Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 pages |
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... kings in the following strangely prophetic acrostic : N - apoleon , the Emperor , J - oseph , King of Spain , H - ieronymus [ Jerome ] , King of Westphalia , I - oachim , King of Naples , L - ouis , King of Holland . Another acrostic ...
... kings in the following strangely prophetic acrostic : N - apoleon , the Emperor , J - oseph , King of Spain , H - ieronymus [ Jerome ] , King of Westphalia , I - oachim , King of Naples , L - ouis , King of Holland . Another acrostic ...
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... King David , with harps and with lutes ; E was an Emperor , hailed with salutes ; F was a Funeral , followed by mutes ; G was a Gallant in Wellington boots ; H was a Hermit , and lived upon roots ; I was Justinian his Institutes ; K was ...
... King David , with harps and with lutes ; E was an Emperor , hailed with salutes ; F was a Funeral , followed by mutes ; G was a Gallant in Wellington boots ; H was a Hermit , and lived upon roots ; I was Justinian his Institutes ; K was ...
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... king , and of the court . It was abolished in 1791 , reintroduced in cases of sacrilege in 1826 , and finally abrogated in 1830 . American . Who reads an American book ? This famous query was originally propounded by Sydney Smith in a ...
... king , and of the court . It was abolished in 1791 , reintroduced in cases of sacrilege in 1826 , and finally abrogated in 1830 . American . Who reads an American book ? This famous query was originally propounded by Sydney Smith in a ...
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... king , and Tyre was taken . But , though good in its way , this is one of the illegitimate forms of anagram , arising not from the rearrangement or transposition of letters , but only from their redivision or resyllabification . Another ...
... king , and Tyre was taken . But , though good in its way , this is one of the illegitimate forms of anagram , arising not from the rearrangement or transposition of letters , but only from their redivision or resyllabification . Another ...
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... king wishes Cranmer to stand godfather to the Princess Elizabeth , and when the prelate excuses himself , saying , — How may I deserve it , That am a poor humble subject to you ? - the king jestingly responds , — Come , come , my lord ...
... king wishes Cranmer to stand godfather to the Princess Elizabeth , and when the prelate excuses himself , saying , — How may I deserve it , That am a poor humble subject to you ? - the king jestingly responds , — Come , come , my lord ...
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Page 739 - 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.
Page 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Page 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.
Page 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.