Memories of Old Richmond: With Some Sidelights on English History

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D. Appleton, 1923 - 326 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 200 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Pàgina 145 - It may please your grace to understand that witches and sorcerers within these few last years are marvellously increased within your grace's realm. Your grace's subjects pine away, even unto the death ; their colour fadeth, their flesh rotteth, their speech is benumbed, their senses are bereft. I pray God they never practise further than upon the subject.
Pàgina 142 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Pàgina 143 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Pàgina 179 - London's Love, to the Royal Prince Henrie, meeting him on the River of Thames, at his returne from Richmonde, with a Worthie Fleete of her Cittizens, on Thursday the last of May, 1610. With a breife [sic] reporte of the Water Fight, and Fireworkes.
Pàgina 271 - The King's Birthday. No guns from the Tower as usual. The sun eclipsed at its rising. This day signal for the victory of William the Conqueror against Harold, near Battel, in Sussex. The wind, which had been hitherto west, was east all this day. Wonderful expectation of the Dutch fleet. Public prayers ordered to be read in the churches against invasion.
Pàgina 256 - VENUS her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays ; Tea both excels, which she vouchsafes to praise. The best of Queens, and best of herbs, we owe To that bold nation which the way did show To the fair region where the sun does rise, Whose rich productions we so justly prize.
Pàgina 242 - The Queen arrived with a train of Portuguese ladies in their monstrous fardingales, or guard-infantes, their complexions olivader * and sufficiently unagreeable. Her Majesty in the same habit, her fore-top long and turned aside very strangely. She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and, though low of stature, prettily shaped, languishing and excellent eyes, her teeth wronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out ; for the rest lovely enough.
Pàgina 151 - From that day forwards she grew worse and worse. She remained upon her cushions four days and nights, at the least. All about her could not persuade her, either to take any sustenance or go to bed.
Pàgina 301 - The third storie conteyns twelve chambers very well lighted, seeled, and most of them matted, and all fit for present use. Mem. That the structure last mentioned is leaded and battayled, and hath upon it fourteen turrets all covered with lead, standing a convenient height above the said leads ; which turrets very much adorn and set forth the fabrick of the whole structure, and are a very graceful ornament unto the whole house, being perspicuous to the country round about.

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