Relics of LiteratureT. Boys, 1823 - 400 pages |
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... truths they hide , but those they show ; And vulgar reason finds , that none knows more Than that which he can make another know . Sir W. Davenant . THE FIRST ENGLISH CATALOGUE . THE first digested list of publications in the English ...
... truths they hide , but those they show ; And vulgar reason finds , that none knows more Than that which he can make another know . Sir W. Davenant . THE FIRST ENGLISH CATALOGUE . THE first digested list of publications in the English ...
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... truth , and left to her the third part of the isle of Britain , together with the man she should choose in the island for her husband . And then he called to him Cordeilla , his youngest daughter , and whom he loved the most of all ...
... truth , and left to her the third part of the isle of Britain , together with the man she should choose in the island for her husband . And then he called to him Cordeilla , his youngest daughter , and whom he loved the most of all ...
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... truths and inspiring hopes of Christianity , Gray , with the exception of two or three some- what equivocal ... truth divine , sublimer hopes inspired , And urged them onward to a nobler aim . " From every cottage , with the day ...
... truths and inspiring hopes of Christianity , Gray , with the exception of two or three some- what equivocal ... truth divine , sublimer hopes inspired , And urged them onward to a nobler aim . " From every cottage , with the day ...
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... truth's eternal fountain drew The pure and gladdening waters day by day ; Learnt , since our days are evil , fleet ... Truths which their zeal inflame , their hopes inspire , Give wings to faith , and check affliction's tear . " When ...
... truth's eternal fountain drew The pure and gladdening waters day by day ; Learnt , since our days are evil , fleet ... Truths which their zeal inflame , their hopes inspire , Give wings to faith , and check affliction's tear . " When ...
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... Truth is stated to reside . Laugh not , ye wild Reformists ; those who view My streams with care , will see reflected - you . IN I know not what century after the flood , ( the reader can look into Blair's tables of chronology , ) a ...
... Truth is stated to reside . Laugh not , ye wild Reformists ; those who view My streams with care , will see reflected - you . IN I know not what century after the flood , ( the reader can look into Blair's tables of chronology , ) a ...
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Adderbury anagram appears baconne bishop body British Museum called Charles Christian church copy Cordeilla Countess of Rochester court curious daughter dear death devil divine duke earl Earl of Litchfield England English epigram fair father fortune foul papers frae France French gentleman give grace Gruoch half sheets hand happy hath haue heart heaven Henry honour husband isle of Britain James John Kenneth IV king king's knights lady land letter live Llyr London lord Lord Wilmot Macbeth majesty mind never Oliver Cromwell papers parliament person PHILIP MASSINGER poem poet poor pray present prince printed queen received reign Rochester Rome Scotland Selcraige sent servant shal sheets in folio shew soul thee things thou thought translation truth unto Voltaire Whichenour wife wine Witcham words write written yame
Popular passages
Page 339 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest: welcome at an inn.
Page 398 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 14 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
Page 200 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 395 - And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
Page 87 - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 68 - The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall, At every stroke the oars did tears let fall ; More clung about the barge ; fish under water Wept out their eyes ofpearle, and swome blind after.
Page 14 - I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.
Page 291 - ... would become, without the belief of a God^ how palsied would be human benevolence, were there not the sense...
Page 291 - ... to uprightness and the public good ; that an oath is unheard in heaven ; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator...