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Page 15 - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever ! — I know when one is dead, and when one lives ; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
Page 50 - Sir, I have now in my cellar ten tun of the best ale in Staffordshire ; 'tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy; and will be just fourteen year old the fifth day of next March, old style.
Page 73 - Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate...
Page 56 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
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Page 43 - ... there is no drink conduceth more to the preservation of the one and the increase of the other than ale, for while the Englishmen drank only ale, they were strong brawny able men, and could draw an arrow an ell long ; but. when they fell to wine and beer, they are found to be much impaired in their strength and age. So the ale bore away the bell among the doctors.
Page 41 - Christians, and were so denominated from the churchwardens buying, and lay. ing in from presents also, a large quantity of malt, which they brewed into beer, and sold out in the church or elsewhere. The profits, as well as those from sundry games, there being no poor rates, were given to the poor, for whom this was one mode of provision, according to the Christian rulo that all festivities should be rendered innocent by alms.
Page 60 - Trade, indeed, increases the wealth and glory of a country ; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
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