Book-platesKegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1897 - 240 oldal |
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78. oldal - THE King observing with judicious eyes The state of both his universities, To one he sent a regiment : for why ? That learned body wanted loyalty. To th' other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
174. oldal - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
161. oldal - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign. Sails the unshadowed main, — • The venturous bark that flings^ On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pea"rl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell. As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,...
78. oldal - The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
182. oldal - I must go see his excellency, 'tis a noble advancement : but they could do no less, after sending him to France. Lord Strafford is as proud as Hell, and how he will bear one of Prior's mean birth on an equal character with him, I know not.
151. oldal - Thomas Penn of Stoke Pogeis, in the county of Bucks, first proprietor of Pensilvania (sic).
167. oldal - Gentle reader, take me home; I belong to John Marks, 20 Cork Street, Cork." Caveats vary from the gentle reminder of Michael Lilienthal (translated from the Latin by Hardy ) : Use this book, but let no one misuse it; The bee does not stain lilies but only touches them.
172. oldal - Forget not, pray, when it you ve read, to whom this book belongs. Than one Charles Clark,* of Totham Hall, none to'ta right hath better, A wight that same, more read than some in the lore of old W<zci-letter.
170. oldal - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me.
163. oldal - My Master's name above you see, Take heede ther fore you steale not mee ; For if you doe, without delay Your necke for me shall pay. Looke doune below and you shal see The picture of the gallowstree ; Take heede ther fore of thys in time, Lest on this tree you highly clime.