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... write his Memoirs ' ; and as he took seven years in completing that work , the labour of composition must have ceased in 1796 . In support of my statement that the seventh volume of these Memoirs ' may still be in exist- ence in MS ...
... write his Memoirs ' ; and as he took seven years in completing that work , the labour of composition must have ceased in 1796 . In support of my statement that the seventh volume of these Memoirs ' may still be in exist- ence in MS ...
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... write a comic play , of which the subject is a comical event or series of events . So also with the word tragic . Politic is the reverse of comic and tragic , and has lost the Greek sense , yielding it to the longer form . Cubic denotes ...
... write a comic play , of which the subject is a comical event or series of events . So also with the word tragic . Politic is the reverse of comic and tragic , and has lost the Greek sense , yielding it to the longer form . Cubic denotes ...
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... write English dictionaries . In the same , June 9 , p . 787 , we are told it is still a good word in the modern ... writes : " There is a great ' stampede ' on Parnassus at the present moment , a rushing to and fro of the steeds of ...
... write English dictionaries . In the same , June 9 , p . 787 , we are told it is still a good word in the modern ... writes : " There is a great ' stampede ' on Parnassus at the present moment , a rushing to and fro of the steeds of ...
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... writes to the Marquis of Or- mond that Rosseter was among those who " will now at- tempt anything for the King to prevent the ruin of the nation . " He was knighted very soon after the Restora- tion . LL.D. ( Whittaker & Co. ) A ...
... writes to the Marquis of Or- mond that Rosseter was among those who " will now at- tempt anything for the King to prevent the ruin of the nation . " He was knighted very soon after the Restora- tion . LL.D. ( Whittaker & Co. ) A ...
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... writes of " the Calasirian division of the Egyptian war- caste , " but gives no explanation . Does it mean mercenaries from Cælo - Syria , classed on the same principle as the Varangians at old Byzantium ? A. H. LORD FANNY . - This was ...
... writes of " the Calasirian division of the Egyptian war- caste , " but gives no explanation . Does it mean mercenaries from Cælo - Syria , classed on the same principle as the Varangians at old Byzantium ? A. H. LORD FANNY . - This was ...
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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,