Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester

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Chetham Society., 1879

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Página 73 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Página 53 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe...
Página 74 - Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily, Whose tender locks do tremble every one At everie little breath that under heaven is blowne.
Página 133 - And all who knew those Dunces to reward. Amid that area wide they took their stand, Where the tall May-pole once o'erlook'd the Strand, But now (so ANNE and Piety ordain) A Church collects the saints of Drury-lane. 30 With Authors, Stationers obey'd the call; The field of glory is a field for all! Glory, and gain, th' industrious tribe provoke; And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.
Página 163 - Crede not more than two are known to exist; one in the British Museum, and the other in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, both of them later than the first printed edition.
Página 23 - A poet of distinguished celebrity in his own day, no less admired for the versatility of his genius in tragedy and comedy, than dreaded for the poignancy of his satire ; in the former department the colleague of Jonson, in the latter the antagonist of Hall."— Zev.
Página 210 - III. Chester's Triumph in Honor of her Prince, as it was performed upon St. George's Day 1610, in the foresaid Citie. Reprinted from the original edition of 1610, with an Introduction and Notes. Edited by the Rev.
Página 49 - ... they cannot sweeten a discourse, or wrest admiration from men reading, as we can : reporting the meanest accident.
Página 47 - Other news I am aduertised of, that a scald trivial lying pamphlet, cald Greens Groats-worth of Wit, is given out to be of my doing. God neuer haue care of my soule, but utterly renounce me, if the least word or sillable in it proceeded from my pen, or if I were any way privie to the writing or printing of it.
Página 172 - To carrie all this pelfe and trash, because their bodies are unfit, Our wantons now in coaches dash from house to house, from street to street.

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