Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 246
By him lay heavy Sleepe , the cosin of Death , Flat on the ground , and still as any stone , A very corps , save yielding forth a breath : Small keepe took hee whom Fortune frowned on , Or whom shee lifted up into the throne Of high ...
By him lay heavy Sleepe , the cosin of Death , Flat on the ground , and still as any stone , A very corps , save yielding forth a breath : Small keepe took hee whom Fortune frowned on , Or whom shee lifted up into the throne Of high ...
Page 383
The five following extracts are from the Essays : a Of Death . Men fear death , as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other .
The five following extracts are from the Essays : a Of Death . Men fear death , as children fear to go in the dark : and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales , so is the other .
Page 429
Why , do we grow fantastical in our death - bed ? Do we affect fashion in the grave ? Bos . Most ambitiously . Princes ' images on their tombs do not lie as they were wont , seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under ...
Why , do we grow fantastical in our death - bed ? Do we affect fashion in the grave ? Bos . Most ambitiously . Princes ' images on their tombs do not lie as they were wont , seeming to pray up to heaven ; but with their hands under ...
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 Chamber's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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