A Tour in Quest of Genealogy: Through Several Parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in Dublin; Interspersed with a Description of Stourhead and Stonehenge; Together with Various Anecdotes, and Curious Fragments from a Manuscript Collection Ascribed to Shakespeare

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150 ページ - Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, First be he true, for truth doth truth deserve : Then such be he, as she his worth may see, And one man still credit with her preserve. Not toying kind, nor causelessly unkind, Not stirring thoughts, nor yet denying right, Not spying faults, nor in plain errors blind, Never hard hand, nor ever reins too light. As far from want, as far from vain expense (The one doth force, the latter doth entice) Allow good company, but keep from thence All filthy mouths...
197 ページ - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders ; to him we owe the origin of juries, and the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher, and a Christian ; the father of his people, and the founder of the English monarchy and liberties.
270 ページ - For within the current of the ditch," he says, " there are erected in manner of a crown, in three ranks or courses, one within another, certain mighty and unwrought stones, whereof some are 28 feet...
233 ページ - By thee a vyllage maiden found, No eare had I for measured sounde ; To dresse the fleese that Willie wrought. Was all I knewe, was all I sought. At tbie softe lure too quicke I flewe, Enamou...
187 ページ - Cuffe, &c. ; part oi a journal, like most journals, carried on for a month together, then suspended during a period of four or five years ; and memoirs of his own time written by himself. Some of the items are uncommonly curious, as they give you not only the costume of the age he lived in, but let you into his private and domestic life, and the rudiments of his vast conception.
191 ページ - Rawleigh, at Iselinton, where that great man shut in, often regales himself with a pipe of his new plant called tibacca...
207 ページ - Nymph of the Grot, these sacred Springs I keep, And to the Murmur of these Waters sleep ; Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave ! And drink in silence, or in silence lave ! You'll think I have been very Poetical in this Description, but it is pretty near the Truth.
187 ページ - Among the fragments ascribed to Shakespeare, I have been much struck with several of the little poetical pieces, full of quaint and brilliant conceits, and smacking strongly of the great dramatist's playful manner. But the most interesting portion of it consists of letters that passed between him, Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir Philip Sidney, Lord Southampton, Richard Sadleir, Henry Cuffe, &c. part of a journal, like most journals, carried on for a month together, then suspended during a period of four...
29 ページ - I was informed, very little more to pay for his lodgings, which he had occupied for three months only. He was a stranger, had something eccentric and mysterious about him, passed off for an Irishman, but was suspected to have been one from North Wales. I bought two or three printed books, and one manuscript quarto volume, neatly written^ importing to be verses and letters that passed between Shakespeare and Anna Hatheway whom he married, as well as letters to.

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