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Page 4 - E'en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free, As firm in friendship, and as fond in love, — Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, (Twas e'en to thee,) yet, the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids the pure in heart behold their God.
Page 104 - A New A'nalysis of Chronology, in which an attempt is made to explain the History and Antiquities of the primitive Nations of the World, and the prophecies relating to them, on principles tending to remove the imperfection and discordance of preceding systems.
Page 262 - Notwithstanding it treateth of the birth, life, and acts of the said King Arthur, of his noble knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the Sangreal, and in the end the dolorous death and departing out of this world of them all.
Page 244 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 302 - Ballard, and dated Wapping, June 30, 1743: "I cannot forbear telling you "of my good success in buying at " lord Oxford's sale the phoenix of " the whole library ; I mean the first " English Testament that ever was " printed in the year 1526. It has " been thought no perfect one was left
Page 300 - CastelTs niece and executrix, in a room of one of her tenant's houses at Martin, in Surrey, where, for many years, they lay at the mercy of the rats, who made such havock among them, that when they came into the possession of this lady's executors, scarcely one complete volume could be formed out of the remainder, and the whole load of learned rags sold only fc/ seven pounds.
Page 18 - The curious and learned critic will be highly gratified by several circumstances, recorded in this volume, respecting classical authors, in the illustration of whom Casaubon had been engaged. Bentley, it has been said, was indulged with the use of this volume. It was probably...
Page 201 - Christ./ Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best ap-/proued translations./ With the arguments, aswel before the chapters, as for euery Boke/ & Epistle, also diuersities of readings, and moste proffitable/ annotations of all harde places : wherunto is added a copi-/ous Table./ At Geneva!
Page 91 - Hall in the College of DURHAM, for the Use of the Dean and Prebendaries of the said Cathedral Church. And if it should please God that I do not live to finish the same, my will and Pleasure is, that my Executor, hereafter named shall pay out of my personal Estate, all such Sum or Sums of Money, as shall be necessary for the finishing thereof...
Page 277 - The author, of whom nothing more is known, was one R. Wever, as appears from the colophon. " Finis, quod R. Wever. Imprinted at London in Paules churche yarde by Abraham Vele at the signe of the Lambe.