Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 50Richard Bentley, 1861 |
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... Lord Protector and the Admiral . A semblance of good understanding was maintained between them , both being exceedingly careful to do no act to betray the secret animosity they still nourished towards each other . Somerset strove to ...
... Lord Protector and the Admiral . A semblance of good understanding was maintained between them , both being exceedingly careful to do no act to betray the secret animosity they still nourished towards each other . Somerset strove to ...
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... Lord Clinton , designed to attend the army on its march along the coast , having set sail , the Lord Pro- tector , accompanied by the Earl of Warwick , as second in com- mand , took formal leave of his royal nephew , and set forth on ...
... Lord Clinton , designed to attend the army on its march along the coast , having set sail , the Lord Pro- tector , accompanied by the Earl of Warwick , as second in com- mand , took formal leave of his royal nephew , and set forth on ...
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... Lord Protector , " he said , " over the Scots on the field of Pinkey , near Musselburgh . The Scottish army is totally routed , about fourteen thousand of them being slain , and fifteen hundred made prisoners , among whom is the Earl of ...
... Lord Protector , " he said , " over the Scots on the field of Pinkey , near Musselburgh . The Scottish army is totally routed , about fourteen thousand of them being slain , and fifteen hundred made prisoners , among whom is the Earl of ...
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... lord mayor and the citizens will , no doubt , give him a magnificent reception . Your lordship is discreet to bide your time . " " When his popularity wanes , the blow shall be struck , ” said the Admiral . " But I must to the palace ...
... lord mayor and the citizens will , no doubt , give him a magnificent reception . Your lordship is discreet to bide your time . " " When his popularity wanes , the blow shall be struck , ” said the Admiral . " But I must to the palace ...
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... Lord Protector , passed his time chiefly in conferences with Cranmer , in listening to the homilies of Ridley and Latimer , and other zealous Protestant divines , and in devising means to free his dominions utterly from the errors of ...
... Lord Protector , passed his time chiefly in conferences with Cranmer , in listening to the homilies of Ridley and Latimer , and other zealous Protestant divines , and in devising means to free his dominions utterly from the errors of ...
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Page 164 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 163 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 505 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 517 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say : " Grieve not, my child ; chase all thy fears away...
Page 419 - I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine : And, while the wings of Fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft — Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.
Page 239 - ... with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 415 - There is a wonderful insight in Heaven's broad and simple sunshine. While we give it credit only for depicting the merest surface, it actually brings out the secret character with a truth that no painter would ever venture upon, even could he detect it.
Page 517 - The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had the dear Original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is the last object that I see at night, and, of course, the first on which I open my eyes in the morning.
Page 415 - As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest...
Page 225 - MAIDEN ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...