The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection of the Lives ... of the Most Eminent Men ... of Great Britain and Ireland ; from the Reign of Henry VIII. to George II. Both Inclusive ...E. Dilly, 1762 |
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Pagina 18
... hundred lies here engraved , ' Tis an hundred to ten he is not faved : If any man aleth , who lies in this tomb ? Oh ! oh ! quoth the devil , ' tis my John - a- Combe . But the sharpness of the fatire is faid to have ftung the man fo ...
... hundred lies here engraved , ' Tis an hundred to ten he is not faved : If any man aleth , who lies in this tomb ? Oh ! oh ! quoth the devil , ' tis my John - a- Combe . But the sharpness of the fatire is faid to have ftung the man fo ...
Pagina 29
... hundred gentlemen volunteers , whom queen Elizabeth permitted Henry . Champernon to tranfport into France for the fervice of the proteftant princes . Mr. Raleigh had here a good opportunity of acquiring ex- perience in the art of war ...
... hundred gentlemen volunteers , whom queen Elizabeth permitted Henry . Champernon to tranfport into France for the fervice of the proteftant princes . Mr. Raleigh had here a good opportunity of acquiring ex- perience in the art of war ...
Pagina 32
... little band of eighty foot and eight horfe , to his old quar- ters at Cork , he received intelligence that Bar- ry was at Clove with feveral hundred men : he he refolved to pass through that town , and offer 32 BRITISH PLUTARCH .
... little band of eighty foot and eight horfe , to his old quar- ters at Cork , he received intelligence that Bar- ry was at Clove with feveral hundred men : he he refolved to pass through that town , and offer 32 BRITISH PLUTARCH .
Pagina 34
... people . ' · con- Immediately upon this grant , captain Ra- leigh fitted out two veffels , which reached the gulf of Florida the second of July : they failed failed along the fhore about one hundred and twenty miles 34 BRITISH PLUTARCH .
... people . ' · con- Immediately upon this grant , captain Ra- leigh fitted out two veffels , which reached the gulf of Florida the second of July : they failed failed along the fhore about one hundred and twenty miles 34 BRITISH PLUTARCH .
Pagina 35
... hundred and twenty miles , and at lalt debarked , on a low land , which proved to be an inland called Wokoken . After taking a formal poffeffion of this country in the name of the queen , he carried on a friendly correfpondence with the ...
... hundred and twenty miles , and at lalt debarked , on a low land , which proved to be an inland called Wokoken . After taking a formal poffeffion of this country in the name of the queen , he carried on a friendly correfpondence with the ...
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Pagina 128 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Pagina 10 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Pagina 21 - ... between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
Pagina 65 - Beg my dead body which, living, was denied thee, and either lay it at Sherborne, if the land continue, or in Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more — time and death call me away.
Pagina 138 - Strafford of high treason, for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamental laws and government of His Majesty's realms of England and Ireland, and to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical government...
Pagina 20 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Pagina 65 - ... accusers; and send us to meet in his glorious kingdom ! My dear wife, farewell! Bless my poor boy, pray for me, and let my good God hold you. both in his arms ! Written with the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, alas! overthrown...
Pagina 9 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar; graves at my command Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.
Pagina 63 - I trust my blood will quench their malice that have thus cruelly murdered me, and that they will not seek also to kill thee and thine with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct thee I know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial; and I plainly perceive that my death was determined from the first day.
Pagina 5 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.