The Essex notebook and Suffolk gleaner

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1884
 

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Seite 112 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Seite 86 - Behold and see, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Seite 29 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Seite 131 - John Noakes and Mary Styles, a Poem, exhibiting some of the most striking lingual localisms peculiar to Essex, with a Glossary, by CHARLES CLARK, Esq. of Great Totham Hall, Essex, post 8vo. cloth, 2s " The poem possesses considerable humour."— Tait's Mag.
Seite 99 - On the obverse the king was represented standing in a ship with a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left. This was to betoken his naval supremacy. The reverse bore the inscription " IHC autem transiens per medium illorum ibat," no doubt in allusion to the preservation of the royal person throughout the battle.
Seite 74 - ... bade him to make it of the same fashion, that the knight would have his made of. Not long after the knight coming to the...
Seite 23 - That the gentlemen whose names are appended be requested to act as a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of carrying out the previous resolution and of reporting to an adjourned public meeting to be held during the second week in October next.
Seite 89 - Scots ambassador being introduced to Sir Francis Walsingham, had a private audience of her majesty, to whom he delivered a letter from the king his master ; containing the most cordial assurances of his resolution to adhere to her majesty's interests, and to those of the protestant religion.
Seite 61 - By him then learn thou may'st; here learn we must, When all is done, we sleep, and turn to dust: And yet through Christ to heaven we hope to go ; Who reads his books, shall find his faith was so.
Seite 74 - I AM an Englishman; and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind, What raiment I shall wear? For now, I will wear this! and now, I will wear that! Now, I will wear, I cannot tell what!

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