Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 111

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Chetham Society., 1883

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Página 398 - WHITNEY (Geffrey). — A Choice of Emblemes, and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized, And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney.
Página 367 - BEFORE my face the picture hangs, That daily should put me in mind Of those cold names and bitter pangs, That shortly I am like to find : But yet, alas! full little I Do think hereon, that I must die.
Página 368 - E'en such is man; whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth; The flower fades, the morning hasteth; The sun sets, the shadow flies; The gourd consumes,— and man he dies...
Página 413 - ... twere with tears, till he returns ; and how she veils her flowers when he is gone, as if she scorned to be looked on by an inferior eye, or did contemn to wait upon a meaner light than him ; — when this I meditate, methinks the flowers have spirits far more generous than ours ; and give us fair examples, to despise the servile fawnings and idolatries wherewith we court these earthly things below, which merit not the service we bestow.
Página 392 - Bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises : both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging : and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment.
Página 367 - But yet, alas ! but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die. Continually at my bed's head An hearse doth hang, which doth me tell That I ere morning may be dead, Though now I feel myself full well : But yet, alas ! for all this I Have little mind that I must die. The gown which I...
Página 391 - Stück ist, wie ich aus Collier aa O. entnehme, vielleicht nie aufgeführt, wenigstens nicht bis 1582, wo der Dichter es in eine Novelle umwandelte, deren erste Randglosse lautet: ,,This historie for rareness thereof is lively set out in a comedie by the Reporter of the whole worke, but yet never presented upon stage.
Página 436 - MYTENS. 645. Edward, eleventh Lord Zouch. An old man with grey hair and beard : full-length, seated. He was one of the peers who sat on the trial of Mary Queen of Scots; and is interesting from the published letters of Sir H.
Página 384 - ... was under the necessity of applying to the generosity of his friends. This he found to be " a broken reed, and worse than common beggary of charity from strangers. Now craft accosted him in his sleep, and tempted him with the proposals of several professions; but for the knavery or slavery of them, he rejected all: his munificence constrained him to love money, and his magnanimity to hate all the ways of getting it.
Página 314 - March, 1793, and received the early part of his education at the grammar school of his native place, of which his father was a feoffee and, for many years, the much respected treasurer.

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