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WILLIAM LEEKE , M.A. , Rural Dean , & c . , who carried the 52nd Regimental Colours at Waterloo . " The accounts of the Battle are written with much spirit and colour , and are well worth the notice of all our soldiers , " & c .
WILLIAM LEEKE , M.A. , Rural Dean , & c . , who carried the 52nd Regimental Colours at Waterloo . " The accounts of the Battle are written with much spirit and colour , and are well worth the notice of all our soldiers , " & c .
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Wagstaffe says that the original MS . account of the last two years of King Charles I. , written by Sir Thomas Herbert , and afterwards published , was in 1697 in the possession of his widow , who was " married to Henry Edmonds ...
Wagstaffe says that the original MS . account of the last two years of King Charles I. , written by Sir Thomas Herbert , and afterwards published , was in 1697 in the possession of his widow , who was " married to Henry Edmonds ...
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The assumption that the ode in question was written when D'Avenant was only ten years old , though made by an editor of twenty - one royal octavo volumes of English verse , needs no refutation - but I shall produce the plain words which ...
The assumption that the ode in question was written when D'Avenant was only ten years old , though made by an editor of twenty - one royal octavo volumes of English verse , needs no refutation - but I shall produce the plain words which ...
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... and I remember when Crofton Croker and I were writing the second volume of The Irish Fairy Legends , that when I called on him one evening he read to me what he had written of his ballad , " The Lord of Dunkerron , " and he stopped ...
... and I remember when Crofton Croker and I were writing the second volume of The Irish Fairy Legends , that when I called on him one evening he read to me what he had written of his ballad , " The Lord of Dunkerron , " and he stopped ...
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We might as well believe that any contemporary of Shakespeare ( " whose magic could not copied be " ) could have written Macbeth , as that several opponents of the Grafton administration could have wielded the ...
We might as well believe that any contemporary of Shakespeare ( " whose magic could not copied be " ) could have written Macbeth , as that several opponents of the Grafton administration could have wielded the ...
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Página 203 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 133 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, "All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient." And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
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Página 134 - ... to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Página 203 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west...