Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 pages |
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... famous boxing woman of Billingsgate twenty-nine minutes, and gained a complete victory (which is *ix years ago) ; but as the famous Stoke-Newington ass-woman dares me to fight her lor the ten pounds, I do assure her I will not fail ...
... famous boxing woman of Billingsgate twenty-nine minutes, and gained a complete victory (which is *ix years ago) ; but as the famous Stoke-Newington ass-woman dares me to fight her lor the ten pounds, I do assure her I will not fail ...
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... famous little groups. And you have but to turn to the pages of any modern periodical to recognize what excellent work, mostly unsigned and unacknowledged, but betraying the well-known characteristics of eminent artists, is done for ...
... famous little groups. And you have but to turn to the pages of any modern periodical to recognize what excellent work, mostly unsigned and unacknowledged, but betraying the well-known characteristics of eminent artists, is done for ...
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... famous : Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima, "Austria will be the last in the world, " and Austrian Est Imperare Orbi Universo, and Alles Erdreich 1st Oesterreich Unterthan, the last being a free translation into German of the Latin of the ...
... famous : Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima, "Austria will be the last in the world, " and Austrian Est Imperare Orbi Universo, and Alles Erdreich 1st Oesterreich Unterthan, the last being a free translation into German of the Latin of the ...
Page 53
... famous historical anagram refers to the siege of Troy by Alexander. That monarch was about to abandon the enterprise in despair, when he had a dream of a Satyr leaping before him, whom eventually, after many elusions, he caught. This ...
... famous historical anagram refers to the siege of Troy by Alexander. That monarch was about to abandon the enterprise in despair, when he had a dream of a Satyr leaping before him, whom eventually, after many elusions, he caught. This ...
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... with the famous mot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, when his son Thomas jestingly declared that he had no decided political principles, but would serve whatever party paid him best, and that he had a LITERARY CURIOSITIES. 63.
... with the famous mot of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, when his son Thomas jestingly declared that he had no decided political principles, but would serve whatever party paid him best, and that he had a LITERARY CURIOSITIES. 63.
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.