Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... dead and the absent have no friends . " Absolute Wisdom . A sobriquet given to Sir Matthew Wood , a stanch supporter of Queen Caroline in 1821 , who , having been reproached for giving foolish advice to that unhappy queen , diffidently ...
... dead and the absent have no friends . " Absolute Wisdom . A sobriquet given to Sir Matthew Wood , a stanch supporter of Queen Caroline in 1821 , who , having been reproached for giving foolish advice to that unhappy queen , diffidently ...
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... Dead Heart " was being played at his theatre . He ordered ten hundred thousand hearts to be printed in red , inscribed with the words Dead Heart , and had them posted everywhere , upon the pavements , upon the walls , upon the trees in ...
... Dead Heart " was being played at his theatre . He ordered ten hundred thousand hearts to be printed in red , inscribed with the words Dead Heart , and had them posted everywhere , upon the pavements , upon the walls , upon the trees in ...
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... dead who is dumb as the dust - heaps of death ; Surely no soul is it , sweet as the spasm of erotic , emotional , exquisite error , Bathed in the balms of beatified bliss , beatific itself by beatitude's breath . Surely no spirit or ...
... dead who is dumb as the dust - heaps of death ; Surely no soul is it , sweet as the spasm of erotic , emotional , exquisite error , Bathed in the balms of beatified bliss , beatific itself by beatitude's breath . Surely no spirit or ...
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... dead pig's hide , not by scalding , but by singeing . This is an operation of some nicety ; for too much singeing would spoil the bacon . But practice makes perfect ; and by the aid of ignited stubble , straw , or paper the object is ...
... dead pig's hide , not by scalding , but by singeing . This is an operation of some nicety ; for too much singeing would spoil the bacon . But practice makes perfect ; and by the aid of ignited stubble , straw , or paper the object is ...
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... dead man - with a sharp scream would snatch the bloody shirt , and , waving it aloft , begin the vocero , -the lamentation . This rhythmic discourse was made up of alternate expressions of love for the dead and hatred of his enemies ...
... dead man - with a sharp scream would snatch the bloody shirt , and , waving it aloft , begin the vocero , -the lamentation . This rhythmic discourse was made up of alternate expressions of love for the dead and hatred of his enemies ...
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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.