The Animal-lore of Shakespeare's TimeK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1883 - 476 pages |
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... referred to by the Elizabethan poets . Caliban warns his companions to be silent : — " Pray you , tread softly , that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall : we now are near his cell . " ( Tempest , iv . 1 , 195. ) " Ye work and work ...
... referred to by the Elizabethan poets . Caliban warns his companions to be silent : — " Pray you , tread softly , that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall : we now are near his cell . " ( Tempest , iv . 1 , 195. ) " Ye work and work ...
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... referred to represents a spaniel clipped after the fashion of the French poodle of our own day . Setter . The Setting - dogge , or Setter , was a large land spaniel , probably similar in appearance to his modern namesake . His mode of ...
... referred to represents a spaniel clipped after the fashion of the French poodle of our own day . Setter . The Setting - dogge , or Setter , was a large land spaniel , probably similar in appearance to his modern namesake . His mode of ...
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... referred to , is now almost extinct . The useful little Whappet , or Turnspit , needs no description . To write a full description of the various dogs known at this period would require , not a chapter , but a volume . Many interesting ...
... referred to , is now almost extinct . The useful little Whappet , or Turnspit , needs no description . To write a full description of the various dogs known at this period would require , not a chapter , but a volume . Many interesting ...
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Emma Phipson. The animal lette here mentioned probably supplied the lettice fur already referred to . The wearing of sable was prohibited by statute in the reign of Queen Mary , to any one below the rank of earl . Gowns furred with sable ...
Emma Phipson. The animal lette here mentioned probably supplied the lettice fur already referred to . The wearing of sable was prohibited by statute in the reign of Queen Mary , to any one below the rank of earl . Gowns furred with sable ...
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... referred to in the Bible was the seal , or dugong ; both of which animals , together with the dolphin , are found in consider- able abundance in the Red Sea . The badger is also spoken of as furnishing the sandals of the Jewish women ...
... referred to in the Bible was the seal , or dugong ; both of which animals , together with the dolphin , are found in consider- able abundance in the Red Sea . The badger is also spoken of as furnishing the sandals of the Jewish women ...
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Page 331 - I tell you, captain, — if you look in the maps of the "orld, I warrant you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon ; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 373 - Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces, of the smallest spider's web, The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...
Page 105 - In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone.
Page 425 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Page 436 - Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 387 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 96 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 173 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 401 - Tis true : there's magic in the web of it : A sibyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work : The worms were hallow' d that did breed the silk; And it was dyed in mummy, which the skilful Conserved of maidens
Page 304 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby : Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh ; So, good night, with lullaby.