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... Court . King James , naturally favouring a scion of the house of Kerr , was quite captivated by his handsome appearance and elegant bearing . In 1607 he was knighted . Three years thereafter he was created Viscount Rochester , and ...
... Court . King James , naturally favouring a scion of the house of Kerr , was quite captivated by his handsome appearance and elegant bearing . In 1607 he was knighted . Three years thereafter he was created Viscount Rochester , and ...
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... Court conversation ; and their genius seemed so much alike , that it was reasonable to suppose no breach could ever be produced between them . " This fair friendship was withered and changed into hate by the fierce breath of passion ...
... Court conversation ; and their genius seemed so much alike , that it was reasonable to suppose no breach could ever be produced between them . " This fair friendship was withered and changed into hate by the fierce breath of passion ...
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... Court of Charles I. The King appointed him Tutor and Chaplain to Prince Charles , to whose fortune he adhered through all its vicissitudes . On the outbreak of the civil war , in 1642 , he retired to his living of Bishopstown ; but when ...
... Court of Charles I. The King appointed him Tutor and Chaplain to Prince Charles , to whose fortune he adhered through all its vicissitudes . On the outbreak of the civil war , in 1642 , he retired to his living of Bishopstown ; but when ...
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... Court , statesmen in Parliament , fine gentlemen in coffee - houses , fine ladies in drawing- It brought him a shower of popular plaudits , but left him as poor as before . There is a story told rooms . - that Charles wrote with his own ...
... Court , statesmen in Parliament , fine gentlemen in coffee - houses , fine ladies in drawing- It brought him a shower of popular plaudits , but left him as poor as before . There is a story told rooms . - that Charles wrote with his own ...
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... Court Man , A Mere Scholar , An Intruder into Favour , A Roaring Boy , A Distaster of the Time , A Jesuit , A Covetous Man , A Usurer , A Prison , A Prisoner , A Jailer , A Child , · EARLE . A Young Man , A Young Gentleman of the ...
... Court Man , A Mere Scholar , An Intruder into Favour , A Roaring Boy , A Distaster of the Time , A Jesuit , A Covetous Man , A Usurer , A Prison , A Prisoner , A Jailer , A Child , · EARLE . A Young Man , A Young Gentleman of the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance actions admirable bagpipes believes better body brain calls cheat church clothes comes commended commonly conscience court creditors cries curses dare devil discourse drink drunk ears enemy esteems face fall false fashion fear fellow fool fortune friends gentleman give goes gray wolf hanging hates hath hear heaven HENRY ALLON heraldry honest honour humour idle ignorance Inns of Court Jesuit judgment justice of peace kind knows labour laugh learning lives looks loves man's matter means melan men's Menippus mountebank nature ness never occasion opinion poet post and pair profession Puritan quarrel reason religion scholar seldom sermon serve shew soever soul speaks St David's day St George's cross stands strange talk tell things thinks thought tiltyard tion tongue truth turn Tyburn understand vices virtue wear Westminster Hall wind words worse
Passagens conhecidas
Página 54 - ... business. His father hath writ him as his own little story, wherein he reads those days of his life that he cannot remember ; and sighs to see what in'nocence he has out-lived. The elder he grows, he is a stair lower from God ; and like his first father much worse in his breeches.
Página 23 - ... knowledge. The lining of her apparel, which is herself, is far better than outsides of tissue; for though she be not arrayed in the spoil of the silkworm, she is decked in innocence, a far better wearing.
Página 53 - A CHILD Is a man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam before he tasted of Eve or the apple ; and he is happy, whose small practice in the world can only write his character.
Página 53 - ... mischief of being wise, nor endures evils to come by foreseeing them. He kisses and loves all, and, when the smart of the rod is past, smiles on his beater. Nature and his parents alike dandle him, and tice him on with a bait of sugar to a draught of wormwood.
Página 23 - ... defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She doth all things with so sweet a grace, it seems ignorance will not suffer her to do ill, being her mind is to do well. She bestows her year's wages at next fair; and in choosing her garments, counts no bravery in the world like decency.
Página 76 - A PRETENDER TO LEARNING Is one that would make all others more fools than himself; for though he know nothing, he would not have the world know so much. He conceits...
Página 24 - She dares go alone, and unfold sheep in the night, and fears no manner of ill, because she means none ; yet, to say truth, she is never alone, but is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts and prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy in that they are not palled with ensuing idle cogitations.
Página 77 - If he reads any thing in the morning, it comes up all at dinner; and as long as that lasts, the discourse is his. He is a great plagiary of tavern wit, and comes to sermons only that he may talk of Austin. His parcels are the mere scrapings from company, yet he complains at parting what time he has lost.
Página 116 - A TOBACCO-SELLER Is the only man that finds good in it which others brag of but do not; for it is meat, drink, and clothes to him. No man opens his ware with greater seriousness, or challenges your judgment more in the approbation. His shop is the rendezvous of spitting, where men dialogue with their noses, and their communication is smoke.1-1 It is the place only where Spain is commended and preferred before England itself.