Percy: Prelate and PoetSmith, Elder, & Company, 1908 - 324 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... Church - Reform of the Irish clergy - Bishop Percy pays a prolonged visit to England on account of Mrs. Percy's health -The Duke of Northumberland prescribes a remedy - Meeting of the Club ' after the execution of Louis XVI . - Marriage ...
... Church - Reform of the Irish clergy - Bishop Percy pays a prolonged visit to England on account of Mrs. Percy's health -The Duke of Northumberland prescribes a remedy - Meeting of the Club ' after the execution of Louis XVI . - Marriage ...
Pàgina 2
... Church , which had been converted by the Roundheads into a temporary powder magazine . A fire naturally resulted that consumed the college , almshouses , and the greater part of the high town . Richard Baxter , the incumbent of the ...
... Church , which had been converted by the Roundheads into a temporary powder magazine . A fire naturally resulted that consumed the college , almshouses , and the greater part of the high town . Richard Baxter , the incumbent of the ...
Pàgina 4
... Church on the 29th of the same month . 6 Tastes as well as refinement come , as Napoleon said , avec les langes , and from his birthplace , which was full of historic associations , Percy acquired his love of antiquarian research . In ...
... Church on the 29th of the same month . 6 Tastes as well as refinement come , as Napoleon said , avec les langes , and from his birthplace , which was full of historic associations , Percy acquired his love of antiquarian research . In ...
Pàgina 7
... church . They have twopence a week allowed to each , which is not charged to their friends , as it is generally expended on forfeits , or spent under such regulations as may not endanger their health . Entrance paid with each scholar ...
... church . They have twopence a week allowed to each , which is not charged to their friends , as it is generally expended on forfeits , or spent under such regulations as may not endanger their health . Entrance paid with each scholar ...
Pàgina 11
... church possesses one of those beautiful and graceful spires for which this county of Spires and Squires ' is famous , and those who have travelled between Peterborough and Northampton will remember the succession of hills rising from a ...
... church possesses one of those beautiful and graceful spires for which this county of Spires and Squires ' is famous , and those who have travelled between Peterborough and Northampton will remember the succession of hills rising from a ...
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Pàgina 156 - Since I had the pleasure of seeing you last, I have been almost wholly in the country at a farmer's house, quite alone, trying to write a comedy. It is now finished; but when or how it will be acted, or whether it will be acted at all, are questions I cannot resolve. I am therefore so much employed upon that, that I am under the necessity of putting off my intended visit to Lincolnshire for this season. Reynolds is just returned from Paris, and finds himself now in the case of a truant that must...
Pàgina 157 - England, for which I have been a good deal abused in the newspapers, for betraying the liberties of the people. God knows I had no thought for or against liberty in my head ; my whole aim being to make up a book of a decent size, that, as 'Squire Richard says, would do no harm to nobody.
Pàgina 173 - I put my hat upon my head And walked into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand.
Pàgina 156 - I have been trying these three months to do something to make people laugh. There have I been strolling about the hedges, studying jests with a most tragical countenance. The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling work; and that not so much my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances.
Pàgina 73 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Pàgina 20 - To share with him the pang of woe ? Say, should disease or pain befall, Wilt thou assume the nurse's care, Nor wistful those gay scenes recall, Where thou wert fairest of the fair ? And when at last thy love shall die, Wilt thou receive his parting breath, Wilt thou repress each struggling sigh, And cheer with smiles the bed of death ? And wilt thou o'er his breathless clay Strew flowers and drop the tender tear, Nor then regret those scenes so gay, Where thou wert fairest of the fair ! THE FRIAR...
Pàgina 41 - Then leaving life, Earl Percy took The dead man by the hand ; And said, " Earl Douglas, for thy life Would I had lost my land. " O Christ ! my very heart doth bleed With sorrow for thy sake ; For sure, a more redoubted knight Mischance did never take.
Pàgina 156 - Paris, and finds himself now in the case of a truant that must make up for his idle time by diligence. We have therefore agreed to postpone our journey till next summer, when we hope to have the honour of waiting upon Lady Rothes, and you, and staying double the time of our late intended visit.
Pàgina 37 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Pàgina 20 - NANCY, wilt thou go with me, Nor sigh to leave the flaunting town : Can silent glens have charms for thee, The lowly cot and russet gown...