Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton CollegeR. Bentley, 1850 - 504 páginas |
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... Italy , and communi- cated some acquaintance with their language ; but it was almost unknown in the Western kingdoms . Latin , from being the language of the Church , had never ceased to be studied ; but it was more the Latin of the ...
... Italy , and communi- cated some acquaintance with their language ; but it was almost unknown in the Western kingdoms . Latin , from being the language of the Church , had never ceased to be studied ; but it was more the Latin of the ...
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... Italian universities to obtain opinions from them in favour of the divorce . On Croke's return to England he received ... Italy to Henry the Eighth on the subject of the divorce may be seen in Burnet's History of the Reformation , where ...
... Italian universities to obtain opinions from them in favour of the divorce . On Croke's return to England he received ... Italy to Henry the Eighth on the subject of the divorce may be seen in Burnet's History of the Reformation , where ...
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... Italy can testify , Fraunce can bear witness , Beame ( Bohemia ) can tell , Scotlande may write , Denmark can shewe , and especially this noble realme of Englande can apparently declare and make demonstration . " His character of our ...
... Italy can testify , Fraunce can bear witness , Beame ( Bohemia ) can tell , Scotlande may write , Denmark can shewe , and especially this noble realme of Englande can apparently declare and make demonstration . " His character of our ...
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... Italy , and offered him 5007. a - year ; but Oughtred declined it on account of his religion . Oughtred did indeed pass through the troubles of these times without actual molestation , though not without some hazard . In 1646 he was in ...
... Italy , and offered him 5007. a - year ; but Oughtred declined it on account of his religion . Oughtred did indeed pass through the troubles of these times without actual molestation , though not without some hazard . In 1646 he was in ...
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... Italy , Germany , and the Low Countries ; and on his return , in 1596 , he was chosen as Secretary to Queen Elizabeth's favourite the Earl of Essex . the fall of Essex , Wotton fearing to be implicated in the ruin of his patron , fled ...
... Italy , Germany , and the Low Countries ; and on his return , in 1596 , he was chosen as Secretary to Queen Elizabeth's favourite the Earl of Essex . the fall of Essex , Wotton fearing to be implicated in the ruin of his patron , fled ...
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Página 490 - That light whose smile kindles the universe, That beauty in which all things work and move, That benediction which the eclipsing curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which, through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Página 489 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.— Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!
Página 239 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies: that it was indeed a very curious show; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand...
Página 316 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 313 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
Página 247 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country.
Página 250 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me ; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy.
Página 308 - That every labouring sinew strains. Those in the deeper vitals rage : Lo Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, Th
Página 497 - The sun is warm, the sky is clear, The waves are dancing fast and bright, Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might, The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself, is soft like Solitude's.
Página 449 - ... it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to...