A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their PresentMacmillan, 1865 - 229 pàgines |
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Anatomy of Melancholy Archbishop Williams Authorized Version Bacon BEN JONSON Bishop black guard body Book of Martyrs called CHAUCER Christ Christian Church common death derived discourse divine earlier employed English Essays etymology evil Examination of William Fairy Queen French God's good-nature grace Grand Mystery Greek hath Henry Henry VI History of King HOLLAND Holy honour humour Hydriotaphia ingenuity Jeremy Taylor JONSON Julius Cæsar King Richard language Latin Livy Lord low Latin meaning MILTON mind miserable modern Mystery of Godliness Naaman the Syrian natural once Paradise Lost passages peevish person Pisgah Sight Pliny Plutarch's Lives Plutarch's Morals Preface present Prince Rheims Roman Samson Agonistes schal sense Sermons SHAKESPEARE Sight of Palestine signified soul SPENSER Tale thee thing thou tion Troilus and Cressida unto viii Vulg wainscot WICLIF William Thorpe World of Words Worthies of England writers
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Pàgina 132 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! Ah, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Pàgina 3 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pàgina 158 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Pàgina 108 - The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low...
Pàgina 26 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Pàgina 151 - It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Pàgina 8 - Love was not in their looks, either to God Or to each other, but apparent guilt, And shame, and perturbation, and despair, Anger, and obstinacy, and hate, and guile. Whence Adam, faltering long, thus answer'd brief: I heard thee in the garden, and of thy voice Afraid, being naked, hid myself.
Pàgina 76 - ... princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient...
Pàgina 137 - And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Pàgina 177 - With gay religions full of pomp and gold, And devils to adore for deities ; Then were they known to men by various names, And various idols through the heathen world.