Some Old English Worthies

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Dorothy Senior
S. Swift, limited, 1912 - English prose literature - 272 pages

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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 - Which though there want not the like relations,' is surelv 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...
Page 128 - Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance, And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y...
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 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 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.
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.
Page 280 - I meet 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.
Page 69 - Of favour sweet, and nature kind, With goodly eies, and yet starke blind, This poore blind Maiden I do say, In age shall goe in rich array. And he that takes her to his wife, Shall lead a joyfull happy life, The wealthiest Clothier shall he be, That ever was in that country. But clothing kept as it hath beene. In London never shall be seene : For weavers then the most shall win, That worke for cloathing next the skin.

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