The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First CollectedJ. R. Smith, 1856 - 311 páginas |
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... A Drunken Dutchman resident in England 123 An Improvident young Gallant 124 A Button - maker of Amsterdam 125 A Distaster of the Time A meere fellow of an house 127 128 CHARACTERS , ETC. continued . ✓ A meere Pettyfogger An vi CONTENTS .
... A Drunken Dutchman resident in England 123 An Improvident young Gallant 124 A Button - maker of Amsterdam 125 A Distaster of the Time A meere fellow of an house 127 128 CHARACTERS , ETC. continued . ✓ A meere Pettyfogger An vi CONTENTS .
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... England ; he was , however , a mere child at the time , and many years must have elapsed before his re - introduction at court in 1606 . The circumstances attending the establishment of his favour with the king , are graphically ...
... England ; he was , however , a mere child at the time , and many years must have elapsed before his re - introduction at court in 1606 . The circumstances attending the establishment of his favour with the king , are graphically ...
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... England , during the Reign of James the First : 8vo . 1802 , p . 106. They are not in- cluded in Sir W. Scott's notice of the author , prefixed to his reprint of Weldon's Court of King James . ( See Secret History of the Court of James ...
... England , during the Reign of James the First : 8vo . 1802 , p . 106. They are not in- cluded in Sir W. Scott's notice of the author , prefixed to his reprint of Weldon's Court of King James . ( See Secret History of the Court of James ...
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... England together , and were great friends . " The circumstances respecting Overbury's intro- duction at court are not recorded , but it was doubt- less through the influence of his powerful friend , who is said to have looked him as ...
... England together , and were great friends . " The circumstances respecting Overbury's intro- duction at court are not recorded , but it was doubt- less through the influence of his powerful friend , who is said to have looked him as ...
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... England , full of natural eagerness to behold the young and beautiful creature whom he was to claim as his wife . But so far was the lady from sharing his anxiety , that she had engaged her affections to another , and regarded with the ...
... England , full of natural eagerness to behold the young and beautiful creature whom he was to claim as his wife . But so far was the lady from sharing his anxiety , that she had engaged her affections to another , and regarded with the ...
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The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ... Sir Thomas Overbury Visualização integral - 1856 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
alwayes beauty Ben Jonson better bloud body British Museum businesse church cloth commonly conscience Countess Countess of Essex court courtier dare death devill doth Duke of Guise Earl edition enemies England eyes faire falne farre fashion feare foole France friends gentrie give goes greatnesse heart heaven hee hath himselfe honour husband justice keepe King James learned live London Lord lust marry master Mayerne meere mind nature neere never night Overbury's peace peece physicke Piers Ploughman poem prayes Prince printed prisoners reason religion says selfe shee shew Simon Forman sinn Sir Simonds D'Ewes Sir Thomas Overbury sleep SOHO SQUARE Somerset souldiers soule Spaine speake stomack sunne thee thing thinke thou tion truth Tyburn unto vertue vice warre weares wife woman words worth wrie
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Página 40 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Página 296 - Trust me, master, it is a choice song, and sweetly sung by honest Maudlin. I now see it was not without cause, that our good Queen Elizabeth did .so often wish herself a Milk-maid all the month of May, because they are not troubled with fears and cares, but sing sweetly all the day, and sleep securely all the night : and without doubt, honest, innocent, pretty Maudlin does so.
Página xxiv - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 314 - Nothing can be more interesting than this little book, containing a lively picture of the opinions and conversations of one of the most eminent scholars and most distinguished patriots England has produced, living at a period the most eventful of our history.
Página 298 - Tobacco, which goes far beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used, but, as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as Tinkers do Ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned Tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.