A Book of English Prose, Character and Incident 1387-1649Methuen and Company, 1905 - 395 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... less has it been our purpose to collect within two covers any such purple patches of diction as the taste and fashion of the past have marked out for admiration . Our bias is neither philological nor fantastical . Beyond the essential ...
... less has it been our purpose to collect within two covers any such purple patches of diction as the taste and fashion of the past have marked out for admiration . Our bias is neither philological nor fantastical . Beyond the essential ...
Σελίδα 2
... less Irishmen be cunning in two manner of instruments of music , in the harp and timbre that is armed with wire and with strings of brass . In the which instruments they play hastily and swiftly ; they make well merry harmony and melody ...
... less Irishmen be cunning in two manner of instruments of music , in the harp and timbre that is armed with wire and with strings of brass . In the which instruments they play hastily and swiftly ; they make well merry harmony and melody ...
Σελίδα 9
... less price , after the diversity of his statutes . And when that money has run so long that it beginneth to waste , then men bear it to the Emperor's treasury , and then they take new money for the old . And that money goeth throughout ...
... less price , after the diversity of his statutes . And when that money has run so long that it beginneth to waste , then men bear it to the Emperor's treasury , and then they take new money for the old . And that money goeth throughout ...
Σελίδα 34
... less noise the more is my worship . ' Then the Queen and her ladies went down unto the knight Sir Launcelot , that stood wroth out of measure in the inner court , to abide battle ; and ever he bade Thou traitor knight , come forth ...
... less noise the more is my worship . ' Then the Queen and her ladies went down unto the knight Sir Launcelot , that stood wroth out of measure in the inner court , to abide battle ; and ever he bade Thou traitor knight , come forth ...
Σελίδα 37
... less , by marriage and adjoining of other blood , it took some increasement . For in her tender age , she being endued with so great towardness of nature , and likelihood of inheritance , many sued to have had her to marriage . The Duke ...
... less , by marriage and adjoining of other blood , it took some increasement . For in her tender age , she being endued with so great towardness of nature , and likelihood of inheritance , many sued to have had her to marriage . The Duke ...
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Σελίδα 343 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature...
Σελίδα 343 - ... on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. "Sufflaminandus erat," as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so, too! Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,...
Σελίδα 11 - JC Cox and A. Harvey. Second Edition. ENGLISH COSTUME. From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. George Clinch. ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE. Abbot Gasquet. Fourth Edition. ENGLISH SEALS. J. Harvey Bloom. FOLK-LORE AS AN HISTORICAL SCIENCE. Sir GL Gomme. GiLDS AND COMPANIES OF LONDON, THE. George Unwin. •HERMITS AND ANCHORITES OF ENGLAND.
Σελίδα 362 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Σελίδα 361 - The adversary again applauds, and waits the hour. When they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time.
Σελίδα 362 - ... the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.
Σελίδα 174 - ... commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship; that thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards, seeing in so many hours' fight and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours...
Σελίδα 174 - ... as she could never be removed out of the place. And as the matter was thus in dispute, and Sir Richard refusing to hearken to any of those reasons; the master of the Revenge (while the Captain won unto him the greater party) was convoyed aboard the General Don Alfonso Bassan.
Σελίδα 171 - Philip being in the wind of him, and coming towards him, becalmed his sails in such sort, as the ship could neither make way, nor feel the helm: so huge and high carged was the Spanish ship, being of a thousand and five hundred tons; who after laid the Revenge aboard.
Σελίδα 3 - A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG: English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. BARING-GOULD and HF SHEPPARD. Demy 4/0. 6s. SONGS OF THE WEST: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall. Collected from the Mouths of the People. ByS. BARING-GOULD, MA,and H.