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... perhaps ; but this is all that the " ex- planation " offered comes to . HIPPOCLIDES . BOXING DAY ( 9th S. iv . 477 ) .— Among seven examples in the O.E. Pottery Department of the British Museum of the medieval globular earthenware ...
... perhaps ; but this is all that the " ex- planation " offered comes to . HIPPOCLIDES . BOXING DAY ( 9th S. iv . 477 ) .— Among seven examples in the O.E. Pottery Department of the British Museum of the medieval globular earthenware ...
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... perhaps , in the honours and mata- dores . The objects of the games are quite different ( as well as the methods ) . In whist and bridge , it is tricks numerically ; in skat , the values contained in the tricks - which Hawkwood , Hallam ...
... perhaps , in the honours and mata- dores . The objects of the games are quite different ( as well as the methods ) . In whist and bridge , it is tricks numerically ; in skat , the values contained in the tricks - which Hawkwood , Hallam ...
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... perhaps because not American . It is very unsafe to meddle with English university matters without securing expert knowledge . The term Senior Wrangler is current - not obsolete , as these pages represent ; and if this special title is ...
... perhaps because not American . It is very unsafe to meddle with English university matters without securing expert knowledge . The term Senior Wrangler is current - not obsolete , as these pages represent ; and if this special title is ...
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... perhaps the best of gifts - and in sim- plicity , has " the defects of its qualities , " and is open to attack . This , we know , is an unpopular view . With the remaining praise and the general estimate of Swift we concur , and we ...
... perhaps the best of gifts - and in sim- plicity , has " the defects of its qualities , " and is open to attack . This , we know , is an unpopular view . With the remaining praise and the general estimate of Swift we concur , and we ...
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... perhaps , that he had enriched the lan- guage with a word of which the etymology would mislead Upton and puzzle Dr. Johnson . " The Historical English Dictionary ' com- ments upon this : - 66 : - ' But no trace of this incident has yet ...
... perhaps , that he had enriched the lan- guage with a word of which the etymology would mislead Upton and puzzle Dr. Johnson . " The Historical English Dictionary ' com- ments upon this : - 66 : - ' But no trace of this incident has yet ...
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Página 45 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Página 454 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 44 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 204 - Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht — Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Möcht ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn!
Página 331 - O'erhang his wavy bed; Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Página 372 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp.
Página 22 - Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
Página 197 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 259 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Página 204 - My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are...