Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 Seiten |
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... English phrase " to the bitter end , " originally applied to a contest between two antagonists who were each determined to conquer or to die , but now more often used in the sense of " to excess , " " to the utmost extent , " and ...
... English phrase " to the bitter end , " originally applied to a contest between two antagonists who were each determined to conquer or to die , but now more often used in the sense of " to excess , " " to the utmost extent , " and ...
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... English proverbial expression , - When Adam delved and Eve span , Who was then the gentleman ? The couplet is memorable in English history . In Wat Tyler's insurrection during the reign of Richard II . , John Ball addressed the mob on ...
... English proverbial expression , - When Adam delved and Eve span , Who was then the gentleman ? The couplet is memorable in English history . In Wat Tyler's insurrection during the reign of Richard II . , John Ball addressed the mob on ...
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... English were treach- erous . It is certainly great injustice to reckon treachery among the vices familiar to the English . " The following lines are said to have been composed by Philip of Valois on the occasion of Edward III.'s ...
... English were treach- erous . It is certainly great injustice to reckon treachery among the vices familiar to the English . " The following lines are said to have been composed by Philip of Valois on the occasion of Edward III.'s ...
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... English and American slang , inordinate , violent , immoderate . Not unlikely it is a euphemistic corruption of " hell - fired . ” " I know I be so all - fired jealous I can't bear to hear o ' her talking , let alone writing , to you ...
... English and American slang , inordinate , violent , immoderate . Not unlikely it is a euphemistic corruption of " hell - fired . ” " I know I be so all - fired jealous I can't bear to hear o ' her talking , let alone writing , to you ...
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... English language . " The comparison , " he says , " of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey of a traveller in the Alps is perhaps the best that English poetry can show . It has no useless parts , yet affords a striking ...
... English language . " The comparison , " he says , " of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey of a traveller in the Alps is perhaps the best that English poetry can show . It has no useless parts , yet affords a striking ...
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Seite 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Seite 230 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Seite 125 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Seite 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Seite 258 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Seite 713 - Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Seite 739 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Seite 741 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Seite 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.