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againſt almoſt amongſt aſked becauſe BEN JONSON beſt bleffed Book Book of Job called CHAP Chriſtian Church cloſe Country Courſe Days Diffent Diſtrict doth Engliſh Eſtate faid fame fhall fince firſt Folio fome fometimes ftill fuch fure Gentleman GEORGE GASCOIGNE GILES FLETCHER Grace greateſt hath Heart high-bred himſelf Hiſtory Holy Honoria and Mammon Houſe Houſehold Intereſts itſelf knew LADY Laft laſt leaſt leſs likewiſe lived LORD Love Meaſure Miniſter moft moſt muſt Nature Neighbourhood never obferve Occafion OLD SQUIRE'S OLD SQUIRES old Vicar paffed Pariſh Peace Perfon Pleaſure Pofition Poor Praiſe Prayer preached preſent Purpoſe Reaſon Remarks Reſpect riſing ROBERT SOUTHEY ſaid ſay ſcarcely ſee ſeemed ſeen Senfe Sermon ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome Soul SOUTHEY ſpeak ſpoke ſtill ſuch ſure thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thought Truth underſtand uſed Verſes whofe whoſe wife Wiſdom wiſhed Words World
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Page viii - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 140 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had. meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 144 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 166 - By darkness would imprison on his way, Think on thy home, my soul, and think aright Of what yet rests thee of life's wasting day : Thy sun posts westward, passed is thy morn, And twice it is not given thee to be born.
Page 91 - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 196 - Whate'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end; And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend.
Page 171 - Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Page 142 - Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
Page 2 - Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war...
Page 31 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...