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... head and stomach of all faulty functions , expel all oppressive accumulations from the bowels , and purify both solids and fluids . With the blood perfect , and all poisons purged from the system , regularity must pre and healthful ...
... head and stomach of all faulty functions , expel all oppressive accumulations from the bowels , and purify both solids and fluids . With the blood perfect , and all poisons purged from the system , regularity must pre and healthful ...
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... head set on a pole , for she was a serpent and a viper . " - Froude , Hist . of England , ' vol . ii . p . 396 . I incline to think , because of the archaism , that the line in question must have belonged to the old play of ' Pericles ...
... head set on a pole , for she was a serpent and a viper . " - Froude , Hist . of England , ' vol . ii . p . 396 . I incline to think , because of the archaism , that the line in question must have belonged to the old play of ' Pericles ...
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... head the second communication Duplicate . " A. MASSON ( " So long " ) .- See 6th S. ii . 67 , 194 , 496 ; iii . 18 . W. S. B. H. ( " A Month's Mind " ) .- See 6th S. vi . 205 , 251 , 352 , 374 , 410 , 458 , 516 ; vii . 115 , 298 ; viii ...
... head the second communication Duplicate . " A. MASSON ( " So long " ) .- See 6th S. ii . 67 , 194 , 496 ; iii . 18 . W. S. B. H. ( " A Month's Mind " ) .- See 6th S. vi . 205 , 251 , 352 , 374 , 410 , 458 , 516 ; vii . 115 , 298 ; viii ...
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... head with a fool's cap , across which is scribbled " Phiz . " Other illustrators of this paper were Kenny Meadows , T. H. Nicholson , and New- Omission is also made of Phiz's excellent seven page illustrations to Horace Mayhew's Letters ...
... head with a fool's cap , across which is scribbled " Phiz . " Other illustrators of this paper were Kenny Meadows , T. H. Nicholson , and New- Omission is also made of Phiz's excellent seven page illustrations to Horace Mayhew's Letters ...
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... head of the of its descent from Alain , Duke of Brittany and Howards ; the other , Camden writes , was proud Earl of Richmond , Yorkshire , which also ended in the marriage of two daughters , one to the head of the Stapleton family ...
... head of the of its descent from Alain , Duke of Brittany and Howards ; the other , Camden writes , was proud Earl of Richmond , Yorkshire , which also ended in the marriage of two daughters , one to the head of the Stapleton family ...
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Page 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Page 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Page 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
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Page 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Page 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Page 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Page 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Page 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,