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Joseph Hall
Clarendon Press, 1920
 

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Page 311 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 507 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 422 - Eripe me de luto, ut non infigar : * libera me ab iis qui oderunt me, et de profundis aquarum. Non me demergat tempestas aquae, neque absorbeat me profundum : * neque urgeat super me puteus os suum.
Page 244 - Quoniam Angelis suis mandavit de te ; * ut custodiant te in omnibus viis tuis. In manibus portabunt te : * ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
Page 300 - The ferthe seide, that he is wod That dwelleth to muchel in the flod, For gold or for auhte ; For gold or silver, or any wele, Hunger or thurst, hete or chele, Al shal gon to nohte. Nu wille is red, Wit is qued, And god is ded. For wille is red, the lond is wrecful ; For wit is qued, the lond is wrongful ; For god is ded, the lond is sinful. Wid wordes...
Page 296 - I understonde Ne may no king wel ben in londe, Under God Almihte, But he cunne himself rede, Hou he shal in londe lede Everi man wid rihte. For might is riht, Liht is night, And fiht is fliht.
Page 228 - Sicut aquila provocans ad volandum pullos suos et super eos volitans expandit alas suas et assumpsit eum atque portavit in humeris SUÍS.
Page 377 - Credulous of evil, ready to receive malicious reports. 90-91. hog . . . prey] WRIGHT: Mr Skeat has pointed out to me that in the Ancren Riwle, p. 198, the seven deadly sins are typified by seven wild animals ; the lion being the type of pride, the serpent of envy, the unicorn of wrath, the bear of sloth, the fox of covetousness, the swine of greediness, and the scorpion of lust.
Page 244 - Dixit Dominus Domino meo: Sede a dextris meis, donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.
Page 244 - In sole posuit tabernaculum suum : * et ipse tamquam sponsus procedens de thalamo suo.

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