A Book of Scotish Pasquils

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James Maidment
W. Paterson, 1868 - 438 páginas
 

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Página 319 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 156 - To Banbury came I, O profane one ! Where I saw a Puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Página 123 - And dare then any Christian women be so more then whorishly impudent, as to act, to speake publikely on a Stage (perchance in mans apparell, and cut haire, here proved sinfull and abominable) in the presence of sundry men and women?
Página 234 - em cruel and fair; Which justly provokes me in rhime to express The truth that I know of bonny black Bess." This Bess of my heart, this Bess of my soul, Has a skin white as milk, and hair black as...
Página 167 - At the outgoing of the church, about thirty or forty of our honestest women, in one voice, before the bishop and magistrates, fell a railing, cursing, scolding, with clamours, on Mr. William Annan. Some two of the meanest were taken to the tolbooth.
Página 361 - Betwixt man and man, where he had no particular concern, he was just, but extremely partial where his friend or his own politics interfered. He had a sound, solid judgment, but all his actions were accompanied with so much pride, vanity, ill-nature, and severity. But he was odious to everybody.
Página 399 - Thomas, Earl of Wharton, lord lieutenant of Ireland, by the force of a wonderful constitution, has some years passed his grand climacteric, without any visible effects of old age, either on his body or his mind; and in spite of a continual prostitution to those vices, which usually wear out both. His behaviour is in all the forms of a young man at five-and-twenty. Whether he walks, or whistles, or swears, or talks bawdy, or calls names, he acquits himself in each, beyond a templar of three years...
Página 142 - The. grand Impostor discovered ; or an historical Dispute of the Papacy and Popish Religion : part I.
Página 299 - An Account of Scotland's Grievances by reason of the Duke of Lauderdale's Ministry, humbly tendered to his Sacred Majesty.
Página 399 - Whether he walks, or whistles, or swears, or talks bawdy, or calls names, he acquits himself in each, beyond a templar of three years standing. -With the same grace, and in the same style, he will rattle his coachman in the midst of the street, where he is governor of the kingdom ; and all this is without consequence, because it is in his character, and what every body expects.

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