Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 Seiten |
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... give me a black wal nut box of quite a small size . The stanza subjoined is a specimen of both lipogrammatic and pangrammatic ingenuity , containing every letter of the alphabet except e . Those who remember that e is the most ...
... give me a black wal nut box of quite a small size . The stanza subjoined is a specimen of both lipogrammatic and pangrammatic ingenuity , containing every letter of the alphabet except e . Those who remember that e is the most ...
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... give King William III . an address of welcome , ut- tered the following equivocal compliment : - " Future ages , recording your Majesty's exploits , will pro- nounce you to have been a Nero ! " Mrs. Crawford says she wrote one line in ...
... give King William III . an address of welcome , ut- tered the following equivocal compliment : - " Future ages , recording your Majesty's exploits , will pro- nounce you to have been a Nero ! " Mrs. Crawford says she wrote one line in ...
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... give us back Macbeth , Othello , Lear . Delight to thousands oft thou gav'st , and now Years of calm lettered ease ' tis thine to know . LONGFELLOW . Lays like thine have many a charm ; Oft thy themes the heart must warm . Now o'er ...
... give us back Macbeth , Othello , Lear . Delight to thousands oft thou gav'st , and now Years of calm lettered ease ' tis thine to know . LONGFELLOW . Lays like thine have many a charm ; Oft thy themes the heart must warm . Now o'er ...
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... give . Curses of ages will attend your name , Traitors alone will glory in your shame . A lmighty vengeance sternly waits to roll Rivers of sulphur on your treacherous soul : Nature looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a ...
... give . Curses of ages will attend your name , Traitors alone will glory in your shame . A lmighty vengeance sternly waits to roll Rivers of sulphur on your treacherous soul : Nature looks shuddering back with conscious dread On such a ...
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... give To unrecovered loss : we rather breathe than live . WE SPEND A ten years ' breath Before we apprehend What ' tis to live in fear of death ; Our childish dreams are filled with painted joys Which please our sense , and waking prove ...
... give To unrecovered loss : we rather breathe than live . WE SPEND A ten years ' breath Before we apprehend What ' tis to live in fear of death ; Our childish dreams are filled with painted joys Which please our sense , and waking prove ...
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Seite 803 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 507 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Seite 760 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 521 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Seite 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Seite 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Seite 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Seite 391 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Seite 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Seite 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.