Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... France is saved " ( " De l'audace , et encore de l'audace , et toujours de l'audace , et la France est sauvée " ) . Had Danton read Spenser as well as Plutarch ? In the " Faerie Queene " ( iii . 11 , 54 ) are the following lines : And ...
... France is saved " ( " De l'audace , et encore de l'audace , et toujours de l'audace , et la France est sauvée " ) . Had Danton read Spenser as well as Plutarch ? In the " Faerie Queene " ( iii . 11 , 54 ) are the following lines : And ...
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... France that the English were treach- erous . It is certainly great injustice to reckon treachery among the vices familiar to the English . " The following lines are said to have been composed by Philip of Valois on the occasion of ...
... France that the English were treach- erous . It is certainly great injustice to reckon treachery among the vices familiar to the English . " The following lines are said to have been composed by Philip of Valois on the occasion of ...
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... France during a pestilence : At what period was this great plan of conquest and constipation fully developed ? In whose mind was the idea of destroying the pride and the plasters of France first engendered ? Without castor oil they ...
... France during a pestilence : At what period was this great plan of conquest and constipation fully developed ? In whose mind was the idea of destroying the pride and the plasters of France first engendered ? Without castor oil they ...
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... France : Ce côté est exclusivement réservé à l'adresse . Yet Belgium is not satisfied . Apparently it thinks there is tautology in " exclusively reserved , " and drops the adverb : Ce côté est réservé à l'adresse . Zijde voo het adres ...
... France : Ce côté est exclusivement réservé à l'adresse . Yet Belgium is not satisfied . Apparently it thinks there is tautology in " exclusively reserved , " and drops the adverb : Ce côté est réservé à l'adresse . Zijde voo het adres ...
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William S. Walsh. JAQUES CLEMENT , the assassin of Henry III . of France , Qui est ce mal ne ? ( Who is this ill - born person ? ) . Very good from the point of view of the believer in the divine right of kings , but thrown utterly in ...
William S. Walsh. JAQUES CLEMENT , the assassin of Henry III . of France , Qui est ce mal ne ? ( Who is this ill - born person ? ) . Very good from the point of view of the believer in the divine right of kings , but thrown utterly in ...
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Página 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
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 230 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Página 125 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 258 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 713 - Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
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.
Página 741 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
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.