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... never a " bank encircled by water . " Except the present passage Dr. Murray quotes no example earlier than 1696 of bank used in the latter sense . Shoal , used only honour " ( Henry VIII . , ' III . ii . 437 ) —has its once by ...
... never a " bank encircled by water . " Except the present passage Dr. Murray quotes no example earlier than 1696 of bank used in the latter sense . Shoal , used only honour " ( Henry VIII . , ' III . ii . 437 ) —has its once by ...
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... never any change in the family name , " whilst another , in the very same column of N. & Q , ' affirms it as no secret that " his original name was Lemon Marks " -it seems time to ask for an authoritative statement on the subject ...
... never any change in the family name , " whilst another , in the very same column of N. & Q , ' affirms it as no secret that " his original name was Lemon Marks " -it seems time to ask for an authoritative statement on the subject ...
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... never saw . The fact was that Wycliffe's Bible was not men- tioned , and the book which the king was alleged to be reading was his own Latin Psalter , now among the Cottonian MSS . It might have been thought tolerably safe to represent ...
... never saw . The fact was that Wycliffe's Bible was not men- tioned , and the book which the king was alleged to be reading was his own Latin Psalter , now among the Cottonian MSS . It might have been thought tolerably safe to represent ...
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... never saw it omitted , save in one country church , years ago , where I read the lesson , and was surprised to find that the con- gregation kept their seats ; but that was in the dark ages . R. P. H. This custom is not so uncommon as ...
... never saw it omitted , save in one country church , years ago , where I read the lesson , and was surprised to find that the con- gregation kept their seats ; but that was in the dark ages . R. P. H. This custom is not so uncommon as ...
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... never be allowed to reach that stage without a struggle . Purists have by this time almost abandoned all resistance to the abuse of such words as mutual , reliable , and the like . Such abuses have now almost established them- selves in ...
... never be allowed to reach that stage without a struggle . Purists have by this time almost abandoned all resistance to the abuse of such words as mutual , reliable , and the like . Such abuses have now almost established them- selves in ...
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Seite 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Seite 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Seite 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Seite 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Seite 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Seite 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Seite 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Seite 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Seite 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Seite 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,