Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 էջ |
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... early French poets, from the time of Francis I. to that of Louis XIV., were fond of this trifling. But it was carried to its most wasteful and ridiculous excess by the Elizabethan poets. Sir John Davies has a series of no less than ...
... early French poets, from the time of Francis I. to that of Louis XIV., were fond of this trifling. But it was carried to its most wasteful and ridiculous excess by the Elizabethan poets. Sir John Davies has a series of no less than ...
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... earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard RolJe de Ham- pole (Early English Text Society Reprints, No. 26, p. 79) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane, So spire if thou may spede, Whare was then the pride of man That now metres ...
... earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard RolJe de Ham- pole (Early English Text Society Reprints, No. 26, p. 79) : When Adam dalfe and Eue spane, So spire if thou may spede, Whare was then the pride of man That now metres ...
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... early news-books, preserved in the British Museum. The book is dated 1591, without any indication as to the place of issue. The advertisement is half in prose and half in verse, and, like its English successor which we have just quoted ...
... early news-books, preserved in the British Museum. The book is dated 1591, without any indication as to the place of issue. The advertisement is half in prose and half in verse, and, like its English successor which we have just quoted ...
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... early alphabets, which minimized the necessary symbols to the smallest possible quota, all modern systems of writing, — the Northern Runes, the Roman alphabet, which has now finally superseded its parent Greek, the square Hebrew of the ...
... early alphabets, which minimized the necessary symbols to the smallest possible quota, all modern systems of writing, — the Northern Runes, the Roman alphabet, which has now finally superseded its parent Greek, the square Hebrew of the ...
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... early thirst for knowledge stimulated by the descriptive verses of which this is the first line, and the ... earliest example. Speaking of periodical literature, he declares that the Golden Age of Magazines has passed away : " In those ...
... early thirst for knowledge stimulated by the descriptive verses of which this is the first line, and the ... earliest example. Speaking of periodical literature, he declares that the Golden Age of Magazines has passed away : " In those ...
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Էջ 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Էջ 740 - 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.
Էջ 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Էջ 739 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Էջ 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Էջ 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Էջ 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Էջ 417 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Էջ 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Էջ 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.