The Greatest House at ChelseyJohn Lane, 1914 - 235 pàgines |
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Bacon Beaufort House Bucking Bulstrode Whitelocke Cain and Abel Chamber Chelsea House Church Countess Court Cranfield Cromwell daughter desire doth Duchess Duke of Beaufort Earl of Lincoln Earl of Middlesex England excellent father favour friends garden gate gentlemen Gilbert Pickering give Grace hand hath Henry Holbein honour hope house at Chelsea Howard husband Inigo Jones John King King's Knole Lady Dacre late leave letter Lincoln lived London Lord Treasurer lordship Majesty Manor MARGARET ROPER Marquis marriage married master mentioned messuage More's never night noble occasion Ormonde Parish Parliament person pray Prince Queen quoth ready replied Roper sent servant Shebna Sir Arthur Gorges Sir Hans Sloane Sir Robert Cecil Sir Thomas speak Spenser sweet tell things thought unto wherein Whitelocke wife writes York House young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 180 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Pàgina 19 - ... perfectly, as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Pàgina 170 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy, Railing, and praising, were his usual themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes: So over-violent, or over-civil, That every man with him was god or devil.
Pàgina 19 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Pàgina 169 - Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pàgina 170 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late: He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Pàgina 18 - Her parents, the Duke and Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her in her chamber, reading " Phaedon Platonis " in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace.
Pàgina 169 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pàgina 16 - ... ye may then discharge us of them, but I would not that any man were...
Pàgina 224 - You will scarce guess how I employ my time ; chiefly at present in the guardianship of embryos and cockleshells. Sir Hans Sloane is dead, and has made me one of the trustees to his museum \ which is to be offered for twenty thousand pounds to the King, the Parliament, the Royal Academies of Petersburgh, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid.