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... contains ( says the last - mentioned critic ) more material prima stamina of the Paradise Lost than , as I believe , any other book whatever ; and my hypothesis is , | that it positively laid the first stone of that monu- mentum ære ...
... contains ( says the last - mentioned critic ) more material prima stamina of the Paradise Lost than , as I believe , any other book whatever ; and my hypothesis is , | that it positively laid the first stone of that monu- mentum ære ...
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... contains the auto- graphs of many of the University Professors in various parts of Germany and the Low Countries , in the years 1649-1672 , but also includes some others collected during a residence in England in 1651. The entry signed ...
... contains the auto- graphs of many of the University Professors in various parts of Germany and the Low Countries , in the years 1649-1672 , but also includes some others collected during a residence in England in 1651. The entry signed ...
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... contains some very curious and unknown hymns , the authorship of which would be an interesting inquiry , and so also by what means , and by whom , they were excluded from the later editions of the Words book . The last edition edited by ...
... contains some very curious and unknown hymns , the authorship of which would be an interesting inquiry , and so also by what means , and by whom , they were excluded from the later editions of the Words book . The last edition edited by ...
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... contain the substituted leaf , but have searched in vain for a copy which contains that leaf which was cancelled . Is it in the power of any of your readers to assist me , either by directing me to a copy in any public or private ...
... contain the substituted leaf , but have searched in vain for a copy which contains that leaf which was cancelled . Is it in the power of any of your readers to assist me , either by directing me to a copy in any public or private ...
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... containing fleurs - de - lys in " N. & Q. " I should be very glad to know to whom it belongs . C. W. BINGHAM ... contains monogram , explained as a cipher . By the context of the passages in which it occurs , monograph would seem ...
... containing fleurs - de - lys in " N. & Q. " I should be very glad to know to whom it belongs . C. W. BINGHAM ... contains monogram , explained as a cipher . By the context of the passages in which it occurs , monograph would seem ...
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Page 310 - And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. — I'll not fight with thee. Macd. Then yield thee, coward, And live to be the show and gaze o
Page 21 - A strange fish ! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will jiot give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, o...
Page 289 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which w'as the son of Heli...
Page 266 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 268 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Page 193 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 13 - Manchester, and compare it with what it was at the close of the last and the commencement of the present century, we shall find that at that period the useful and industrial arts were comparatively of little importance.
Page 268 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by And leave you hindmost: Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, O'er-run and trampled on...
Page 286 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 95 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.