Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
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... Young's historic threat, " We'll send them [the Gentiles] to hell across lots." Acrostic (Gr. aKpoonxic ; wcpo, prefix, and an^oc, row, ordery line), a once favorite form o( literary legerdemain. In its simplest and most usual form it ...
... Young's historic threat, " We'll send them [the Gentiles] to hell across lots." Acrostic (Gr. aKpoonxic ; wcpo, prefix, and an^oc, row, ordery line), a once favorite form o( literary legerdemain. In its simplest and most usual form it ...
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... young gentleman has been lately served by the aforesaid young lady, who, after a courtship of these four months Sast, and with her approbation, and in the most public manner possible, and with the utmost onor as could possibly become a ...
... young gentleman has been lately served by the aforesaid young lady, who, after a courtship of these four months Sast, and with her approbation, and in the most public manner possible, and with the utmost onor as could possibly become a ...
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... young women desirous of changing their condition that he is at present disengaged ; and advises them to consider that although there be luck in leisure, yet in this case delays are dangerous ; for, with him, it is determined it shall be ...
... young women desirous of changing their condition that he is at present disengaged ; and advises them to consider that although there be luck in leisure, yet in this case delays are dangerous ; for, with him, it is determined it shall be ...
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... Young's But the black blast blows hard. The following, from Alfred Austin's " Season," is less known, but is well worth quoting : Be dumb, ye dawdlers, whilst his spells confound The gathered — scattered — symphonies of sound ; Cymbals ...
... Young's But the black blast blows hard. The following, from Alfred Austin's " Season," is less known, but is well worth quoting : Be dumb, ye dawdlers, whilst his spells confound The gathered — scattered — symphonies of sound ; Cymbals ...
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... young woman wants washing." But we have grown quite used to such journalistic English as "octagonal men's cassimere pantaloons," or " woollen children's mitts," or " terra-cotta ladies' gloves," so much so that we scarcely pause to ...
... young woman wants washing." But we have grown quite used to such journalistic English as "octagonal men's cassimere pantaloons," or " woollen children's mitts," or " terra-cotta ladies' gloves," so much so that we scarcely pause to ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.