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“He had catched a great cold, had he had no other clothes to wear than the skin of a bear not yet killed.”—FULLER. Young Ladislaw did not pay that visit to which Mr. Brooke had invited him, and only…
But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes. —BEN JONSON. Lydgate, in…
He had more tow on his distaffe Than Gerveis knew. —CHAUCER. The ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning, lay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows…
1 st Gent . How class your man?—as better than the most, Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak? As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? 2 d Gent . Nay, tell me how you class your weal…
“Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to dainty meat, Named Idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them…
“Black eyes you have left, you say, Blue eyes fail to draw you; Yet you seem more rapt to-day, Than of old we saw you. “Oh, I track the fairest fair Through new haunts of pleasure; Footpr…
“All that in woman is adored In thy fair self I find— For the whole sex can but afford The handsome and the kind.” —SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. The question whether Mr. Tyke should be appointed as s…
“The clerkly person smiled and said Promise was a pretty maid, But being poor she died unwed.” The Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening, lived in an old parsonage, buil…
“Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the sc…
“L’ altra vedete ch’ha fatto alla guancia Della sua palma, sospirando, letto.” — Purgatorio , vii. When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of Windsor, when the Duke of Wellingto…
