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Page 39
... She had fome children by her firft hufband , and bore Calvin one fon , who died foon after his birth . The mother died in 1549. Calvin appears , by his letters , to have been ex- tremely afflicted for the lofs of her , and never married ...
... She had fome children by her firft hufband , and bore Calvin one fon , who died foon after his birth . The mother died in 1549. Calvin appears , by his letters , to have been ex- tremely afflicted for the lofs of her , and never married ...
Page 63
... She was three days in labour , and they were forced at last to cut the child from her . He was born with his head co- vered with black curled hair . When he was four years old he was carried to Milan : his father was an advocate in ...
... She was three days in labour , and they were forced at last to cut the child from her . He was born with his head co- vered with black curled hair . When he was four years old he was carried to Milan : his father was an advocate in ...
Page 75
... She purposed likewife to fix him in Sweden , by al- lowing him a revenue of three thousand crowns a year , with an eftate which fhould defcend to his heirs and affigns for ever , and to establish an academy , of which he was to be ...
... She purposed likewife to fix him in Sweden , by al- lowing him a revenue of three thousand crowns a year , with an eftate which fhould defcend to his heirs and affigns for ever , and to establish an academy , of which he was to be ...
Page 103
... She brought him a fon and two daughters , and then died ; having lived no more than four years with him . The epitaph he made on her , may ferve for a specimen of his fkill in this fort of compofition . Non ego nunc vivo , conjux ...
... She brought him a fon and two daughters , and then died ; having lived no more than four years with him . The epitaph he made on her , may ferve for a specimen of his fkill in this fort of compofition . Non ego nunc vivo , conjux ...
Page 112
... She was of fuch an hea- venly make , and made fo prodigious an advancement in pie- ty and devotion , that he is reported to have feen a multi- tude of vifions , and to have wrought as many miracles , when he was not near grown up a ...
... She was of fuch an hea- venly make , and made fo prodigious an advancement in pie- ty and devotion , that he is reported to have feen a multi- tude of vifions , and to have wrought as many miracles , when he was not near grown up a ...
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Popular passages
Page 445 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Page 371 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 172 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 81 - O Pallas ! thou hast fail'd thy plighted word, To fight with caution, not to tempt the sword : I warn'd thee, but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ardour would pursue ; That boiling blood would carry thee too far, Young as thou wert in dangers, raw to war ! O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom, Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come...
Page 410 - I do declare and promise, that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England, as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Page 173 - Chaucer's side ; for though the Englishman has borrowed many tales from the Italian, yet it appears that those of Boccace were not generally of his own making, but taken from authors of former ages, and by him only modelled ; so that what there was of invention in either of them, may be judged equal.
Page 171 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Page 488 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Page 172 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine; but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Page 83 - He was a great cherisher of wit and fancy and good parts in any man; and, if he found them clouded with poverty or want, a most liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even above his fortune...