The Doctor, &c, Volumes 1-2Harper & brothers, 1872 |
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AGNOLO FIRENZUOLA appear astrology Bacon BEAUMONT and FLETCHER beauty bells Ben Jonson better Bishop blessing called cause CHAPTER character church CONCERNING course Daniel death Deborah delight disease doctor Doncaster doth earth effect English evil eyes father favour feeling flea George Wither hand happy hath head heart Heaven honour HORACE WALPOLE human humour Ingleton INTERCHAPTER Jane Shore kind king knew knowledge lady learned less live look Lord LORD BYRON manner marriage matter mind moral MUSSULMEN nature never observed opinion passed perhaps persons Peter Hopkins pleasure poet portrait reader reason river Don says sense sometimes soul tell THAXTED thee things Thomas Mace thou thought tion town unto Urim and Thummim verses wife William Dove wise wish words write young youth
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Page 182 - They say miracles are past ; and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
Page 198 - There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.
Page 120 - For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of His goodness.
Page 122 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 198 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Page 144 - Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge : If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text and preacheth patience.
Page 108 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 71 - ... to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Page 53 - Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 125 - At Crawley's booth, over against the Crown tavern in Smithfield, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called ' The Old Creation of the World,' yet newly revived ; with the addition of Noah's Flood; also several fountains playing water during the time of the play.