My Ancestors: Being the History of the Digby & Strutt Families

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Priv. print. by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, 1928 - 173 頁
 

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第 34 頁 - Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon. With great parts, he always hurt himself and his friends ; with romantic bravery, he was always an unsuccessful commander. He spoke for the test act, though a Roman catholic ; and addicted himself to astrology, on the birth-day of true philosophy.
第 141 頁 - THE sun is hidden from our sight, The birds are sleeping sound ; 'Tis time to say to all, " Good night !
第 142 頁 - Good night, ye merry, merry birds, Sleep well till morning light ; Perhaps if you could sing in words, You would have said,
第 61 頁 - Who knew no wish but what the world might hear : Of softest manners, unaffected mind, Lover of peace, and friend of human kind: Go live ! for Heaven's eternal year is thine, Go, and exalt thy mortal to divine.
第 17 頁 - Digby, that renowned knight, great linguist, and magazine of arts, was born and died on the eleventh of June, and also fought fortunately at Scanderoon the same day. Hear his epitaph, composed by Mr. Ferrar, and recited in the aforesaid Memoirs : Under this stone the matchless Digby lies, Digby the great, the valiant and the wise : This age's wonder for his noble parts ; Skill'd in six tongues, and learn'd in all the arts. Born on the day he died, th' eleventh of June, On which he bravely fought...
第 15 頁 - T' obey, and serve her sweet commandements. She was in one a many parts of life ; A tender mother, a discreeter wife, A solemn mistress, and so good a friend, So charitable to...
第 142 頁 - To all my pretty flowers, good night ! You blossom while I sleep ; And all the stars that shine so bright, With you their watches keep. The moon is lighting up the skies, The stars are sparkling there ; Tis time to shut our weary eyes, And say our evening prayer.
第 38 頁 - I must clearly tell you, both you and I have been abused in this business ; for you have been drawn to consent to conditions much beyond your instructions, and your treaty hath been divulged to all the world. If you had advised with my lord lieutenant, as you promised me, all this had been helped.
第 75 頁 - Robin and I are two honest men. He is for King George, and I for King James ; but those men with long cravats (meaning Sandys, Sir John Rushout, Gibbon, and others) only desire places, either under King George or King James.
第 81 頁 - Yes, masters," exclaimed the fellow, with an oath, " but he is not a man ; he is an angel ; for he comes here twice a ye»r, sometimes oftener, and yets a number of prisoners free.

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