Studies Re-studied: Historical Sketches from Original Sources

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第 328 頁 - In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.
第 327 頁 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
第 176 頁 - As for me, I am no more yours, nor you mine. Death hath cut us asunder, and God hath divided me from the world, and you from me.
第 256 頁 - Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
第 367 頁 - Pray, madam, let this farce be played : the Archbishop will act it very well. You may bid him be as short as you will. It will do the Queen no hurt, no more than any good ; and it will satisfy all the wise and good fools, who will call us all atheists if we don't pretend to be as great fools as they are.
第 114 頁 - What a strange thing is man ! and what a stranger Is woman ! What a whirlwind is her head, And what a whirlpool full of depth and danger Is all the rest about her ! Whether wed, Or widow, maid, or mother, she can change her Mind like the wind : whatever she has said Or done, is light to what she'll say or do ; — The oldest thing on record, and yet new ! LXV.
第 328 頁 - Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart. Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board. Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord...
第 174 頁 - I never prac* tised with Spain by your procurement ; God so comfort me in this * my affliction, as you are a true subject, for anything that I know. * I will say as Daniel, Purus sum a sanguine hujus. So God have * mercy upon my soul, as I know no treason by you ! Ralegh.
第 350 頁 - At a quarter before eleven she was delivered of a little rat of a girl, about the bigness of a good large toothpick case...
第 196 頁 - For lo ! destruction is no recompense. If I have sold my duty, sold my faith To strangers, which was only due to One ; Nothing I should esteem so dear as death. But if both God and Time shall make you know That I, your humblest vassal, am...

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