Sir Kenelm Digby and George Digby, Earl of Bristol

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Digby, Long & Company, 1912 - 286 páginas
 

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Página 81 - ... him ; but in case he found no ease, I wished him to come presently back again ; if not, he might forbear coming. Thereupon he went ; and at the instant I did put again the garter into the water, thereupon he found his master without any pain at all. To be brief, there was no sense of pain afterward ; but within five or six dayes the wounds were cicatrized, and entirely healed,
Página 80 - This was presently reported to the Duke of Buckingham, and a little after to the king, who were both very curious to know the...
Página 146 - Digby, that renowned knight, great linguist, and magazine of arts, was born and died on the eleventh of June, and also fought fortunately at Scanderoon the same day. Hear his epitaph, composed by Mr. Ferrar, and recited in the aforesaid Memoirs : Under this stone the matchless Digby lies, Digby the great, the valiant and the wise : This age's wonder for his noble parts ; Skill'd in six tongues, and learn'd in all the arts. Born on the day he died, th' eleventh of June, On which he bravely fought...
Página 80 - Howel did, who stood talking with a gentleman in a corner of my chamber, not regarding at all what I was doing ; but he started suddenly, as if he had found some strange alteration in himself. I asked him what he ailed? ' I know not what ails me; but I finde that I feel no more pain.
Página 80 - I know not what ails me, but I find that I feel no more pain ; methinks that a pleasing kind of freshness, as it were a wet cold napkin did spread over my hand, which hath taken away the inflammation that tormented me before...
Página 283 - He wrote against Popery, and embraced it; he was a zealous opposer of the court, and a sacrifice for it ; was conscientiously converted in the midst of his prosecution of Lord Strafford, and was most unconscientiously a prosecutor of Lord Clarendon.
Página 47 - Villain, thou liest, thou hast done me wrong which cannot be satisfied with less than thy life...
Página 175 - I will not insist long upon this ground of difference in me now from what I was formerly. The truth of it is, sir, the same ground whereupon I with the rest of the few to whom you first committed the consideration of my Lord...
Página 171 - YOU have received now a solemn account from the most of the shires of England, of the several grievances and oppressions they sustain, and nothing as yet from Dorsetshire. Sir, I would not have you think that I serve for a land of Goshen, that we live there in sunshine, whilst darkness and plagues overspread the rest of the land : As little would I have you think, that, being under the same sharp measure...
Página 152 - He had," continues the same author, " so graceful an elocution and noble address that, had he been dropped out of the clouds into any part of the world, he would have made himself respected ; but the Jesuits, who cared not for him, spoke spitefully and said it was true.

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