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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... means , she bribed or persuaded one of the bridge- keepers to throw it over the bridge , as if to make room for another , just when he should see her passing in a boat beneath . And she doubtless made the above exclamation to her ...
... means , she bribed or persuaded one of the bridge- keepers to throw it over the bridge , as if to make room for another , just when he should see her passing in a boat beneath . And she doubtless made the above exclamation to her ...
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... means of wires stretched for miles among the forest - trees , an old gentleman contem- plated the arrangement with a look of grave disap- probation , and at length , with much solemnity , observed : Mr Crosse , don't you think it is ...
... means of wires stretched for miles among the forest - trees , an old gentleman contem- plated the arrangement with a look of grave disap- probation , and at length , with much solemnity , observed : Mr Crosse , don't you think it is ...
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... means improbable that the macaronis , eccentric fops as they certainly were , added somewhat to the progress of national refine- ment . Living in the days of six - bottle men , one grave charge brought against them was that they hated ...
... means improbable that the macaronis , eccentric fops as they certainly were , added somewhat to the progress of national refine- ment . Living in the days of six - bottle men , one grave charge brought against them was that they hated ...
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... means embraced every item of the costly bill of fare - Besides , ' adds the manu- script , his keepers afirme that from the month of September until April , he must drink ( not water ) but wyne and from April unto September , he must ...
... means embraced every item of the costly bill of fare - Besides , ' adds the manu- script , his keepers afirme that from the month of September until April , he must drink ( not water ) but wyne and from April unto September , he must ...
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... mean an opinion of your courage ? ' Macklin's shrewdness , knowledge of the world , long experience of life , and liberal ... means unready at putting down an impudent questioner by a biting sarcasm , he used to relate , with tolerable ...
... mean an opinion of your courage ? ' Macklin's shrewdness , knowledge of the world , long experience of life , and liberal ... means unready at putting down an impudent questioner by a biting sarcasm , he used to relate , with tolerable ...
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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...