England, Literary and Social, from a German Point of ViewR. Bentley & son, 1875 - 442 sivua |
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Sivu 9
... hands of the executioner or common hangman . Little trace now exists of the great Norman nobility of William , as little of the creations of Lackland . Among England's oldest titled families , three can trace their genealogy to the time ...
... hands of the executioner or common hangman . Little trace now exists of the great Norman nobility of William , as little of the creations of Lackland . Among England's oldest titled families , three can trace their genealogy to the time ...
Sivu 22
... hands , and with faces as if they slept , repose on their stone sarcophagi . What a row of coffins and of remembrances ! Yet only two of them have preserved for us , over so long a time , their romantic or historical charm— " Black ...
... hands , and with faces as if they slept , repose on their stone sarcophagi . What a row of coffins and of remembrances ! Yet only two of them have preserved for us , over so long a time , their romantic or historical charm— " Black ...
Sivu 23
... hands , out of which , however , Cromwell took the sword . " The miscreant , " says my guide- book , -which might well have been written by a strong High Churchman , -who broke the pre- cious stone out of the crown of the dead Prince my ...
... hands , out of which , however , Cromwell took the sword . " The miscreant , " says my guide- book , -which might well have been written by a strong High Churchman , -who broke the pre- cious stone out of the crown of the dead Prince my ...
Sivu 39
... hand portraying . " But the old Chaucer was never so well off ; the authenticated facts do not agree with these pleasing fantastic forms ; nay , they speak wholly against them . At the time when the sunshine of Court favour shone upon ...
... hand portraying . " But the old Chaucer was never so well off ; the authenticated facts do not agree with these pleasing fantastic forms ; nay , they speak wholly against them . At the time when the sunshine of Court favour shone upon ...
Sivu 40
... hand , when he was dismissed from his office in disgrace , though he had leisure , the kingly favour was wanting to him ; to which alone such an asylum could have been due . Shall we therefore entirely give up the thought of a joyful ...
... hand , when he was dismissed from his office in disgrace , though he had leisure , the kingly favour was wanting to him ; to which alone such an asylum could have been due . Shall we therefore entirely give up the thought of a joyful ...
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Abbey appeared Athenæum Beau Brummel beautiful Blackfriars Theatre blue called Canterbury Canterbury Tales castle Cathedral century Chaucer Christian church City club coach coffee coffee-houses colour Countess Court Cromwell D'Israeli dark Duke England English famous favour Furness Abbey garden gentleman Geoffrey Chaucer German Globe Theatre green ground hand highroad honour horses house of Rothschild Jewish Jews Kent King lady lake land literature London Lord Menasseh Menasseh ben Israel ment mountains Nathan Meyer Ned Ward neighbourhood never Newby Bridge night nobility noble once palace Parliament Paul's play poem poet poetry political present day Prince Queen railway rich road Rothschild Samson Gideon says scarcely Shakspeare Shakspeare's side smoke society Spectator stage stands stone stood streets Tatler tavern theatre tion took town traveller trees walls Whigs whilst whole wonderful words young
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Sivu 69 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Sivu 180 - All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-house; poetry, under that of Will's Coffee-house; learning, under the title of (\. ' Grecian; foreign and domestic news you will have from St. James's Coffee-house; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.
Sivu 181 - This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned now dispute only about the truth of the game.
Sivu 19 - At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road ; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.
Sivu 171 - I first of all called in at St. James's, where I found the whole outward Room in a Buzz of Politics. The Speculations were but very indifferent towards the Door, but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the Room, and were so...
Sivu 361 - On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the uninclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides.
Sivu 314 - The points of difference between Christianity and Judaism have very much to do with a man's fitness to Je a bishop or a rabbi. But they have no more to do with his fitness to be a magistrate, a legislator, or a minister of finance, than with his fitness to be a cobbler.
Sivu 123 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Sivu 27 - Some menacing expressions which they had dropped gave a suspicion of their design ; and the king dispatched a messenger after them, charging them to attempt nothing against the person of the primate : but these orders arrived too late to prevent their fatal purpose.
Sivu 246 - The two great national theatres on one side, a churchyard full of mouldy but undying celebrities on the other ; a fringe of houses studded in every part with anecdote...