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Dyer's British Popular Customs , Present and Past . An Account of the various Games and Customs associated with different days of the year . By the Rev. T. F. THISELTON DYER , M.A. With Index . Early Travels in Palestine .
Dyer's British Popular Customs , Present and Past . An Account of the various Games and Customs associated with different days of the year . By the Rev. T. F. THISELTON DYER , M.A. With Index . Early Travels in Palestine .
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Page 33 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 30 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom sage! and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
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Page 27 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 393 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 365 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
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| Title | The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, Volume 6 Bohn's standard libr The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, Alexander Napier |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | Alexander Napier |
| Published | 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 Jun 2007 |
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