Yet keep no followers of that hateful brood That basely mingles with its wholesome food The tumid reptile, which, the poet said, Doth wear a precious jewel in his head.
While others enlarge on the boiled and the roast, He serves a raw clergyman up with a toast, Or catches some doctor, quite tender and young, And basely insists on a bit of his tongue.
The gates of the palace and city were instantly shut: the strictest orders were despatched into the provinces, for the recovery of the fugitive; and his wife, on the suspicion of a pious act, was basely imprisoned in the same tower.
In this ignoble warfare, the hero, invincible against the power of the Barbarians, was basely vanquished by the delay, the disobedience, and the cowardice of his own officers.
Your name will never be repeated with admiration without recalling those inglorious warriors so basely leagued against a single man.
The kingdom of Frederick the Great was not, however, obliterated from the map, because the Emperor of Russia would not basely abandon a faithful ally who had incurred with him the chances of fortune.
The city soon fell into the hands of Vlademer, and Yaropolk, basely betrayed by one of his generals, was assassinated by two officers of Vlademer, acting under his authority.
But me more good, to see so great a lord Basely insinuate and send us gifts.
As thus terminated the revery of a man whom the social circumstances of the world were calculated, as if by system, to render eminently and basely wicked, Welford slowly ascended the stairs, and re-entered his chamber.
Athelwold had basely deceived him, and his new-born love for the wife was mingled with a fierce desire for revenge upon the husband.
Whatever happens, it shall never be said of Tostig that he basely gave up the friend who had helped him in time of need.
Better, a thousand times, he thought, be basely born than the son of an outlaw!
In his return by sea from an unfortunate crusade, Louis the Seventh was intercepted by the Greeks, who basely violated the laws of honor and religion.
Francis, having basely abandoned his former allies, was left alone to combat the gigantic power of a rival between two portions of whose dominions his own kingdom lay exposed.
The testimony which stirred up the bile of the holy fathers could not but be given, unless you had been willing basely to tergiversate and to expose yourself to their taunts.
Tristan de Moneins, lieutenant of the King of Navarre, had been basely murdered by the citizens: they were now compelled to disinter his remains, being allowed the use of no implements, but compelled to scrape off the earth with their nails!
A month later Calvin wrote to Garnier: "D'Andelot, the nephew of the constable, has basely deceived our expectations.
But, my dear, the charge is basely false: we have not agreed upon any such way of life.
But baselyyielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
And then how basely he had repaid her and betrayed her, and brought his friends to laugh at her, as he had brought this woman of fashion now!
They had not basely deserted their colours; it was cold and inanition which had separated them from their columns.
For to them of noble breeding to live basely is a shame.
For think howbasely this woman slew her husband, his father.
Wherefore I shall have among them a double reproach, being both basely born and also a foreigner.
He even published some letters reflecting very severely on the conduct of d'Estaing, and asserted that the Americans had been basely abandoned by their new allies.
No people had ever been more basely deceived by princes than the Germans.
Will knights of Malta be in league with Turks, And buy it basely too for sums of gold?
And will youbasely thus submit yourselves To leave your goods to their arbitrement?
Well do I remember that thou, the betrothed of the Demagogue's sister, didst not join with my uncle and my father of old, but didst basely leave the city to her plebeian tyrant.
In our degenerate time and land, thy sex and ours forget too basely what foulness writes a leprosy in the smallest stain upon a matron's honour.
No, Knight of Provence, basely have we succumbed to domestic tyrants: but never, I trust, will Romans be so vile as to wear the yoke of a foreign usurper.
I raised him to my favor, and gave him a post, which he has but now most basely betrayed.
What a pity that this noble intellect should be so basely employed!
And then follows the pretext, of whosebasely paltry quality you shall judge for yourselves.
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