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... King's work: recently published books, such as Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King (2003) and The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window (2008), for example, focus solely on films adapted from King's novels or short ...
... King's work: recently published books, such as Magistrale's Hollywood's Stephen King (2003) and The Films of Stephen King: From Carrie to Secret Window (2008), for example, focus solely on films adapted from King's novels or short ...
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... King's pawn to king's fourth - square , my gallant knight : WALISLAS ( moving ) . King's pawn to king's fourth - square , your majesty . BOLESLAS . King's bishop's pawn moves to king's bishop's fourth . WALISLAS . Which I will take ...
... King's pawn to king's fourth - square , my gallant knight : WALISLAS ( moving ) . King's pawn to king's fourth - square , your majesty . BOLESLAS . King's bishop's pawn moves to king's bishop's fourth . WALISLAS . Which I will take ...
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... King's Colour are Union Flags , gold - fringed , with a Crown and the words King's African Rifles and the battalion numeral in a circle in the centre . The Regimental Colours are on royal blue grounds , with the centre similar to that ...
... King's Colour are Union Flags , gold - fringed , with a Crown and the words King's African Rifles and the battalion numeral in a circle in the centre . The Regimental Colours are on royal blue grounds , with the centre similar to that ...
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... king Agwisance , and king Idres , and the duke of Cambenet , and we five kings will have fifteen thousand men of arms with us , and we will go apart while ye six kings hold the meddle with twelve thousand , and when we see that ye have ...
... king Agwisance , and king Idres , and the duke of Cambenet , and we five kings will have fifteen thousand men of arms with us , and we will go apart while ye six kings hold the meddle with twelve thousand , and when we see that ye have ...
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... king. In 1151 it had been sufficient to pay tribute and swear the oath of fealty to King Øystein Haraldsson in order to be reinstated as earl, but in 1195 the king demanded more. According to Sverris saga, the king drew up a letter of ...
... king. In 1151 it had been sufficient to pay tribute and swear the oath of fealty to King Øystein Haraldsson in order to be reinstated as earl, but in 1195 the king demanded more. According to Sverris saga, the king drew up a letter of ...
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Էջ 36 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born.
Էջ 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
Էջ 129 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Էջ 205 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor...
Էջ 113 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was...
Էջ 209 - Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such employment. As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in Verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them.
Էջ 127 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Էջ 35 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Էջ 205 - ... modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both.
Էջ 154 - I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.