Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse: Written in the Time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II.

Samuel Butler, Sir Roger L'Estrange

R. Smith and G. Strahan, 1715 - 279 стор.

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• CONTENTS: 1
• Page 1 14: 37
• A Propoſal humbly offerd for: 58
• Samúel Butler and Sir John Birken: 88
• A Thought upon Death after hearing: 158
• The Character of a Fanatick 199: 167
• or a friend: 177
• A Letter from John Audland a Quaker: 187
• The Anſwer of William Prynne: 199
• The Geneva Ballad: 210
• The Roundhead: 217
• The Character of the Five Sedaries: 225

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Сторінка 158 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill : But their strong nerves at last must yield ; They tame but one another still : Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath When they, pale captives,...

Сторінка 12 - As feeble damsels, for his sake, Would have been proud to undertake ; And, bravely ambitious .to redeem The world's loss and their own, Strove who should have the honour to lay down And change a life with him...

Сторінка 70 - Corpus according to the true intent and meaning of this act, may be directed and run into any county palatine, the cinque ports, or other privileged places within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the islands of Jersey or Guernsey; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

Сторінка 159 - ... reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.

Сторінка 138 - By the fundamental law of this kingdom — by the general law of all nations — and the unanimous consent of all rational men in the world, written in every man's heart with the pen of a diamond in capital letters, and a character so legible, that he that runs may read.

Сторінка 3 - Th' arrival of his fatal hour, Made ev'ry day he had to live, To his last minute a preparative ; . Taught the wild Arabs on the road To act in a more...

Сторінка 120 - Raving is over, you bestow much Pains to prove it one of the Fundamentals of Law, that the King is not above the Law, but the Law above the King.

Сторінка 129 - Believe me, this were something, if you could prove he made them wicked, as well as Judges. But if this Plea hold, you have argued well for your honourable Clients, the People; for if they made the King, as you...

Сторінка 117 - Dread Sovereign, and your own Honourable Client, the People; I was much taken with your Impartiality, that not only exempts all rational Men from being your Clients in this...

Сторінка 61 - Tenements, or Hereditaments, within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick...

Бібліографічна інформація

• Назва: Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse: Written in the Time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II.
• Автори: Samuel Butler, Sir Roger L'Estrange
• Видання: 3
• Видавець: R. Smith and G. Strahan, 1715
• Оригінал із: Мічиганський університет
• Оцифровано: 22 трав. 2007
• Обсяг: 279 стор.