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... Thomas Piercy , Robert Win- ter , Thomas Winter , John Grant , Ambrose Rock- wood , John Wright , Francis Thresham , Sir Everard Digby , and other gentlemen of good estates , who , like combustible matter , took fire at the first motion ...
... Thomas Piercy , Robert Win- ter , Thomas Winter , John Grant , Ambrose Rock- wood , John Wright , Francis Thresham , Sir Everard Digby , and other gentlemen of good estates , who , like combustible matter , took fire at the first motion ...
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... Thomas Piercy , one of the gentlemen pensioners to the king . The Lord Monteagle , as soon as he heard Piercy named , believed it was he who had wrote the letter ; upon which suspicions in- creasing , the king and council ordered the ...
... Thomas Piercy , one of the gentlemen pensioners to the king . The Lord Monteagle , as soon as he heard Piercy named , believed it was he who had wrote the letter ; upon which suspicions in- creasing , the king and council ordered the ...
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A Pronouncing Vocabulary: With Lessons in Prose and Verse and a Few ... George Fulton No preview available - 2016 |
A Pronouncing Vocabulary, with Lessons in Prose and Verse and a Few ... George Fulton No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
accent adjective agree animal bad company beast beautiful birds body brother cake called child consonant creatures Declension denotes Dictionary dilacerate diphthong divided earth edst entreated Euphronius father feed formed friends gender genitive girl give ground hand happy hath heart heaven hope indicative mode kind lady Lamprocles language Lindley Murray little boy looking-glass Lord Lord Monteagle Lucetta mamma marked mayst mind mother name-sounds nest never night notation Note noun Orthoepy parents participle pause Perfect Perrin person singular plants pleasure pray preposition present pronounced pronunciation proper pupil quadrupeds relative pronoun Rule shalt sheep Sheridan shines short quantity shun shut sound silent e sing singular number Socrates spect spring syllable thee thing third person Thomas Piercy thou Tis green tree verb vowel walk Walker words young
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Page 171 - If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way!
Page 173 - Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear Him, ye deaf; and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he the obstructed paths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting, like the bounding roe.
Page 174 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
Page 172 - Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a branch arise, Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies : The ^Ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Page 92 - Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. And he said, a certain man had two sons : and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
Page 173 - No more shall nation against nation rise, Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes, Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered o'er, The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more; But useless lances into scythes shall bend, And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Page 107 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky; The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Page 86 - WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree ; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Page 92 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Page 176 - HAIL, beauteous stranger of the grove ! Thou messenger of Spring! Now heaven repairs thy rural seat, And woods thy welcome sing. What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year?