Read full poem →A Bishop, by his neighbours hated,
Has cause to wish himself translated:
Dictionary Entry
An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's
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. bishopbishop lordbishop first
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Poetry examples for “bishop”
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Read full poem →Parson, these things in thy possessing
Are better than the bishop's blessing:--
A wife that makes conserves; a steed
Read full poem →Him Bishop's Hill or Denton-^ cnay,
Or Eillborow, better hoM than they ;
Read full poem →moS't Tirulent and famous attack was m^ide by
Samuel Parker, afterwards Bishop of Oxtord,
ID a worh. wherein the coarsete butFoonery and
Read full poem →{59a} Sir Thomas More. Sir Thomas Wiat. Henry Earl of Surrey. Sir
Thomas Chaloner. Sir Thomas Smith. Sir Thomas Eliot. Bishop Gardiner.
Sir Nicolas Bacon, L.K. Sir Philip Sidney. Master Richard Hooker.
Read full poem →this, yet being by bis fortvaii conversant also in hieh life (tne son of a
judge, as the other of a bishop) he is in this too alter ab illo^ a good
second, and almost a second self, as Philaster, Amintor, Bacurius in the
Read full poem →* / Ititkiuhntd.] //rrA/w//rrtf/ was first amanuensis to bishop Laud, and follow of All-
s»ml# I Ir \\ Mi Jiiillior of the Mcrairius Aulicus, a verj- loyal paper in the time of liic rebel-
Read full poem →Since then Thy train hath been
Freeman and bondman, bishop, king and queen,
With flaming candles and with garlands green:
Read full poem →Enter the Kine, LEIcesTER, the BIsHoP OF
WINCHESTER, and TRUSSEL.