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... translations : - Fables , Ancient and Modern , translated into verse from Homer , Ovid , Boccace , and Chaucer , by Mr. Dryden , " folio ( Lond . , 1700 ) . Contains " The Knight's Tale " and " Nun's Priest's Tale " by Chaucer ; several ...
... translations : - Fables , Ancient and Modern , translated into verse from Homer , Ovid , Boccace , and Chaucer , by Mr. Dryden , " folio ( Lond . , 1700 ) . Contains " The Knight's Tale " and " Nun's Priest's Tale " by Chaucer ; several ...
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... translation among Marlowe's works . Douce is not very accurate as a rule , but his quo- tation must have been taken from some translation . At what Hour did the Matins Bell ring ? - " The curfew bell hath rung , ' tis three o'clock ...
... translation among Marlowe's works . Douce is not very accurate as a rule , but his quo- tation must have been taken from some translation . At what Hour did the Matins Bell ring ? - " The curfew bell hath rung , ' tis three o'clock ...
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... Translation , Notes , and an Introduction containing the Elements of Grammar , by L. BRAUNFELS and A. C. WHITE ... Translated into according to Dr. Becker's Views . With a Complete Course of Exercises . - KEY to the Exercises , 12mo ...
... Translation , Notes , and an Introduction containing the Elements of Grammar , by L. BRAUNFELS and A. C. WHITE ... Translated into according to Dr. Becker's Views . With a Complete Course of Exercises . - KEY to the Exercises , 12mo ...
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... Translation out of the French . With an Ode in memory of Her late Majesty Queen Mary . By a Person of Quality , " Poema est Pictura loquens . " Imprint as before . Pp . 16 . Baucis and Philemon : a Poem on the ever lamented Loss of the ...
... Translation out of the French . With an Ode in memory of Her late Majesty Queen Mary . By a Person of Quality , " Poema est Pictura loquens . " Imprint as before . Pp . 16 . Baucis and Philemon : a Poem on the ever lamented Loss of the ...
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... translated Lamia in the Vulgate , and in Coverdale's , Matthew's , Becke's Bibles , the Great Bible , Bishops ' Bible , & c ... translation , Bohn , 1855 , p . 25 ) . The story is versified by Dryden in his Translations from Boccace . A ...
... translated Lamia in the Vulgate , and in Coverdale's , Matthew's , Becke's Bibles , the Great Bible , Bishops ' Bible , & c ... translation , Bohn , 1855 , p . 25 ) . The story is versified by Dryden in his Translations from Boccace . A ...
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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 22 - Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you, That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew ? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead ? No, neither he, nor his compeers by night Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
Page 375 - Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men...
Page 384 - LIBRARY EDITION, with all the Original Illustrations, Maps, Landscapes on Steel, Woodcuts, &c. 2 vols. 4to. 48s. INTERMEDIATE EDITION, with a Selection of Maps, Plates, and Woodcuts. 2 vols. square crown 8vo. 21s. STUDENT'S EDITION, revised and condensed, with 46 Illustrations and Maps.
Page 128 - Shovel's monument has very often "given me great offence; instead of the brave rough English admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state. The inscription is answerable to the monument; for instead of celebrating the many remarkable actions he had performed in the service of his country, it acquaints us only with the manner...
Page 244 - 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 326 - 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 186 - MANY a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
Page 391 - Wahnapitae is three-quarters of a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in breadth., and 165 feet deep.
Page 244 - ... 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. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee...