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Tinsley brothers, 1897
 

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Página 184 - King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown; He held them sixpence all too dear, With that he call'd the tailor lown. He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Página 182 - I bought thee petticoats of the best, The cloth so fine as fine might be: I gave thee jewels for thy chest, And all this cost I spent on thee.
Página 174 - ... they put on his old robes, and so conveyed him to the place where they first found him. Now the...
Página 187 - Thus while I wond'ring pause o'er Shakspeare's page, I mark, in visions of delight, the Sage, High o'er the wrecks of man, who stands sublime; A Column in the melancholy Waste, (Its cities humbled, and its glories past) Majestic, 'mid the solitude of Time.
Página 181 - Greensleeves. Alas, my Love! ye do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.
Página 182 - Alas, my Love! ye do me wrong To cast me off discourteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. Greensleeves was all my joy, etc. I have been ready at your hand, To grant whatever you would crave: I have both waged life and land, Your love and goodwill for to have.
Página 183 - And let me the canakin clink, clink; And let me the canakin clink A soldier's a man; A life's but a span; Why, then, let a soldier drink.
Página 169 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 169 - ... the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion.
Página 173 - ... he caused his followers to bring him to his palace, and there stripping him of his old cloaths, and attiring him after the court fashion, when he waked, he and they were all ready to attend upon his excellency, perswading him he was some great duke.

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