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... tell it still . Miss Foote , the celebrated actress , had become the wife of Lord Harrington . Queen Adelaide having objected to this lady attending her Court , Lord Harrington waited upon the Premier , and very clearly conveyed his ...
... tell it still . Miss Foote , the celebrated actress , had become the wife of Lord Harrington . Queen Adelaide having objected to this lady attending her Court , Lord Harrington waited upon the Premier , and very clearly conveyed his ...
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... tell me anything more about the meaning of this exceedingly interesting A. R. monosyllable ? BISHOP HUGO LLOYD . - I have a sketch made by the late Rev. C. Boutell from a mural slab bear- ing a monumental brass in the ante - chapel of ...
... tell me anything more about the meaning of this exceedingly interesting A. R. monosyllable ? BISHOP HUGO LLOYD . - I have a sketch made by the late Rev. C. Boutell from a mural slab bear- ing a monumental brass in the ante - chapel of ...
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... tell me who were the six friends of King Charles DEATH OF CHARLES I. - Can any of your readers who attended him to the scaffold , and what was the souvenir which he gave to each of these friends ? If medals , are any of them to be seen ...
... tell me who were the six friends of King Charles DEATH OF CHARLES I. - Can any of your readers who attended him to the scaffold , and what was the souvenir which he gave to each of these friends ? If medals , are any of them to be seen ...
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... tell him that in the Catalogue of Satirical MOON - LORE ( 7th S. v . 248 , 394 ) .— A little - read Prints in the British Museum ' he will find the names of many of the portraits he inquires poet of the fifth century , whom I have just ...
... tell him that in the Catalogue of Satirical MOON - LORE ( 7th S. v . 248 , 394 ) .— A little - read Prints in the British Museum ' he will find the names of many of the portraits he inquires poet of the fifth century , whom I have just ...
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... tell no tales , " neither do they make complaints . Ly- saght died in 1809 ; and Code's Burning of Mos- cow , ' in the first act of which ' The Sprig of Shillelagh ' is introduced , did not appear until 1813 . to Lysaght ( vol . iii . p ...
... tell no tales , " neither do they make complaints . Ly- saght died in 1809 ; and Code's Burning of Mos- cow , ' in the first act of which ' The Sprig of Shillelagh ' is introduced , did not appear until 1813 . to Lysaght ( vol . iii . p ...
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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...
Page 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
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,