A Book of BachelorsA. Constable and Company, 1899 - 449 sider |
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... mind cannot brook contempt ; and which is more ungentlemanly , nay barbarous and inhuman , pulled by the ears , lashed over the face , beaten about the head with the great end of the rod , smitten upon the lips for every slight offence ...
... mind cannot brook contempt ; and which is more ungentlemanly , nay barbarous and inhuman , pulled by the ears , lashed over the face , beaten about the head with the great end of the rod , smitten upon the lips for every slight offence ...
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... mind in sufficiently forcible , yet by no means too forcible language , anent the instructors , or as he deemed them the destructors , of the youth of his day , Peacham next turns his attention to the ordinary folly of parents and ...
... mind in sufficiently forcible , yet by no means too forcible language , anent the instructors , or as he deemed them the destructors , of the youth of his day , Peacham next turns his attention to the ordinary folly of parents and ...
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... mind with plaintive music . Many better - known poets have become famous for worse poems than this , and some of them are remembered , while Peacham is almost forgotten . But our bard was no weeping philosopher like Hera- clitus of old ...
... mind with plaintive music . Many better - known poets have become famous for worse poems than this , and some of them are remembered , while Peacham is almost forgotten . But our bard was no weeping philosopher like Hera- clitus of old ...
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... mind was fully occupied with the great scenes and the habits of the peoples through which he passed with his companions . That he was a delightful instructor to them goes without saying , and he would pour out of his own full mind ...
... mind was fully occupied with the great scenes and the habits of the peoples through which he passed with his companions . That he was a delightful instructor to them goes without saying , and he would pour out of his own full mind ...
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... mind . Here he had seen , amongst other curiosities , geographical playing- cards , " the four suits changed into maps of several countries of the four parts of the world , and exactly coloured for their numbers ; the figures , 1 , 2 ...
... mind . Here he had seen , amongst other curiosities , geographical playing- cards , " the four suits changed into maps of several countries of the four parts of the world , and exactly coloured for their numbers ; the figures , 1 , 2 ...
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Abbot able ABRAHAM COWLEY admiration amongst Anatomy Anatomy of Melancholy Andrew Boorde Andrewes appear archbishop Arminian asserts bishop Boorde Boorde's Breviary Burton cause Church Compleat Gentleman Coryate Coryate's Countess Court Cowley Cowley's critic Crown 8vo Crudities death Democritus doth doubt Earl edition England English favour Fuller hath Henry Peacham Henry Smith Heylin honour humour Husbands Bosworth Idem ibidem interest James journey kind King King's Latin Laud learned Leicestershire less letter lived London Lord marriage matter means melancholy Memb ment mind nature never Odcombe once Overbury Overbury's Oxford passed patron Peacham physician poems poet preacher Prince prison Puritan reader Reliquiæ Robert Burton Rochester scholar Scioppius Sect sent sermons Sir Thomas Overbury soul spite style Subsect suffered Thomas Thomas Fuller thought tion took traveller true truth Venice wise woman words Wotton
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Side 235 - The very Honey of all earthly joy Does of all meats the soonest cloy, And they (methinks) deserve my pity, Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings 10 Of this great hive, the city. Ah, yet, ere I descend to th...
Side 376 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Side 235 - I descend to the grave May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too!
Side 388 - With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest; The groves already did rejoice, In Philomel's triumphing voice, The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled.
Side 236 - tis the way too thither. How happy here should I, And one dear She, live, and embracing die ! She, who is all the world, and can exclude In deserts solitude. I should have then this only fear — Lest men, when they my pleasures see, Should hither throng to live like me, And so make a city here.
Side 386 - Nor ruin make oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend.
Side 205 - In a true piece of Wit all things must be, Yet all things there agree. As in the Ark, joyn'd without force or strife, All Creatures dwelt; all Creatures that had Life.
Side 209 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there. For I remember when I began to read, and to take some pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's...
Side 386 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Side 205 - Great Cowley then (a mighty genius) wrote, O'errun with wit, and lavish of his thought: His turns too closely on the reader press; He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less. One glittering thought no sooner strikes our eyes With silent wonder, but new wonders rise.