Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... quoted above . So through Bailey , Ash , and Todd it has been handed down to our time , -a standing exemplar of the solidarity of dictionaries , and of the ponderous indolence with which philologers repeat without examining the errors ...
... quoted above . So through Bailey , Ash , and Todd it has been handed down to our time , -a standing exemplar of the solidarity of dictionaries , and of the ponderous indolence with which philologers repeat without examining the errors ...
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... quoted is directly traversed by the French , " The absent are always in the wrong , " and " Absent , none without fault ; present , none without excuse . " And every language furnishes examples to support this : e.g. , the Greek ...
... quoted is directly traversed by the French , " The absent are always in the wrong , " and " Absent , none without fault ; present , none without excuse . " And every language furnishes examples to support this : e.g. , the Greek ...
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... quoted in the New English Dictionary , sub voce , the word was " suggested by Prof. Huxley at a party held previous to the formation of the now defunct Metaphysical Society , at Mr. James Knowles's house on Clapham Common , one evening ...
... quoted in the New English Dictionary , sub voce , the word was " suggested by Prof. Huxley at a party held previous to the formation of the now defunct Metaphysical Society , at Mr. James Knowles's house on Clapham Common , one evening ...
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... quoted remains the best because unconscious exponent . " Another scholar has discovered that there are only two words in the English language which contain all the vowels in their order . They are abstemious " and " facetious . " The ...
... quoted remains the best because unconscious exponent . " Another scholar has discovered that there are only two words in the English language which contain all the vowels in their order . They are abstemious " and " facetious . " The ...
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... quoting : " The stone called asbestos is not more inextinguishable than is the thirst of which I am the parent . Appetite ... quoted in C. D. Warner's Life , p . 77 . Apple of Discord . Something which causes strife , -an allusion to the ...
... quoting : " The stone called asbestos is not more inextinguishable than is the thirst of which I am the parent . Appetite ... quoted in C. D. Warner's Life , p . 77 . Apple of Discord . Something which causes strife , -an allusion to the ...
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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.