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... early times , although one knows many a country by - road , to this day , where " Dun " might easily be stuck in the mire . The old English custom consisted " At Rippon in Yorkshire , on Christmas Eve , in dragging the Yule " clog ...
... early times , although one knows many a country by - road , to this day , where " Dun " might easily be stuck in the mire . The old English custom consisted " At Rippon in Yorkshire , on Christmas Eve , in dragging the Yule " clog ...
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... early dramas , is responsible . Its aim , as announced , is to stand midway between Dyce and Clark and Wright , the editors of the Cambridge text , less austere than the latter , but more rigorous than the former . So far as we have ...
... early dramas , is responsible . Its aim , as announced , is to stand midway between Dyce and Clark and Wright , the editors of the Cambridge text , less austere than the latter , but more rigorous than the former . So far as we have ...
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... early as 1613. Parlour has also an interesting history . Parlous is , of course , a syncopated form of perilous . Under Parnassian Mr. Gosse is given as authority for the use of a term applied to poets of the nineteenth century ...
... early as 1613. Parlour has also an interesting history . Parlous is , of course , a syncopated form of perilous . Under Parnassian Mr. Gosse is given as authority for the use of a term applied to poets of the nineteenth century ...
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... Early Diary . That may not , however , be expected yet awhile . The sixth and last volume will have a general index . Boswell's Life of Johnson . 2 vols . ( Frowde . ) THOUGH announced as in two volumes , and issued in that shape , this ...
... Early Diary . That may not , however , be expected yet awhile . The sixth and last volume will have a general index . Boswell's Life of Johnson . 2 vols . ( Frowde . ) THOUGH announced as in two volumes , and issued in that shape , this ...
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... early period of English history . Perhaps it may not be superfluous to remark that the foot is not taken from the length of the human foot , any more than the thumb - breadth or a barleycorn was the unit of length , or a grain of some ...
... early period of English history . Perhaps it may not be superfluous to remark that the foot is not taken from the length of the human foot , any more than the thumb - breadth or a barleycorn was the unit of length , or a grain of some ...
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Página 128 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 442 - Who are these coming to the sacrifice ? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest...
Página 281 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Página 151 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Página 298 - I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me !
Página 11 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Página 245 - For instance, the doctrine of a Trinity is found both in the East and in the West ; so is the ceremony of washing ; so is the rite of sacrifice. The doctrine of the Divine Word...
Página 24 - And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
Página 81 - FILL for me a brimming bowl And let me in it drown my soul : But put therein some drug, designed To Banish Women from my mind : For I want not the stream inspiring That fills the mind with — fond desiring, But I want as deep a draught As e'er from Lethe's wave was quaffd ; From my despairing heart to charm 8 ere di S lincourt.
Página 140 - This New and Revised Edition comprises additional material and hitherto Unpublished Letters, Sketches, and Drawings, derived from the Author's Original MSS.