Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 Seiten |
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... replied, ** Damn the Act of Parliament 1 it won't warm the belly ."— Barrerb and Lkland : Dictionary of Slang. Action, action, action! In his " Lives of the Ten Orators," Plutarch tells how Demosthenes when asked what made the perfect ...
... replied, ** Damn the Act of Parliament 1 it won't warm the belly ."— Barrerb and Lkland : Dictionary of Slang. Action, action, action! In his " Lives of the Ten Orators," Plutarch tells how Demosthenes when asked what made the perfect ...
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... replied " No" in; W is the Waiter, who sat up till eight; X is his exit, not rigidly straight ; Yis the Yawning fit caused by the Ball; Z stands for Zero, or nothing at all. In one of the early numbers of Notes and Queries, a ...
... replied " No" in; W is the Waiter, who sat up till eight; X is his exit, not rigidly straight ; Yis the Yawning fit caused by the Ball; Z stands for Zero, or nothing at all. In one of the early numbers of Notes and Queries, a ...
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... replied, " Yes." Johnson immediately cried out, " No, sir, you do not mean tardiness of locomotion : you mean that sluggishness of mind which comes upon a man in solitude." If such be the experience of the great masters of language and ...
... replied, " Yes." Johnson immediately cried out, " No, sir, you do not mean tardiness of locomotion : you mean that sluggishness of mind which comes upon a man in solitude." If such be the experience of the great masters of language and ...
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... replied, is my one star, my Stella Maris, my treasure, my guide ! No, said I, you should rather say my treason. Yet no arms, said he. No, quoth I, quiet may suit best, as long as you have no mastery, I mean money arts. No, said he again ...
... replied, is my one star, my Stella Maris, my treasure, my guide ! No, said I, you should rather say my treason. Yet no arms, said he. No, quoth I, quiet may suit best, as long as you have no mastery, I mean money arts. No, said he again ...
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... replied the sturdy soldier, "je n'en sais rien ; moi je suis mon ancetre" (•' Ah, sir, I know nothing about it ; I am my own ancestor"). Probably he had never heard of the similar remark made by Tiberius of Curtius Rufus : " He seems to ...
... replied the sturdy soldier, "je n'en sais rien ; moi je suis mon ancetre" (•' Ah, sir, I know nothing about it ; I am my own ancestor"). Probably he had never heard of the similar remark made by Tiberius of Curtius Rufus : " He seems to ...
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Seite 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Seite 740 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Seite 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Seite 739 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Seite 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Seite 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Seite 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Seite 417 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Seite 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.