Sketches of ReadingLovejoy, Southern Counties Library, 1870 - 80 стор. |
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Sketches of Reading: Historical, Archaeological, and Descriptive (1870) John B. Jones Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2009 |
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Сторінка 13 - Tower, kept close prisoner, fed for a short time on bread and water; yet not so empty his body of food, as his mind was filled with fears, creating many suspicions to himself, when and how he had incurred the King's displeasure. At last a...
Сторінка 12 - The cloud-cap'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Сторінка 13 - Well fare thy heart, quoth the abbot ; and here in a cup of sack, I remember the health of his grace your master. I would give an hundred pounds, on the condition I could feed so heartily on beef, as you do.
Сторінка 16 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Сторінка 7 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Сторінка 14 - My lord (quoth the king), presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. I have been your physician, to cure you of your squeezie stomach, and here, as I deserve, I demand my fee for the s"ame.
Сторінка 14 - The abbot down with his dust ; and, glad he had escaped so, returned to Reading, as somewhat lighter in purse, so much more merry in heart than when he came thence.
Сторінка 30 - Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
Сторінка 26 - I am Sir Oracle ; when I ope my lips let no dog bark.
Сторінка 48 - ... extension of their territory to Texas and Oregon is to end ? And the most difficult of all, what is to become of the three millions of discontented slaves, and their constant increase, in a land whose written constitution sets out by proclaiming to mankind that all men are born free and equal ! It needs no ghost to come from the grave to tell us...