Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 81
Página 31
... whole nature, abandon the tenderest ties, and make it forever bankrupt of every true and proper feeling. Remorse, and one day you will feel it. On November 1, 1855, he breaks out, — By that bitter cup you have given, and I drank to the ...
... whole nature, abandon the tenderest ties, and make it forever bankrupt of every true and proper feeling. Remorse, and one day you will feel it. On November 1, 1855, he breaks out, — By that bitter cup you have given, and I drank to the ...
Página 89
... whole husband who has thus rendered himself guilty towards thee." " Not thy whole husband ?" echoed the startled sheik. "Nay," she continued, "it is but the half of him that has committed the insult ; for am I not the other half, — I ...
... whole husband who has thus rendered himself guilty towards thee." " Not thy whole husband ?" echoed the startled sheik. "Nay," she continued, "it is but the half of him that has committed the insult ; for am I not the other half, — I ...
Página 111
... whole boodle of them (I remonstrated against this word, but the Professor said it was a diabolish good word, and he would have no other), with their wives and children, shipwrecked on a remote island, just to see how splendidly they ...
... whole boodle of them (I remonstrated against this word, but the Professor said it was a diabolish good word, and he would have no other), with their wives and children, shipwrecked on a remote island, just to see how splendidly they ...
Página 112
... whole number of bookplates in the seventeenth century is very small, amounting only to those of thirteen persons, some of whom, however, had two. As to the name " bookplate," that seems to be of still later date, and cannot be traced ...
... whole number of bookplates in the seventeenth century is very small, amounting only to those of thirteen persons, some of whom, however, had two. As to the name " bookplate," that seems to be of still later date, and cannot be traced ...
Página 119
... whole life is spent in Boycotting and being Boycotted. The part which the institution plays in the Mosaic law is well known, and so stringent are the rules of " uncleanliness" that a great part of the community must have daily found ...
... whole life is spent in Boycotting and being Boycotted. The part which the institution plays in the Mosaic law is well known, and so stringent are the rules of " uncleanliness" that a great part of the community must have daily found ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
acrostic admiration advertisements American anagram ancient answer appeared asked Ben Jonson called century Charles common cried curious dead death Diogenes Laertius doth Duke Echo England English epigram epitaph essay expression eyes famous father fool France French gentleman give Goethe Greek hand hath head heart heaven Henry honor Horace Walpole horse Hudibras humor Iliad John king known lady language Latin letter lines literary literature live London look Lord Lord Byron macaronic meaning mind modern never Notes and Queries once origin person phrase Plutarch poem poet political Pope popular proverb Publius Syrus quoted replied says sense Shakespeare slang soul speech stanza story tell term thee things thou thought tion told turn verse Victor Hugo Voltaire wife word write wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 740 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Página 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Página 739 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Página 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Página 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Página 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 417 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Página 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.