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... England the words have been interchanged in the opposite way : — " He [ Somerville ] told them that he was going to London to shoot the Queen with his dagg , an he hoped to see her head set on a pole , for she was a serpent and a viper ...
... England the words have been interchanged in the opposite way : — " He [ Somerville ] told them that he was going to London to shoot the Queen with his dagg , an he hoped to see her head set on a pole , for she was a serpent and a viper ...
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... England , though bred a Dissenter , is now upon sound principles a convert to the Church of England , and appointed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts missionary at Elizabeth Town in Jersey ; and whereas ...
... England , though bred a Dissenter , is now upon sound principles a convert to the Church of England , and appointed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts missionary at Elizabeth Town in Jersey ; and whereas ...
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... England , but I find no Bradley in Norfolk . There is one in Suffolk . The ballad is too long for transcription here . JULIAN MARSHALL . TITLE OF NOVEL WANTED ( 7th S. v . 488 ) .— Is not the title of the book which TATTON asks for ...
... England , but I find no Bradley in Norfolk . There is one in Suffolk . The ballad is too long for transcription here . JULIAN MARSHALL . TITLE OF NOVEL WANTED ( 7th S. v . 488 ) .— Is not the title of the book which TATTON asks for ...
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... England . In comparative folk - lore Mr. Clouston has few superiors , and the analogues to the stories he gives are collected from very varied literature , European and Asiatic . Apart from its scholarly value , which is great , the ...
... England . In comparative folk - lore Mr. Clouston has few superiors , and the analogues to the stories he gives are collected from very varied literature , European and Asiatic . Apart from its scholarly value , which is great , the ...
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... England as at least " forty years before , or 1770 , is so far accurate , Giuseppe Grimaldi having first acted in London in 1758 , and no doubt he arrived in England in 1757. This date also ex- plodes the common story ( repeated in ...
... England as at least " forty years before , or 1770 , is so far accurate , Giuseppe Grimaldi having first acted in London in 1758 , and no doubt he arrived in England in 1757. This date also ex- plodes the common story ( repeated in ...
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Página 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Página 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Página 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Página 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Página 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Página 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Página 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Página 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,