The Original Works of William King ...: Now First Collected ... With Historical Notes, and Memoirs of the Author, Volume 2 |
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ORIGINAL WORKS OF WILLIAM KING William 1663-1712 King,John 1745-1826 Nichols No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 270 - Yea, the waters had drowned us : and the ftream had gone over our foul. 4 The deep waters of the proud : had gone even over our foul. 5 But praifed be the Lord : who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.
Page 261 - I said I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not with my tongue...
Page 147 - Brave souls to be renowned in story. Honour prizing, Death despising, Fame acquiring, By expiring ; Die, and reap the fruit of glory, Brave souls, to be renowned in story.
Page 2 - They are so little versed in the world, that they scarce know a horse from an ox ; but at the same time will tell you, with a great deal of gravity, that a flea is a rhinoceros, and a snail an hermaphrodite. I have...
Page 262 - THIRTEENTH (the) chapter to the Romans, vindicated from the abusive senses put upon it. Written by a curate of Salop ; and directed to the clergy of that county, and the neighbouring ones of North Wales ; to whom the author wisheth patience, moderation, and a good understanding for half an hour.
Page 32 - I might be between ten and twelve ; for,' faid he, ' I was fent to Northallerton with a horfe-load of arrows, but they fent a bigger boy from thence to the army with them.
Page 45 - In the Motion of this Earth, it drew after it the Body of the Bog, part of it lying on the Place where the...
Page 185 - This champion of the Presbyterians was the common butt of men of every other religion, and of those who were of no religion at all. But this had very little effect upon him : his presence and his firmness of mind on no occasion forsook him.
Page 185 - Progress gives us a clear and distinct idea of Calvinistical divinity. The allegory is admirably carried on, and the characters justly drawn, and uniformly supported. The Author's original and poetic genius shines through the coarseness and vulgarity of his language, and intimates, that, if he had been a master of numbers, he might have composed a poem worthy of Spenser himself.