Lancashire WorthiesSimpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1874 - 469 pages |
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... important acquisition in Cheshire was made by the marriage of another William de Stanley , a descendant of the foregoing ( he died 6 Hen . VI . ) , to the heiress of Hooton , half - way or so between Chester and 2 LANCASHIRE worthies .
... important acquisition in Cheshire was made by the marriage of another William de Stanley , a descendant of the foregoing ( he died 6 Hen . VI . ) , to the heiress of Hooton , half - way or so between Chester and 2 LANCASHIRE worthies .
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... important commission , which included the safe custody and the delivery to Henry of two of his own brothers - in - law , among other persons . On the 13th of July 1460 , less than a year after the battle of Bloreheath , he is ordered by ...
... important commission , which included the safe custody and the delivery to Henry of two of his own brothers - in - law , among other persons . On the 13th of July 1460 , less than a year after the battle of Bloreheath , he is ordered by ...
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... importance in English history . He lived in a turbulent age , of civil war , of violent dynastic change and unexampled political and social vicissitude , when no man of station felt his head safe on his shoulders , when life and ...
... importance in English history . He lived in a turbulent age , of civil war , of violent dynastic change and unexampled political and social vicissitude , when no man of station felt his head safe on his shoulders , when life and ...
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... important charge of superintending his education ; " and while this young royal gentleman was in her care , " we find her , " it is added , 1 " associating with him under her roof her young kinsman , afterwards Sir John St John , father ...
... important charge of superintending his education ; " and while this young royal gentleman was in her care , " we find her , " it is added , 1 " associating with him under her roof her young kinsman , afterwards Sir John St John , father ...
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... importance in the reigns of Henry VIII . and Edward VI . Bradford's " activity in writings , " and " expertness in the art of auditors , " according to one of his old biographers , did much recommend him to Sir John , who made him ...
... importance in the reigns of Henry VIII . and Edward VI . Bradford's " activity in writings , " and " expertness in the art of auditors , " according to one of his old biographers , did much recommend him to Sir John , who made him ...
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Page 262 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or...
Page 213 - I believe you have heard, that after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the Box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas ; in acknowledgment (as he expressed it) for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator 7.
Page 47 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swell'd the gale, And — STANLEY! was the cry; — A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye: With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on I'* Were the last words of Marmion.
Page 46 - Surrey hie; Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Page 46 - Rushed with bare bosom on the spear, And flung the feeble targe aside, And with both hands the broadsword plied, 'Twas vain: — But Fortune, on the right, With fickle smile, cheered Scotland's fight.
Page 18 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 468 - ... distribution of the different members of the apparatus into one co-operative body, in impelling each organ with its appropriate delicacy and speed, and above all, in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton.
Page 217 - Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.' Strange all this difference should be Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Page 237 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.