Peregrine Bunce: Or, Settled at Last

כריכה קדמית
R. Bentley, 1842
 

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עמוד 80 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin. Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly. Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose.
עמוד 79 - A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss...
עמוד 105 - WITH Face and Fashion to be known, For one of sure Election, With Eyes all white, and many a Groan, With Neck aside to draw in Tone, With Harp in 's Nose, or he is none.
עמוד 168 - King of England, after he had escaped the swords of his merciless rebels, and his forces received a fatal overthrow at Worcester, September the 3d, 1651, was faithfully preserved and conveyed to France, departed this life the 26th day of July, 1674.
עמוד 57 - And still, at our yeoman's table, you shall have as many joints as dishes ; no meat disguised with strange sauces ; no straggling joint of a sheep in the midst of a pasture of grass, beset with salads on every side, but solid, substantial food. No servitors (more nimble with their hands than the guests with their teeth) take away meat before stomachs are taken away. Here you have that which in itself is good, made better by the store of it, and best by the welcome to it.
עמוד 161 - Gaius, runs to the King, catcheth his hand and kissing it, said: 'It shall not be said but I have kissed the best man's hand in England.
עמוד 128 - When the wind is in the East, Tis neither good for man nor beast; When the wind is in the North, The skilful fisher goes not forth; When the wind is in the South, It blows the bait in the fishes' mouth; When the wind is in the West, Then 'tis at the very best.
עמוד 57 - In his house he is bountiful both to strangers and to poor people. Some hold when hospitality died in England, she gave her last groan among the yeomen of Kent. And still, at our yeoman's table you shall have as many joints as dishes; no meat disguised with strange sauces; no straggling joint of a sheep in the midst of a pasture of grass...
עמוד 79 - Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was gain, The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking train.
עמוד 163 - ... and the tyde had forsaken it ; soe that it was on ground. It is observable that all the whyle this busines had beene in agitation to this very tyme the wind had been contrarie.

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