Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 pages |
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... Literature 658 Bookplate 112 Macaronic Literature 670 Bouts-rimls "5 Meiosis 696 Bulls, Irish and not Irish 124 Memoria Technica 698 Catch 141. Metaphors, Mixed 708 Charade 146 Mistakes of Authors 723 Chronogram 154 Monosyllable 735 ...
... Literature 658 Bookplate 112 Macaronic Literature 670 Bouts-rimls "5 Meiosis 696 Bulls, Irish and not Irish 124 Memoria Technica 698 Catch 141. Metaphors, Mixed 708 Charade 146 Mistakes of Authors 723 Chronogram 154 Monosyllable 735 ...
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... literature its earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard RolJe de Ham- pole (Early English Text Society Reprints, No. 26, p. 79) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane, So spire if thou may spede, Whare was then the pride of man ...
... literature its earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard RolJe de Ham- pole (Early English Text Society Reprints, No. 26, p. 79) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane, So spire if thou may spede, Whare was then the pride of man ...
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... literature of the seventeenth century. And how shall we account for the extraordinary homeliness uf the rogues and rascals of that period ? Hardly a criminal or a runaway but is described as "ugly as sin." They have ill-favored ...
... literature of the seventeenth century. And how shall we account for the extraordinary homeliness uf the rogues and rascals of that period ? Hardly a criminal or a runaway but is described as "ugly as sin." They have ill-favored ...
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... literature of other countries. But alliteration becomes a defect when excessively and injudiciously employed. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was allowed to run riot. Trapp's Commentary on the Bible offers the following ...
... literature of other countries. But alliteration becomes a defect when excessively and injudiciously employed. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was allowed to run riot. Trapp's Commentary on the Bible offers the following ...
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... literature, why should we wonder that the smaller men, who have command of a smaller vocabulary, and only an imperfect appreciation of the laws of rhetoric or even of grammar, should often find difficulty in rendering themselves ...
... literature, why should we wonder that the smaller men, who have command of a smaller vocabulary, and only an imperfect appreciation of the laws of rhetoric or even of grammar, should often find difficulty in rendering themselves ...
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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.