Notes and QueriesOxford University Press, 1852 |
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... Queen Anne at Windsor . - Carved in a beam over the town hall of Much Wenlock , in Shropshire , stands ( or perhaps stood , for the building was very old thirty years since ) the following curious verses : " Hic locus odit , amat ...
... Queen Anne at Windsor . - Carved in a beam over the town hall of Much Wenlock , in Shropshire , stands ( or perhaps stood , for the building was very old thirty years since ) the following curious verses : " Hic locus odit , amat ...
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... Queen Elizabeth , soe as she needes must be 140 yeares old : shee had a newe sett of teeth not long before her death , and might have lived much longer , had shee not mett with a kind of violent death ; for she must needes climb a nutt ...
... Queen Elizabeth , soe as she needes must be 140 yeares old : shee had a newe sett of teeth not long before her death , and might have lived much longer , had shee not mett with a kind of violent death ; for she must needes climb a nutt ...
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... QUEENS of SCOTLAND , and ENGLISH PRINCESSES connected with the Regal Succession . By AGNES STRICKLAND . Vols . I. and ... Queen of Scots . Post 8vo . 10s . 6d . By the same Author , MEMOIRS and ADVEN- TURES of Sir JOHN HEPBURN , Knight ...
... QUEENS of SCOTLAND , and ENGLISH PRINCESSES connected with the Regal Succession . By AGNES STRICKLAND . Vols . I. and ... Queen of Scots . Post 8vo . 10s . 6d . By the same Author , MEMOIRS and ADVEN- TURES of Sir JOHN HEPBURN , Knight ...
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... Queen Bru- néhaut- " Essex Broad Oak " - Frozen Sounds and Sir John Mandeville , & c . - MISCELLANEOUS : - - Notes on Books , Sales , Catalogues , & c . Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents . Advertisements Notes ...
... Queen Bru- néhaut- " Essex Broad Oak " - Frozen Sounds and Sir John Mandeville , & c . - MISCELLANEOUS : - - Notes on Books , Sales , Catalogues , & c . Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents . Advertisements Notes ...
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... Queen Elizabeth for Instance , Numbers and Harmony were carried to a great Perfection by the Earl of Surry , Spenser , and Fairfax ; in the Reign of James and Charles the First , they grew harsher ; at the Restora- tion , when Taste and ...
... Queen Elizabeth for Instance , Numbers and Harmony were carried to a great Perfection by the Earl of Surry , Spenser , and Fairfax ; in the Reign of James and Charles the First , they grew harsher ; at the Restora- tion , when Taste and ...
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Էջ 76 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Էջ 336 - A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light...
Էջ 32 - And I will come down and talk with thee there : and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Էջ 175 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place...
Էջ 293 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell," who rudely called Hobbes " irritabile illud ct vanissimum Malmsburiense animal.
Էջ 116 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a papermill.
Էջ 129 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same, unto whom a body politic, compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of spiritualty and temporalty, be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience...
Էջ 151 - It is astonishing how little obsolete the language of it is, even at this day ; and in point of perspicuity and noble simplicity, propriety of idiom, and purity of style, no English version has yet surpassed it.
Էջ 107 - The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow : at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear; And floating about the under-sky, Prevailing in weakness the coronach...
Էջ 99 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...