Nugæ Antiquæ: Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Original Papers in Prose and Verse: Written in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Mary, Elizabeth, King James, &c, Band 1

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T. Cadell, 1792
 

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Seite 105 - and once above the rest being talking of it, of the com" modiousness of the place, of the strength of the seat, " and how easily it might be got from the bishopric; " suddenly, over and over came his horse, that his very " face, which was then thought a very good face, ploughed " up the earth where he fell. This fall was ominous, I " make no question," says he, " as the like was observed in
Seite 104 - ... he beftowed fince in Sherborne (in building, and buying out leafes, and in drawing the river through rocks into his garden) he might, very juftly, and without offence of either Church or State, have compafled a much better purchafe.
Seite 132 - Devill's making, when two old folks marry not for comfort, but for covetoufnefs, and fuch they faid was this. The conclufion to the premifles was this, that to...
Seite 52 - My father, only for carrying of a letter to the lady Elizabeth, and professing to wish her well, he kept in the Tower twelve months, and made him spend a thousand pounds ere he could be free of that trouble. My mother, that then served the said...
Seite 96 - Knight of good wor* fhip, though now they living afunder, he may be thought to have had no great comfort of that matrimony, yet to her daughter he means to leave a great patrimony...
Seite 187 - But when he had spoken awhile of some sacred and mystical numbers, as three for the Trinity, three times three for the heavenly hierarchy, seven for the Sabbath, and seven times seven for a jubilee ; and lastly — I do not deliver it so handsomely as he did — seven times nine for the grand climacterical year, she, perceiving whereto he tended, began to be troubled.
Seite 221 - ... gave him thanks for his very learned Sermon. Yet when she had better considered the matter, and recollected herselfe in private, she sent two Councellours to him with a sharp message, to which he was glad to give a patient answer. But in this time that the Lords and Knights of Parliament and others were full of this Sermon, a greate...
Seite 71 - For he was indeed a reverend man, very well learned, exceeding industrious -, and, which was in those days counted a great praise to him, and a chief cause of his preferment, he wrote that great dictionary that yet bears his name. His life in Oxford was very commendable, and in some sort saint-like ; for, if it is...
Seite 131 - ... girl only twenty years old. The Earl of Bedford, being present when these tales were told, said merrily to the queen, after his dry manner, "Madam, I know not how much the woman is above twenty, but I know a son of hers who is little under forty.
Seite 73 - (Sir John Harrington tells us,) in reverence of the man, « and indignity of the matter, offered to separate her from « him by public authority, and so to set him free, being ' the innocent party : But he would by no means agree ' thereto, alledging he knew his own infirmity, that he « might not live unmarried ; and to divorce and marry « again, he would not charge his conduct with so great « a scandal,' And bishop Godwin speaks of him in a very emphatical strain.

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