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... Consistory at Leipsic , using the feigned names of Titius and Lucretia , and giving the best turn to the matter that it would bear . The Consistory , availing itself of a very considerate distinction OF STERNE . -17.
... Consistory at Leipsic , using the feigned names of Titius and Lucretia , and giving the best turn to the matter that it would bear . The Consistory , availing itself of a very considerate distinction OF STERNE . -17.
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With Other Essays and Verses John Ferriar. The Consistory , availing itself of a very considerate distinction , * gave a favour- able answer ; though they acknowledged , that the impossibility of having offspring was the only one out of ...
With Other Essays and Verses John Ferriar. The Consistory , availing itself of a very considerate distinction , * gave a favour- able answer ; though they acknowledged , that the impossibility of having offspring was the only one out of ...
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... Consistory , which had hitherto taken no cognizance of the affair , now interposed , and de- manded that the parties should be sepa- rated , to do away the great scandal which their union gave to the godly . a › To take off the force of ...
... Consistory , which had hitherto taken no cognizance of the affair , now interposed , and de- manded that the parties should be sepa- rated , to do away the great scandal which their union gave to the godly . a › To take off the force of ...
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... Consistory could not in- stantly retract , but this proposal certainly procured time for digesting conciliatory measures . In the mean time , as Ma- dame de Sorlisi protested that she would rather die than forsake her husband , her ...
... Consistory could not in- stantly retract , but this proposal certainly procured time for digesting conciliatory measures . In the mean time , as Ma- dame de Sorlisi protested that she would rather die than forsake her husband , her ...
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... Consistory of Leipsic declared that the marriage ought to be tolerated , and the parties to be freed from any farther vexation or prosecution on that account . At the same time , the Elector , to prevent the growth of scandal , ordered ...
... Consistory of Leipsic declared that the marriage ought to be tolerated , and the parties to be freed from any farther vexation or prosecution on that account . At the same time , the Elector , to prevent the growth of scandal , ordered ...
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Page 76 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 94 - Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? Are we for ever to be twisting, and untwisting the same rope? for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace?
Page 171 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 84 - Howsoever, it is a kind of policy in these days, to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for, as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing like silly passengers at an antic picture in a painter's shop, that will not look at a judicious piece.
Page 165 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song, In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the genius of the shore, In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that .wander in that perilous flood.
Page 88 - So delightsome these toys are at first, they could spend whole days and nights without sleep, even whole years alone in such contemplations, and fantastical meditations, which are like unto dreams, and they will hardly be drawn from them, or willingly interrupt, so pleasant their vain conceits are, that they hinder their ordinary tasks and necessary business, they cannot address themselves to them, or almost...
Page 47 - He, continued my uncle Toby, looking up, and not regarding my father's interruption, who makes us all, and frames and puts us together in such forms and proportions, and for such ends, as is agreeable to his infinite wisdom.
Page 126 - There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill will: a word, — a look, which at one time would make no impression at another time wounds the heart; and like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
Page 90 - When I go musing all alone Thinking of divers things fore-known. When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Page 88 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.