The Poems, Etc., of Richard James, B. D. (1592-1638).

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Chiswick Press, 1880 - Počet stran: 298
 

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Strana 56 - ... inches distant from each other. Upon each is a tile eighteen inches square, as if designed for a capital ; and over them a perforated tile, two feet square. Such are continued over all the pillars. Above these are two layers ; one of coarse mortar, mixed with small...
Strana 191 - A mind reflecting ages past, whose clear And equal surface can make things appear, — Distant a thousand years, — and represent Them in their lively colours, just extent : To outrun hasty time, retrieve the fates, Roll back the heavens, blow ope the iron gates Of Death and Lethe, where confused lie Great heaps of ruinous mortality...
Strana lxxxi - While the plebeian imp, from lofty throne, Creates and rules a world, and works upon Mankind by secret engines; now to move A chilling pity, then a rigorous love; To strike up and stroke down, both joy and ire To steer th...
Strana 192 - Plato's year and new scene of the world Them unto us, or us to them had hurl'd. To...
Strana 193 - They say, his body; but his verse shall live, And more than nature takes our hands shall give; In a less volume, but more strongly bound, Shakespeare shall breathe and speak; with laurel crown'd.
Strana lxxxviii - This untrusty fellow, imitating, it seems, the said James, took one copy secretly for himself, when he wrote another for sir Robert ; and out of his own transcript sold away several copies, till at last one of them came into Wentworth's hands, of the North, now lord deputy of Ireland. He acquainted the lords and others of the privy-council with it. They sent for the said young fellow, and examining him where he had the written book, he confessed sir Robert Cotton delivered it to him.
Strana lxxxix - ... continually. When I went several times to visit and comfort him in the year 1630, he would tell me, ' they had broken his heart, that had locked up his library from him.
Strana 193 - Muses know And onely know the countries where they grow. Now when they could no longer him enjoy In mortall garments pent; death may destroy They say his body, but his verse shall live And more then nature takes, our hands shall give.
Strana lxxxviii - John himself was apprehended, and, being conceived to be the author of the book, was committed close prisoner to the Tower. Being in danger to have been questioned for his life about it, upon examination upon oath, he made a clear, full, and punctual declaration that he had received the...
Strana 192 - ... laughing at our feare ; abus'd, and glad To be abus'd, affected with that truth Which we perceive is false ; pleas'd in that ruth At which we start ; and by elaborate play Tortur'd and tickled ; by a crab-like way, Time past...

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