The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volumen2W. & R. Chambers Limited, 1832 |
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... occasion to the court to make themselves merry at his expense , had enclosed with the dispatches , not only the records of the * Might not perhaps this circumstance , properly seized , have conduced to trace out the affair ? PROPHECIES ...
... occasion to the court to make themselves merry at his expense , had enclosed with the dispatches , not only the records of the * Might not perhaps this circumstance , properly seized , have conduced to trace out the affair ? PROPHECIES ...
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... occasion he went to see Garrick in Richard III .; but instead of attending to the performance in the usual way , he found occupation in counting the number of words uttered by each performer . After striding over a field in two or three ...
... occasion he went to see Garrick in Richard III .; but instead of attending to the performance in the usual way , he found occupation in counting the number of words uttered by each performer . After striding over a field in two or three ...
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... occasion . Slack , by his adroit blow , gained six hundred pounds . Broughton survived in obscurity , but in com- parative affluence , for thirty - nine years , dying on the 8th of January 1789 , at a very advanced age . The father , as ...
... occasion . Slack , by his adroit blow , gained six hundred pounds . Broughton survived in obscurity , but in com- parative affluence , for thirty - nine years , dying on the 8th of January 1789 , at a very advanced age . The father , as ...
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... occasion , when he was kneeling before the holy sepulchre , he believed that he had a vision , in which Jesus Christ appeared to him , announced to him his mission , and ordered him to lose no time in setting about it . Impressed with ...
... occasion , when he was kneeling before the holy sepulchre , he believed that he had a vision , in which Jesus Christ appeared to him , announced to him his mission , and ordered him to lose no time in setting about it . Impressed with ...
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... occasion , he said : ' It takes a long time for a man to learn the art of neutral- ising in conversation . I have ... occasions , however full the house might be , the pit audience always made room for him in his accustomed seat - the ...
... occasion , he said : ' It takes a long time for a man to learn the art of neutral- ising in conversation . I have ... occasions , however full the house might be , the pit audience always made room for him in his accustomed seat - the ...
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Página 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Página 173 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Página 299 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Página 234 - God bless the King! God bless the faith's defender! God bless — no harm in blessing — the Pretender. Who that pretender is, and who that king, God bless us all! is quite another thing.
Página 4 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Página 469 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Página 266 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Página 485 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...