Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... poem of the second century , " Præcepta de Medicina , " by Q. Serenus Sammonicus . It is now often used in the general sense of a spell , or pretended conjuring , jargon , or gibberish . Absence makes the heart grow fonder . This line ...
... poem of the second century , " Præcepta de Medicina , " by Q. Serenus Sammonicus . It is now often used in the general sense of a spell , or pretended conjuring , jargon , or gibberish . Absence makes the heart grow fonder . This line ...
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... poem , and present Respectful terms of compliment , A Gentle Lady bids thee speak ; Courteous is She , though Thou be weak . Evoke from Heav'n , as thick as Manna , Joy after joy on GRACE JOANNA . On Fornham's glebe and pasture land A ...
... poem , and present Respectful terms of compliment , A Gentle Lady bids thee speak ; Courteous is She , though Thou be weak . Evoke from Heav'n , as thick as Manna , Joy after joy on GRACE JOANNA . On Fornham's glebe and pasture land A ...
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... poem , still extant , in praise of Constantine , the lines of which are acrostics . The early French poets , from the time of Francis I. to that of Louis XIV . , were fond of this trifling . But it was carried to its most wasteful and ...
... poem , still extant , in praise of Constantine , the lines of which are acrostics . The early French poets , from the time of Francis I. to that of Louis XIV . , were fond of this trifling . But it was carried to its most wasteful and ...
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... poem by Richard Rolle de Ham- pole ( Early English Text Society Reprints , No. 26 , p . 79 ) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane , So spire if thou may spede , Whare was then the pride of man That now merres his meed ? The couplet is also ...
... poem by Richard Rolle de Ham- pole ( Early English Text Society Reprints , No. 26 , p . 79 ) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane , So spire if thou may spede , Whare was then the pride of man That now merres his meed ? The couplet is also ...
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William S. Walsh. 3 Adversity . The poets and the philosophers are fond of cheerful moraliz- ings on the advantages of ... Poem ; being a congratulatory panegyrick for my Lord General's late return , summing up his successes in an ...
William S. Walsh. 3 Adversity . The poets and the philosophers are fond of cheerful moraliz- ings on the advantages of ... Poem ; being a congratulatory panegyrick for my Lord General's late return , summing up his successes in an ...
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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.