A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, Etc., which Have Been Thought to Require Illustration, in the Works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries, Band 1Reeves and Turner, 1888 - 981 Seiten |
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... Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries Robert Nares James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright. 3 3433 08185728 0 TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUT - COL.JOHN SHAW BILLINGS M.D.. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Front Cover.
... Particularly Shakespeare, and His Contemporaries Robert Nares James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright. 3 3433 08185728 0 TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUT - COL.JOHN SHAW BILLINGS M.D.. NYPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES Front Cover.
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... JOHN SHAW BILLINGS M.D. , D.C.L. , LL.D . FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY WHO BY HIS FORESIGHT ENERGY AND ADMINISTRATIVE ABILITY MADE EFFECTIVE ITS FAR - REACHING INFLUENCE " HE IS NOT DEAD WHO GIVETH LIFE TO KNOWLEDGE " JOHN ...
... JOHN SHAW BILLINGS M.D. , D.C.L. , LL.D . FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY WHO BY HIS FORESIGHT ENERGY AND ADMINISTRATIVE ABILITY MADE EFFECTIVE ITS FAR - REACHING INFLUENCE " HE IS NOT DEAD WHO GIVETH LIFE TO KNOWLEDGE " JOHN ...
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... John Harrington , who in 1596 published his celebrated tract , called " The Metamorphosis of Ajax , " by which he meant the im- provement of a jakes , or necessary , by forming it into what we now call a water - closet , of which Sir John ...
... John Harrington , who in 1596 published his celebrated tract , called " The Metamorphosis of Ajax , " by which he meant the im- provement of a jakes , or necessary , by forming it into what we now call a water - closet , of which Sir John ...
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... John Fisticankoes , Ajax his sonne and heyre , " p . 159 . But I have not met with him elsewhere . See JAKES . TAID . A sort of tax formerly raised in England . It was sometimes to a cer- tain extent voluntary . The records of the City ...
... John Fisticankoes , Ajax his sonne and heyre , " p . 159 . But I have not met with him elsewhere . See JAKES . TAID . A sort of tax formerly raised in England . It was sometimes to a cer- tain extent voluntary . The records of the City ...
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... John Maner- ing , Alferes Arthur Carrol , " & c . ALFRIDARIA . A term in the old judi- cial astrology , which is thus explained by Kersey : " A temporary power which the planets have over the life of person . ' " " a I'll finde the ...
... John Maner- ing , Alferes Arthur Carrol , " & c . ALFRIDARIA . A term in the old judi- cial astrology , which is thus explained by Kersey : " A temporary power which the planets have over the life of person . ' " " a I'll finde the ...
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Seite 269 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Seite 262 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 28 - THE ILIADS OF HOMER, Prince of Poets, never before in any Language truly translated, with a Comment on some of his chief Places. Done according to the Greek by GEORGE CHAPMAN, with Introduction and Notes by the Rev.
Seite 349 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Seite 273 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 7 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Seite 465 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Seite 233 - Be content; Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift: His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.
Seite 160 - Shirley's Works, vol. iv. p. 298. Nares (in his Gloss.) quotes what follows from Blount's Glossography : " Chrisome (a xplia [to anoint — with the holy oil formerly used in baptism]) signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the minister of baptism upon the head of a child newly anointed with chrism after his baptism. Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a child newly christened, in token of his baptism ; wherewith the women use to shroud the child, if dying within...
Seite 390 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.