Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 páginas |
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... present pub- lisher requested the preparation of an enlargement of the work . In the augmented form in which it is now offered to the public , the con- tents will be found so much more comprehensive and omnifarious that , while it has ...
... present pub- lisher requested the preparation of an enlargement of the work . In the augmented form in which it is now offered to the public , the con- tents will be found so much more comprehensive and omnifarious that , while it has ...
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... present hardships you bear with the happiness you expect hereafter , and try whether all these will not awaken thankfulness . ACROSTICS . THE acrostic , though an old and favorite form of verse , in our own language has been almost ...
... present hardships you bear with the happiness you expect hereafter , and try whether all these will not awaken thankfulness . ACROSTICS . THE acrostic , though an old and favorite form of verse , in our own language has been almost ...
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... presents examples of acrostics , and they were often used in the old Latin language . Cicero , in his treatise " De Divinatione , " has this remarkable passage : - " The verses of the Sybils ( said he ) are distinguished by that ...
... presents examples of acrostics , and they were often used in the old Latin language . Cicero , in his treatise " De Divinatione , " has this remarkable passage : - " The verses of the Sybils ( said he ) are distinguished by that ...
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... present . It was a diadem , in antique style , adorned with six jewels . The stones were so set as to spell , in acrostic style , the name of the great artiste , and also to signify six of her principal roles , thus : Ruby , A methyst ...
... present . It was a diadem , in antique style , adorned with six jewels . The stones were so set as to spell , in acrostic style , the name of the great artiste , and also to signify six of her principal roles , thus : Ruby , A methyst ...
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... presents the same words , whether read from left to right , or from right to left . So also the expressions in English , — Madam , I'm Adam . ( Adam to Eve . ) Name no one man . Able was I ere I saw Elba . ( Napoleon loq . ) Snug & raw ...
... presents the same words , whether read from left to right , or from right to left . So also the expressions in English , — Madam , I'm Adam . ( Adam to Eve . ) Name no one man . Able was I ere I saw Elba . ( Napoleon loq . ) Snug & raw ...
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acrostic anagram ancient appear asked beautiful Bible Bishop blessed Cæsar called century chronogram church cross curious Dean Swift death Doneraile doth earth Echo England English English language epigram eyes fair father feet fell flower French gentleman give Greek hand hath head hear heart heaven Hebrew hexameter holy honor hundred Irenæus Jesus John Julius Cæsar King lady language Latin learned letter lines live look Lord Lord's Prayer marabout marriage means Miss never night o'er origin pain Palindromes PASQUINADE person poet Prayer present Psalm Queen remarkable replied rhyme rix-dollars Rome says seven Shakspeare sleep soul stearine sweet tell thee Theodore Hook thine thing thou thought tion took translation Tryphiodorus unto verse wife wine word write written wrote young Есно
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Página 803 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 507 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Página 760 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 521 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Página 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Página 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Página 391 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Página 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Página 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.