Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston |
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... Things . Broken Friendship Ode to the Nightingale Carpe Diem From Coleridge's " Christabel " PAGE Alain Chartier 163 Chas . D ' Orleans 164 Ibid 164 Oliver Basselin 164 Burton 165 Sir John Suckling 166 Burleigh 167 Old Ballad 167 Fuller ...
... Things . Broken Friendship Ode to the Nightingale Carpe Diem From Coleridge's " Christabel " PAGE Alain Chartier 163 Chas . D ' Orleans 164 Ibid 164 Oliver Basselin 164 Burton 165 Sir John Suckling 166 Burleigh 167 Old Ballad 167 Fuller ...
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... Thing Needful Rhyme and Reason Anagrams Kisses A Quarrelsome Fellow . The Tippling Vicar The Siege of Belgrade . Five Reasons for Drinking Woman's Will Number Nine EPIGRAMS , - On Sir Thomas More On Garibaldi Bad Music The Declaration ...
... Thing Needful Rhyme and Reason Anagrams Kisses A Quarrelsome Fellow . The Tippling Vicar The Siege of Belgrade . Five Reasons for Drinking Woman's Will Number Nine EPIGRAMS , - On Sir Thomas More On Garibaldi Bad Music The Declaration ...
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... things , however . His mind was open as a child's for truth . It is most exhilarating to be beside him when he first discovered , studying the Greek language , after the Reformation had begun , that metanoia did not mean penances , but ...
... things , however . His mind was open as a child's for truth . It is most exhilarating to be beside him when he first discovered , studying the Greek language , after the Reformation had begun , that metanoia did not mean penances , but ...
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... things , " was not true ; but reading on , " by faith , ” put up his money , and said , “ Nay , nay , Paul , if that's the case I'll not bet with thee . " " PRESERVED " LADIES . AMONGST the curiosities and objects of interest to be seen ...
... things , " was not true ; but reading on , " by faith , ” put up his money , and said , “ Nay , nay , Paul , if that's the case I'll not bet with thee . " " PRESERVED " LADIES . AMONGST the curiosities and objects of interest to be seen ...
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... things on his own responsi- bility ; that is , without orders , or contrary to their spirit . Souworrow did more , for he dared to violate the positive orders of his commander , and staked his life upon the issue of an enterprise , not ...
... things on his own responsi- bility ; that is , without orders , or contrary to their spirit . Souworrow did more , for he dared to violate the positive orders of his commander , and staked his life upon the issue of an enterprise , not ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Ann Hathaway appear Aristotle beautiful Ben Jonson bird breath called Catherine of Valois character charm Cloth gilt Coloured curious death delight doth drink earth Edgar Poe English eyes fair father flowers fool genius give gold grace hand happy hath heart heaven Henry honour Horace Walpole human Joanna Southcott king lady laugh light live London look Lord Lord Byron man's married mind moral morning Nabal nature ne'er never night o'er Pepys person play pleasure poet poetry poor porringers Queen replied rhymes rich Rowland Yorke Saracens Shakspeare sleep song sorrow soul story sweet Talmud tell thee things Thomas Hood thou thought Tom Jones truth unto virtue W. A. Clouston wind wine wise woman word write young youth Zozimus
Passagens conhecidas
Página 195 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 196 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 128 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 195 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 45 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Página 158 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Página 66 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Página 195 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Página 196 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Página 154 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.