The Best in Their KindRichards Press, 1949 - 456 pages |
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Page 123
... talking a while , I betimes to bed , having had no quiet rest a good while . 6th . - Up betimes , and with Sir D ... talk of my well speaking ; and many of the Lords there . My Lord Barkeley did cry me up for what they have heard of ...
... talking a while , I betimes to bed , having had no quiet rest a good while . 6th . - Up betimes , and with Sir D ... talk of my well speaking ; and many of the Lords there . My Lord Barkeley did cry me up for what they have heard of ...
Page 176
... talk . As he said , he did not talk from books but from experience that was often bitter . Here is a selection calculated to stimulate argument and to help us in the art of living . 1. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures . 2. My dear ...
... talk . As he said , he did not talk from books but from experience that was often bitter . Here is a selection calculated to stimulate argument and to help us in the art of living . 1. No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures . 2. My dear ...
Page 197
... talk they would talk like whales " which shows shrewd observation , and Reynolds said of him that there was no man whose company was more liked . " Let not his frailties be remembered , " wrote Johnson , " he was a very great man . " In ...
... talk they would talk like whales " which shows shrewd observation , and Reynolds said of him that there was no man whose company was more liked . " Let not his frailties be remembered , " wrote Johnson , " he was a very great man . " In ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS MALORY 1413?1470 | 18 |
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 24 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 15641593 | 38 |
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