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... already aspiring to be Protector , if not King , and about to secure the co - operation of the powerful and prominent but foolish 1 Shakespeare , with his knowledge of human nature , but seemingly without any historical or biographical ...
... already aspiring to be Protector , if not King , and about to secure the co - operation of the powerful and prominent but foolish 1 Shakespeare , with his knowledge of human nature , but seemingly without any historical or biographical ...
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... already Protector , was proclaimed King . If the story of the pole - axe and the ducking under the table be true , it , or its sequel , but affords another proof of Lord Stanley's wonderful dexterity and good luck . His friend Hastings ...
... already Protector , was proclaimed King . If the story of the pole - axe and the ducking under the table be true , it , or its sequel , but affords another proof of Lord Stanley's wonderful dexterity and good luck . His friend Hastings ...
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... already communicated by Margaret to Elizabeth Woodville ( then with her children in sanctuary at West- minster ) , through a Welsh physician , who ministered medi- cally to both of them . Edward's widow now welcomed the scheme , and ...
... already communicated by Margaret to Elizabeth Woodville ( then with her children in sanctuary at West- minster ) , through a Welsh physician , who ministered medi- cally to both of them . Edward's widow now welcomed the scheme , and ...
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... already quoted . The Croyland Chronicler is generally con- sidered a trustworthy authority , yet it is almost , though of course not altogether , inconceivable that , knowing of Rich- mond's expedition and the part which he himself was ...
... already quoted . The Croyland Chronicler is generally con- sidered a trustworthy authority , yet it is almost , though of course not altogether , inconceivable that , knowing of Rich- mond's expedition and the part which he himself was ...
الصفحة 37
... . and his Tudor dynasty on the throne , but personal interest and calculation played by far the greatest part in them . It was with the Reformation , already at hand in the time of the first Stanley THE FIRST STANLEY EARL OF DERBY . 37.
... . and his Tudor dynasty on the throne , but personal interest and calculation played by far the greatest part in them . It was with the Reformation , already at hand in the time of the first Stanley THE FIRST STANLEY EARL OF DERBY . 37.
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الصفحة 262 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or...
الصفحة 213 - I believe you have heard, that after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the Box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator 7.
الصفحة 47 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale, And — STANLEY! was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on I'* Were the last words of Marmion.
الصفحة 46 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
الصفحة 46 - Rushed with bare bosom on the spear, And flung the feeble targe aside, And with both hands the broadsword plied, 'Twas vain: — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight.
الصفحة 18 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
الصفحة 468 - ... distribution of the different members of the apparatus into one co-operative body, in impelling each organ with its appropriate delicacy and speed, and above all, in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
الصفحة 217 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
الصفحة 237 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.