 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...  The Scottish Historical Review - Page 1281909Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 368 pages
...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. LITURGY. 1. THERE is no church without a liturgy, nor indeed can there be conveniently, as... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - 426 pages
...the air, you shall see by that which way the wind blows, which you will not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels t." The royalist conspiracy, which, from the poet of this name being its chief promoter, is... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - 398 pages
...the air, you shall see by that which way the wind blows, which you will not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels t." The royalist conspiracy, which, from the poet of this name being its chief promoter, is... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...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.— Selden. 296. Equality.— It is one of the most important objects of government, to prevent... | |
 | English poetry - 1839 - 374 pages
...into the air, you may see hy that which way the wind is, which you shall not do hy casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Lihels. SELDLN'S TASLE-TALE. I. RICHARD OF ALMAIGNE. " A SALLAD made hy one of the adherents to Simon... | |
 | 1840 - 522 pages
...produce of the human imagination, are found in immediate contact with the sternest reality. Seiden observes, ' More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.' It is said that the old touching ballad of ' Ay de mi Л1 hama' was forbidden to be sung in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...the air, you shall sec 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. Devils in the Jft'ad. A person of quality came to my chamber in the Temple, and told me he... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. ant to steal, And what a fund of charity would fail ! Thus Heaven ins balladt and Illicit."— TaUt Talk. [5 See It in Percy's Rcliquet, and in Wright's Political Soiigi... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...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. CHILLINGWORTH. (1002-1644.) [WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH is chiefly famous as a controversial writer.... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 444 pages
...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."* Of the political satires just alluded to, some of the most conspicuous may be found in the... | |
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