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Page 47 - FAREWELL, and adieu to you Spanish ladies, Farewell, and adieu to you ladies of Spain ! For we've received orders for to sail for old England, But we hope in a short time to see you again.
Page 114 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 113 - And fare thee well, George Collingwood, Since fate has put Us down ; If thou and I have lost our lives, Our king has lost his crown.
Page 125 - To learning and to loyalty were bred : For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend.
Page 305 - THE END. LONDON: Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street. TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. MAMMON, BY MRS GORE. " The most lively and entertaining novel Mrs. Gore has yet written.
Page 175 - ... Brag of her worth, she should insult ore them, Wherefore they 'greed to have an equall right, That they of her perfection part might claime : Pallas gave wisdome, Juno statelinesse, And the milde Morning gave her modestie; The Graces cariage, Venus lovelinesse, And chaste Diana choisest chastitieThus heaven <and earth their powers did combine To make her perfect, kind love made her mine.
Page 113 - 0 lang, lang shall his lady Look frae the castle doune, Ere she sees the Earl of Murray Come sounding through the town!' What a gallop in the brief little song which tells the fate of some * bonnie George Campbell...
Page 94 - De gustibus nil disputandum," for he compares the hair of his beloved to a flock of goats appearing from Mount Gilead, and in a strain of enamoured flattery exclaims, " Thy eyes are like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim ; thy nose like the tower of Lebanon looking towards Damascus.
Page 68 - ... Conyers, when no longer a youngster, bless the fortune which gave him an early friend, who fed all that was positive, and fresh, and tender in him, and did not make the green leaves of his nature shiver and curl up in the cold air of doubt, or spot them with the slimy droppings of a sneering tongue. " Even ambition is wanting in the youth of the new generation. They shake their wise heads, and ask, What does it matter? Talk to them of fame, and they sneer. Talk to them of love, and they sneer...
Page 130 - ... though not himself a gouty subject until late in life, wrote an ode on the subject, in his young days, learnedly descriptive, and containing this characteristic passage, Unhappy whom to beds of pain Arthritic tyranny consigns. ) A martyr to gout? sneers one of Mr. Hannay's sayers of smart things : " That's a suffering in which one becomes a martyr without having the renown of a saint.