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... taken in order ) . MS.W. - the edition printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde , 1496 ; reprinted in London by White & Cockrane , 1810 . Ch . used by Chaucer . The first sentence of the third part explains the nature of the work , viz ...
... taken in order ) . MS.W. - the edition printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde , 1496 ; reprinted in London by White & Cockrane , 1810 . Ch . used by Chaucer . The first sentence of the third part explains the nature of the work , viz ...
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... taken place when Gow returned to Thurso , matters then stood , would gladly have gone off with him . Gow departed highly incensed , and after Katharine Rorison had settled down in Stroma , he visited the island with the intention of ...
... taken place when Gow returned to Thurso , matters then stood , would gladly have gone off with him . Gow departed highly incensed , and after Katharine Rorison had settled down in Stroma , he visited the island with the intention of ...
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... taken out of its earth , and in the other taken out of its dust . Be- sides , we talk in English of boning a hare or a leg of mutton , and we mean that we have unboned it . So that I think we had better leave the niceties of English in ...
... taken out of its earth , and in the other taken out of its dust . Be- sides , we talk in English of boning a hare or a leg of mutton , and we mean that we have unboned it . So that I think we had better leave the niceties of English in ...
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... taken from a lost Provençal romance by Arnaud Daniel , the author of the Table Ronde . The three romances , and he seems to think this romance was used by preceded by the Saint Graal history and Merlin , were abridged by Sir Thomas ...
... taken from a lost Provençal romance by Arnaud Daniel , the author of the Table Ronde . The three romances , and he seems to think this romance was used by preceded by the Saint Graal history and Merlin , were abridged by Sir Thomas ...
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... Taken as a statement of case , " it is impossible to entertain the suggestion put forth in Blackwood ; but perhaps the eminent Dantophilist who has ventured so far will be better satisfied with some attempted identification of the so ...
... Taken as a statement of case , " it is impossible to entertain the suggestion put forth in Blackwood ; but perhaps the eminent Dantophilist who has ventured so far will be better satisfied with some attempted identification of the so ...
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Page 13 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 436 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
Page 314 - WEEP, daughter of a royal line, A Sire's disgrace, a realm's decay ; Ah ! happy if each tear of thine Could wash a father's fault away ! Weep — for thy tears are Virtue's tears — Auspicious to these suffering isles J And be each drop in future years Repaid thee by thy people's smiles ! March, lSI1 THE CHAIN I GAVE.
Page 178 - There was a good number entertained with good cheer by the chamberlain ; and after dinner they went to hunting the fox : there was a great cry for a mile, and at length the hounds killed him at the end of St. Giles's.
Page 352 - 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 6 - Thus having said, the gallant chiefs alight, Their hands they join, their mutual faith they plight ; Brave Glaucus then each narrow thought resign'd, (Jove warm'd his bosom, and enlarged his mind,) For Diomed's brass arms, of mean device, For which nine oxen paid, (a vulgar price,) He gave his own, of gold divinely wrought," A hundred beeves the shining purchase bought.
Page 64 - HAPPY the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter fire.
Page 371 - She was, — but words are wanting to say what ; Think what a wife should be, and she was that !" Pope was fond of writing epitaphs.
Page 196 - tis true : The elder of them, being put to nurse, "Was by a beggar-woman stol'n away ; And, ignorant of his birth and parentage, Became a bricklayer when he came to age : His son am I ; deny it, if you can.
Page 11 - A solemn league and covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England. Scotland and Ireland.