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... never abandoned a con- scientious opinion , nor stooped to adulation of the ruling powers , he sustained no injury in person or property . This fact may also be accepted as evidence of the com- paratively slight social dislocation ...
... never abandoned a con- scientious opinion , nor stooped to adulation of the ruling powers , he sustained no injury in person or property . This fact may also be accepted as evidence of the com- paratively slight social dislocation ...
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... never was seen the like in any man's memory , especially the tempest of wind , being south - west , which subverted , besides huge trees , many houses , innumerable chimneys ( amongst others that of my parlour at Sayes Court ) , and ...
... never was seen the like in any man's memory , especially the tempest of wind , being south - west , which subverted , besides huge trees , many houses , innumerable chimneys ( amongst others that of my parlour at Sayes Court ) , and ...
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... Never did so many husbands and wives die together ; never did so many parents carry their children with them to the grave , and go together into the same house under earth who had lived together in the same house upon it . Now the ...
... Never did so many husbands and wives die together ; never did so many parents carry their children with them to the grave , and go together into the same house under earth who had lived together in the same house upon it . Now the ...
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... never behold the like , nor seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the im- petuous flame , the shrieking of women and children , the hurry of people , the fall of towers , houses , and ...
... never behold the like , nor seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the im- petuous flame , the shrieking of women and children , the hurry of people , the fall of towers , houses , and ...
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... never been truly king before . One profligate young naval commander " made mighty sport of it , " and rejoiced that the citizens ' wives might be corrupted at a reduced cost . In his " Annus Mirabilis " Dryden concludes his de ...
... never been truly king before . One profligate young naval commander " made mighty sport of it , " and rejoiced that the citizens ' wives might be corrupted at a reduced cost . In his " Annus Mirabilis " Dryden concludes his de ...
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Page 260 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant and stay till the storm was over ; and then...
Page 352 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we will let thee poison the court ? Richard, thou art an old knave. Thou hast written books enough to load a cart, and every book as full of sedition as an egg is full of meat. By the grace of God, I'll look after thee. I see a great many of your brotherhood waiting to know what will befall their mighty Don. And there," he continued, fixing his savage eye on Bates, "there is a Doctor of the party at your elbow.
Page 89 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 100 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Page 84 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 336 - Forgive, me, LORD, for Thy dear SON, The ill that I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
Page 260 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Page 412 - To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 207 - Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes^ So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.
Page 30 - BO •universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods, such a strange consternation there was upon them...