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... correspondent , but he would have to go to the British Museum to get at them all . ST . SWITHIN . This miracle is first recorded in the monk Goscelin's Vita S. Swithuni , ' printed by Surius , and also apud Acta Sanctorum ( July 2 ) ...
... correspondent , but he would have to go to the British Museum to get at them all . ST . SWITHIN . This miracle is first recorded in the monk Goscelin's Vita S. Swithuni , ' printed by Surius , and also apud Acta Sanctorum ( July 2 ) ...
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... correspondent and the Chapter Librarian to examine the books and wallpaper with a powerful glass . They will at once understand the presence of the tits . 66 I am no entomologist , and cannot name the insect the bird is waging war upon ...
... correspondent and the Chapter Librarian to examine the books and wallpaper with a powerful glass . They will at once understand the presence of the tits . 66 I am no entomologist , and cannot name the insect the bird is waging war upon ...
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... correspondent is looking for . I send a copy of the seven verses . The first verse is almost exactly as quoted by M. G. W. P. 1. All you that are to mirth inclined , Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In ...
... correspondent is looking for . I send a copy of the seven verses . The first verse is almost exactly as quoted by M. G. W. P. 1. All you that are to mirth inclined , Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In ...
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... correspondent to know that there is ( or was ) a Madam Thunder , head of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Aberdeen . J. M. BULLOCH . DUCHESSES WHO HAVE MARRIED COM- MONERS ( 11 S. xii . 501 ) .— Jean Drummond , widow of James , second ...
... correspondent to know that there is ( or was ) a Madam Thunder , head of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Aberdeen . J. M. BULLOCH . DUCHESSES WHO HAVE MARRIED COM- MONERS ( 11 S. xii . 501 ) .— Jean Drummond , widow of James , second ...
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... correspondent of " N. & Q. can add to my little list of suppositi- tions republics . ROBERT PIERPOINT . Fr. habitacle , originally a hut or sleeping- closet , came to mean a shrine , as in Littré's sixteenth - century quotation : " Au ...
... correspondent of " N. & Q. can add to my little list of suppositi- tions republics . ROBERT PIERPOINT . Fr. habitacle , originally a hut or sleeping- closet , came to mean a shrine , as in Littré's sixteenth - century quotation : " Au ...
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Page 283 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 346 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 284 - Wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se and stands alone) it is not itself — it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen.
Page 245 - ... you shall be governed by laws of your own making, and live a free, and, if you will, a sober and industrious people. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person.
Page 434 - And ever near us, though unseen. The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life — there are no dead.
Page 199 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain — that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Page 367 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Page 380 - Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago." Drake he's in his hammock till the great Armadas come, (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?), Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum, An' dreamin' arl the time o
Page 40 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 284 - A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven. Can all that Optics teach, unfold Thy form to please me so, As when I...