Bygone Cheshire

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Phillipson & Golder, 1895 - 253 Seiten
 

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Seite 241 - Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb ; The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Seite 208 - God bless the master of this house, and the mistress also, And all the little children that round the table go...
Seite 149 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still, The better angel is a man right fair: The worser spirit a woman coloured ill. To win me soon to hell my female evil, Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil: Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Seite 222 - It was said that, on the very day of that great humiliation, the King feasted with the ladies of his seraglio, and amused himself with hunting a moth about the supper room.
Seite 215 - Gentlemen, if you are met here as private persons, you shall not be disturbed ; but, if as a Council of State, this is no place for you. And since you cannot but know what was done at the house this morning, so take notice that the parliament is dissolved.
Seite 149 - That tongue that tells the story of thy days , Making lascivious comments on thy sport, Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise; Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
Seite 149 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell ; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell : Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Seite 152 - Fitton led ; and after they had done all their own ceremonies, these eight lady masquers chose eight ladies more to dance the measures. Mrs Fitton went to the queen, and wooed her to dance. Her majesty asked what she was. ' Affection,' she said. ' Affection !' said the queen,
Seite 145 - Pembroke in the latter years of Elizabeth's reign was out of favour, and it has been conjectured that suspicion attached to his complicity with, or at least privity to, Essex's rebellion; but Mr. Thomas Tyler has found out another reason. Tobie Matthew writes to Dudley Carleton, March 25th, 1601, that " the Earl of Pembroke is committed to the Fleet: his cause is delivered of a boy who is dead.

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