The British Essayists: ObserverC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... seems to have had the most point , and he was as remarkable for taking a jest , as for giving it . A country fellow came to Rome , who was so like the Emperor , that all the city ran after him ; Augustus heard of it , and ordering the ...
... seems to have had the most point , and he was as remarkable for taking a jest , as for giving it . A country fellow came to Rome , who was so like the Emperor , that all the city ran after him ; Augustus heard of it , and ordering the ...
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... seem , therefore , that he was by nature a better man than his predecessor . The cautious timid character of Augustus ... seems on his part also to have had a jealous holding and respect towards Germanicus , which had an influence over ...
... seem , therefore , that he was by nature a better man than his predecessor . The cautious timid character of Augustus ... seems on his part also to have had a jealous holding and respect towards Germanicus , which had an influence over ...
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... seems to have been a period of re- pose , when he might have new modelled the consti- tution , had he been so disposed ; but this I take to be appearance only , for those mutinies had been quelled by Germanicus and Drusus , and both ...
... seems to have been a period of re- pose , when he might have new modelled the consti- tution , had he been so disposed ; but this I take to be appearance only , for those mutinies had been quelled by Germanicus and Drusus , and both ...
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... seems to have been surrendered to desperation and disgust ; he retired to the Campania , and devolved the government upon his minister Sejanus ; there were times in which some marks of his former spirit appeared , but they were short ...
... seems to have been surrendered to desperation and disgust ; he retired to the Campania , and devolved the government upon his minister Sejanus ; there were times in which some marks of his former spirit appeared , but they were short ...
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... seem dictated by re- venge and violence : the Courts of High Commis- sion and Star - Chamber are abolished , and posteri- ty applauds their deliverers ; the city - crosses are pulled down , the bishops sent to the Tower , and their ...
... seem dictated by re- venge and violence : the Courts of High Commis- sion and Star - Chamber are abolished , and posteri- ty applauds their deliverers ; the city - crosses are pulled down , the bishops sent to the Tower , and their ...
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Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Page 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 93 - Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments ; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou.
Page 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Page 88 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 124 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Page 168 - But will arise, and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his worshippers.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.