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Page 8 - twas a gallant thing to see that crowning show, Valor and love, and a king above, and the royal beasts below. Ramped and roared the lions, with horrid laughing jaws; They bit, they glared, gave blows like beams, a wind went with their paws; With wallowing might and stifled roar they...
Page 8 - De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, a beauteous lively dame, With smiling lips and sharp bright eyes, which always...
Page 8 - She dropped her glove to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled; He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild; The leap was quick; return was quick; he has regained his place, Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face!
Page 6 - Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
Page 30 - The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place, Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face. "By heaven!" said Francis, "Rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat; "No love...
Page 15 - ... apocalypse of the world within me ! That my pains had vanished was now a trifle in my eyes; this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me, .in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a cpuQiiaKor r-snevdes, for all human woes ; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Page 13 - VIII. wore ordinarily cloth hose, except there came from Spain, by great chance, a pair of silk stockings; for Spain very early abounded with silk." Edward VI. was presented with a pair of Spanish silk stockings by his merchant, sir Thomas Gresham ; and the present was then much taken notice of.
Page 24 - Memorandum, that over the seats in the parliament house there were certain holes, some two inches square, in the walls; in which were placed posts, to uphold a scaffold round about the house within, for them to sit upon who used the wearing of great breeches, stuffed with hair like woolsacks ; which fashion being left the eighth year of Elizabeth, the scaffolds were taken down, and never since put up.
Page 13 - Thomas Gresham, his merchant, and the present was taken much notice of. Queen Elizabeth, in the third year of her reign, was presented by Mrs. Montague, her silk woman, with a pair of black knit silk stockings, and thenceforth she never wore cloth any more.
Page 15 - Here was a panacea, a pas>jMzw vifza&tg, for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat-pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail.