Epistolae Ho-Elianae: The Familiar Letters, Volume 1

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D. Stott, 1891
 

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Page 167 - Melford, tho' it be not so great, yet it is so well compacted and eontriv'd with such dainty conveniences every way, that if you saw the landskip of it, you would be mightily taken with it, and it would serve for a choice pattern to build and contrive a house by.
Page 135 - At last, being come to the conclusion, which was (after all his railing), — ' Now God preserve the King, the Queen, the peers, And grant the Author long may wear his ears ; ' this pleased his Majesty so well, that he broke into a laughter, and said, ' By my soul, so thou shalt, for me. Thou art a bitter, but thou art a witty knave...
Page 135 - England the rogue should hang for it, at last being come to the conclusion, which was (after all his railing) : Now God preserve the King, the Queen, the peers, And grant the author long may wear his ears.
Page 2 - ... indeed we should write as we speak ; and that's a true familiar letter which expresseth one's mind, as if he were discoursing with the party to whom he writes, in succinct and short terms.
Page 11 - I send this paper for my deputy. The news that keeps greatest noise here now, is the return of Sir Walter Raleigh from his mine...
Page 80 - England, do half roast us here ; those beams that irradiate only and gild your honey-suckle fields, do scorch and parch this chinky gaping soil, and so put too many wrinkles upon the face of our common mother the earth. O blessed clime, O happy England, where there is such a rare temperature of heat and cold...
Page 68 - New-bridge, and hung him his Heels upwards and Head downwards upon a new Gibbet, that had been set up a little before, to punish them who should speak ill of the present Government ; and it was his Chance to have the Maidenhead of it himself. His Wife was hereupon apprehended...
Page 302 - Parliament men of my acquaintance, but one morning betimes there rushed into my chamber five armed men with swords, pistols and bills, and told me they had a warrant from the Parliament - for me. I desired to see their warrant, they denied it ; I desired to see the date of it, they denied it ; I desired to see my name in the warrant, they denied all ; at last one of them pulled a greasy paper out of his pocket, and showed me only three or four names subscribed, and no more.
Page 267 - I rather pity than hate Turk or Infidel, for they are of the same metal, and bear the same stamp as I do, though the inscriptions differ. If I hate any, it is those schismatics that puzzle the sweet peace of our church ; so that I could be content to see an Anabaptist go to hell on a Brownist's back.
Page 128 - She who tamed the world tamed herself at last, and falling under her own weight, fell to be a prey to time ; yet there is a providence seems to have a care of her still ; for though her air be not so good, nor her circumjacent soil so kindly as it was...

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