Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 Seiten |
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... turn recalls the famous saying of Themistocles , who being asked whether the historian were not greater than the hero , because without the historian the hero would be forgotten , Yankee - like turned on his questioner with another ...
... turn recalls the famous saying of Themistocles , who being asked whether the historian were not greater than the hero , because without the historian the hero would be forgotten , Yankee - like turned on his questioner with another ...
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... turn themselves into Mæcenases . They patronized the skilful pen and the cunning pencil . The world would be astonished if it knew how many men now famous have written puffs for tradesmen . And two men , one in England and another in ...
... turn themselves into Mæcenases . They patronized the skilful pen and the cunning pencil . The world would be astonished if it knew how many men now famous have written puffs for tradesmen . And two men , one in England and another in ...
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... turn to the Phoenician aleph and beth ( still the names of the first two letters in Hebrew ) , which signify “ ox " and " house . " We may , therefore , assume that the Phoenicians saw some likeness between the letters so named by them ...
... turn to the Phoenician aleph and beth ( still the names of the first two letters in Hebrew ) , which signify “ ox " and " house . " We may , therefore , assume that the Phoenicians saw some likeness between the letters so named by them ...
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... turning inside - out of the m's and n's of which they are composed , these correspondences might be evolved and nature ... turn the row of bucklers formed different anagrams in the following order : First . Second . Domus Lescinia . Ades ...
... turning inside - out of the m's and n's of which they are composed , these correspondences might be evolved and nature ... turn the row of bucklers formed different anagrams in the following order : First . Second . Domus Lescinia . Ades ...
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... turn the very title of the Pope into a denial of his claims , as thus : SUPRE- MUS PONTIFEX ROMANUS : O non super Petram fixus ( O ! not founded upon Peter ) . In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , anagrams were quite in fashion ...
... turn the very title of the Pope into a denial of his claims , as thus : SUPRE- MUS PONTIFEX ROMANUS : O non super Petram fixus ( O ! not founded upon Peter ) . In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , anagrams were quite in fashion ...
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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.