The Old Book Collector's Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Readable Reprints of Literary Rarities, Illustrative of the History, Literature, Manners, and Biography of the English Nation During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Volume 3Charles Hindley Reeves and Turner, 1873 - England |
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Page 5 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 1 - Queen's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same...
Page 6 - And this shall be one great difference between this last, and all the other preceding persecutions : for, in the former, the most eminent and spiritual ministers and christians did generally suffer most, and were most violently fallen upon; but in this last persecution, these shall be preserved by God, as a seed to partake of that glory which shall immediately follow, and come upon the church, as soon as ever this storm shall be over ; for as it shall be the sharpest, so it shall be the shortest...
Page 2 - There are every where so many statues that seem to breathe, so many miracles of consummate art, so many casts that rival even the perfection of Roman antiquity, that it may well claim and justify its name of Nonesuch, being without an equal; or, as the poet sung, " 'This, which no equal has in art or fame, Britons deservedly do Nonesuch name.
Page 4 - I cannot write much; God knows how hardly I steal this time when all sleep; and it is also time for me to separate my thoughts from the world. Beg my dead body, which living was denied you, and either lay it in Sherbourne, or Exeter church by my father and mother. I can say no more; time and death call me away.
Page 11 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I...
Page 7 - Ah ! what a goodly city this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drink for our money .[11 Unhappy he that lives to see these days, But happy are the dead Shiptoris wife says.
Page 11 - Loves company, and understanding talk, And on both sides held up, will sometimes walk ; And though old age his face with wrinkles fill, He hath been handsome, and is comely still ; Well fac'd ; and though his beard not oft corrected, Yet neat it grows, not like a beard neglected. From head to heel, his body hath all over A quick-set, thick-set nat'ral hairy cover, And thus, as -my dull weak invention can, I have anatomiz'd this poor old man. ' Though age be incident to most transgressing, Yet time...
Page 3 - As for me, I am no more yours, nor you mine. Death hath cut us asunder, and God hath divided me from the world, and you from me.