The Scottish Historical Review, Volume 6Edinburgh University Press for the Scottish Historical Review Trust, 1909 A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886. |
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... grace and pure beauty of such poems as Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Comus , of the sublimity of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes , we are at a loss to understand how the same hand could have written such things as the replies to ...
... grace and pure beauty of such poems as Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Comus , of the sublimity of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes , we are at a loss to understand how the same hand could have written such things as the replies to ...
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... grace and piety of Edward , he [ Wishart ] was consecrated under the Pope's dispensation . For the sake of example I do not hesitate to insert here what befel him later when he applied himself to his cure . Indeed , it is an evil far ...
... grace and piety of Edward , he [ Wishart ] was consecrated under the Pope's dispensation . For the sake of example I do not hesitate to insert here what befel him later when he applied himself to his cure . Indeed , it is an evil far ...
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... grace of humour and its deeper power by a quaint phrase of parallel to make an abstraction suddenly concrete . A general audience being obviously in view , the lecturer has sought rather to sketch popularly the literary , legal and ...
... grace of humour and its deeper power by a quaint phrase of parallel to make an abstraction suddenly concrete . A general audience being obviously in view , the lecturer has sought rather to sketch popularly the literary , legal and ...
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... Grace did more , interposes Lord Derby , ' you leapt a greater leap from Scotland's gates to wear our English crown . ' The ballad ends amicably , and with boasts of the agility and vigour of the English peerage . The tables are turned ...
... Grace did more , interposes Lord Derby , ' you leapt a greater leap from Scotland's gates to wear our English crown . ' The ballad ends amicably , and with boasts of the agility and vigour of the English peerage . The tables are turned ...
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... grace ' : its native kennel was Geneva , but colonies of these monsters had been established in Holland and Scotland.2 ( Occasionally Dryden seems to echo some of Cleveland's lines , but times had changed since 1644 , and in spite of ...
... grace ' : its native kennel was Geneva , but colonies of these monsters had been established in Holland and Scotland.2 ( Occasionally Dryden seems to echo some of Cleveland's lines , but times had changed since 1644 , and in spite of ...
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Page 415 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Page 128 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Page 168 - ... it should be lawful for every man to favour and follow what religion he would, and that he might do the best he could to bring other to his opinion ; so that he did it peaceably, gently, quietly, and soberly, without hasty and contentious rebuking and inveighing against other.
Page 437 - The indictment ought to charge a conspiracy, either to do an unlawful act, or a lawful act by unlawful means.
Page 217 - Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air?
Page 331 - God has conceded two sights to a man — One, of men's whole work, time's completed plan, The other, of the minute's work, man's first Step to the plan's completeness...
Page 113 - These bountiful beginnings raise all men's spirits, and put them in great hopes, insomuch that not only Protestants, but Papists, and Puritans, and the very poets, with their idle pamphlets, promise themselves great part in his favour, so that to satisfy or please all, hie labor, hoc opus est, and would be more than a man's work.
Page 33 - His Majesties Plantations beyond the Seas are inhabited and peopled by His Subjects of this His Kingdome of England, For the maintaining a greater correspondence and kindnesse...
Page 162 - Why wife, quoth her husband, what would you do ? What ? By God, go forward with the best. For as my mother was wont to say (God have mercy on her soul), it is evermore better to rule than to be ruled. And therefore, by God, I would not, I warrant you, be so foolish to be ruled where I might rule.
Page 170 - Roper," quoth he, and in commending all degrees and estates of the same went far beyond me. "And yet, Son Roper, I pray God," said he, "that some of us, as high as we seem to sit upon the mountains, treading heretics under our feet like ants, live not the day that we gladly would wish to be at a league and composition with them to let them have their churches quietly to themselves, so that they would be content to let us have ours quietly to ourselves.