and my people may praise thy holy name, for thy son Jesus Christ's sake...