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... favourite studies at his house in Aldersgate- street , combining with his literary researches and sublime poetic flights , deep theological inquiries and lofty political speculations . a time when the rumours of invasion were afloat ...
... favourite studies at his house in Aldersgate- street , combining with his literary researches and sublime poetic flights , deep theological inquiries and lofty political speculations . a time when the rumours of invasion were afloat ...
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... favourite sport , and preparing materials for his celebrated work , ( which was published in 1653 , ) as well as writing two of his lives , that of Donne and Wotton , which appeared in 1640 and 1651 . When London was moved from one end ...
... favourite sport , and preparing materials for his celebrated work , ( which was published in 1653 , ) as well as writing two of his lives , that of Donne and Wotton , which appeared in 1640 and 1651 . When London was moved from one end ...
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... favourite . Banquets , balls , and gambling , formed the amusements of the evening , often disgraced by open licen- tiousness . " I can never forget , " says Evelyn , " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness , gaming and all ...
... favourite . Banquets , balls , and gambling , formed the amusements of the evening , often disgraced by open licen- tiousness . " I can never forget , " says Evelyn , " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness , gaming and all ...
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... favourite places of resort . " Hyde Park , ” observes a cotemporary writer , " everyone knows is the promenade of Lon- don ; nothing was so much in fashion during the fine weather as that promenade , which was the rendezvous of ...
... favourite places of resort . " Hyde Park , ” observes a cotemporary writer , " everyone knows is the promenade of Lon- don ; nothing was so much in fashion during the fine weather as that promenade , which was the rendezvous of ...
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... favourite sport in the days of Charles , and many a gay young cavalier exercised him- self , and displayed his dexterity among those green shades , where now piles of houses line the busy street , still retaining the name it bore nearly ...
... favourite sport in the days of Charles , and many a gay young cavalier exercised him- self , and displayed his dexterity among those green shades , where now piles of houses line the busy street , still retaining the name it bore nearly ...
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Page 145 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Page 78 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 39 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar Amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 33 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new"? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 56 - I thank you heartily, my Lord, for that. I had almost forgotten it. In troth, Sirs, my conscience in religion, I think, is very well known to all the world, and therefore I declare before you all that I die a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England, as I found it left me by my father.
Page 20 - It is more than this ; the world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion justling and turning. It is a heap of stones, and men with a vast confusion of languages ; and, were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
Page 20 - The noise in it is like that of bees, a strange humming or buzz mixed of walking tongues and feet; it is a kind of still roar or loud whisper.
Page 27 - ... he made many several lowly bowings ; and coming up to the side of the table where the bread and wine were covered, he bowed seven times ; and then, after the reading of many prayers, he came near the bread, and gently lifted up...
Page 155 - Parnassus by those who could with equal right have raised them bowers in the vale of Tempe, or erected their altars among the flexures of Meander? Why was Jove himself nursed upon a mountain? or why did the goddesses, when the prize of beauty was contested, try the cause upon the top of Ida?
Page 21 - The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains out of service; men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn merchants here and traffic for news. Some make it a preface to their dinner, and travel for a stomach; but thriftier men make it their ordinary, and board here very cheap. Of all such places it is least haunted with hobgoblins, for if a ghost would walk more, he could not.