Some Old English WorthiesDorothy Senior |
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... gentleman who , even in the first flush of victory , forgot himself in praise of another to whom , rather than to himself he considered honour was due . We dwell with pleasure on the picture of that mighty man of his hands , George ...
... gentleman who , even in the first flush of victory , forgot himself in praise of another to whom , rather than to himself he considered honour was due . We dwell with pleasure on the picture of that mighty man of his hands , George ...
Page 88
... gentlemen , but of two in particular , Duke Robert and Sir William Ferrers . It chanced one day that fair Margaret , with many others of her master's people , went a - haymaking , attired in a red stammell * petticoat , with a broad ...
... gentlemen , but of two in particular , Duke Robert and Sir William Ferrers . It chanced one day that fair Margaret , with many others of her master's people , went a - haymaking , attired in a red stammell * petticoat , with a broad ...
Page 89
... gentleman , I will come back to your keeping again . ' The keepers being agreeable , the Duke departed , and went with old Gray to the fields to inspect the workmen . Whilst Gray was busy with other things , the Duke took the ...
... gentleman , I will come back to your keeping again . ' The keepers being agreeable , the Duke departed , and went with old Gray to the fields to inspect the workmen . Whilst Gray was busy with other things , the Duke took the ...
Page 93
... gentleman , seeing him so strongly obsessed by this notion , counselled his lady not to contradict him , but rather to say that she would find a skilled physician to cure him . For , ' said he , as Sir William hath taken this conceit of ...
... gentleman , seeing him so strongly obsessed by this notion , counselled his lady not to contradict him , but rather to say that she would find a skilled physician to cure him . For , ' said he , as Sir William hath taken this conceit of ...
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... gentleman of great position , by whom she had many children . Some say that the river into which Cole's body was thrown was afterwards called the river Cole , and the town , Colebrooke . How some of the Clothiers ' Wives went to the ...
... gentleman of great position , by whom she had many children . Some say that the river into which Cole's body was thrown was afterwards called the river Cole , and the town , Colebrooke . How some of the Clothiers ' Wives went to the ...
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afterwards amongst answered asked bade Beatrice began better brazen head called Cardiff Castle cloth clothiers conjured cried Cuthbert dame daughter death devil doth Duke Robert Earl Earl of Kendal England fair father favour fear fell Friar Bacon Friar Bungay Friar Rush friends gave gentleman George a Green Gloucester goodman goodwife Gray Grymes hand hath hear heard heart Henry Hodgekins honour horse host hostess husband Julius Cæsar King King of England King's lived London Lord maid Maid Marian Majesty Margaret Marian master meat merry Miles monks never night Note Old Cole Pindar poor pray priest princes prior quoth ready replied returned Robin Hood Roger Bacon sent servant soon speak spirit St Swithin sweet tell thee things thou told took town trouble Vandermast Wakefield Weeping Cross whilst wife William of Worcester woman words
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Page 18 - Why, so can I ; or so can any man : But will they come, when you do call for them ? Glend.
Page 226 - I have been a fiddler," &c. And did you heare of a mirth that befell, the morrow after a wedding day : At carrying a bride at home to dwell, and away to Twiver, away, away...
Page 22 - Every ear is filled with the story of Friar Bacon, that made a brazen head to speak these words, time is? Which though there want not the like relations,^ surely too literally received, and was but a mystical fable concerning the philosopher's great work, wherein he eminently laboured : implying no more by the copper head, than the vessel wherein it was wrought, and by the words it spake, than the opportunity to be...
Page 220 - Bacons man and friend. But I will have you take no shape Of a bear a horse, or ape : Nor will I have you terrible, And therefore come invisible.
Page 128 - Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance, And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y...
Page 22 - Now letting slip this critical opportunity, he missed the intended treasure, which had he obtained, he might have made out the tradition of making a brazen wall about England : that is, the most powerful defence, and strongest fortification which gold could have effected . 8.
Page 280 - Thro' bogs, thro' brakes ; Or else, unseene with them I go, All in the nicke To play some tricke And frolicke it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meete them like a man ; Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound ; And to a horse I turn me can ; To trip and trot about them round, But if to ride My backe they stride, More swift than wind away I go, Ore hedge and lands, Thro...
Page 125 - THE HISTORY OF GEORGE A GREEN, Pindar of the Town of Wakefield, his Birth, Calling, Valour, and Reputation in the Country : with divers pleasant as well as serious Passages in the Course of his Life and Fortune. Illustrated with cuts. Sm. 8vo. London, Printed for Samuel Ballard at the Blue-Ball in Little Britain, 1706.
Page 179 - Bacon* CONTAINING THE WONDERFUL!.' THINGS THAT HE DID IN HIS LIFE: ALSO THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH; WITH THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE TWO CONIUUEltS, BUNOYE AND VANDERMAST. VERY PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFULL TO BE READ.
Page 278 - It is possible to invent an engine of a little bulk, yet of great efficacy, either to the depressing or elevation of the very greatest weight, which would be of much consequence in several accidents : for hereby a man may either ascend or descend any walls, delivering himself or comrades from prison ; and this engine is only three fingers high and four broad.