Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talkSimpkin, Marshall, 1840 - 273 pages |
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... my 66 1 Pennant's Second Tour in Scotland , in Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels , vol . iii . p . 430 . 2 Sir James Balfour's Annales of Scotland , vol . iv . p . 161 . hands on your head . " He survived his ejection 24 CANT .
... my 66 1 Pennant's Second Tour in Scotland , in Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels , vol . iii . p . 430 . 2 Sir James Balfour's Annales of Scotland , vol . iv . p . 161 . hands on your head . " He survived his ejection 24 CANT .
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... James came in ; They never danc'd on any heath As when the time hath bin . By which wee note the fairies Were of the old profession : Their songs were Ave Maries , Their dances were procession . But now , alas ! they all are dead , Or ...
... James came in ; They never danc'd on any heath As when the time hath bin . By which wee note the fairies Were of the old profession : Their songs were Ave Maries , Their dances were procession . But now , alas ! they all are dead , Or ...
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... James VI . know that the most learned men of his time and nation occasionally discussed points of demonology in the solemn meetings of their univer- sities . One of the theses disputed at St Andrews in 1599 , under the auspices of the ...
... James VI . know that the most learned men of his time and nation occasionally discussed points of demonology in the solemn meetings of their univer- sities . One of the theses disputed at St Andrews in 1599 , under the auspices of the ...
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... James Gregory , the brother of the celebrated Savi- lian professor of astronomy in Oxford . In the year 1691 he succeeded his brother in the chair of mathe- matics in the University of Edinburgh , and held the office for thirty - three ...
... James Gregory , the brother of the celebrated Savi- lian professor of astronomy in Oxford . In the year 1691 he succeeded his brother in the chair of mathe- matics in the University of Edinburgh , and held the office for thirty - three ...
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... James Justice , son of Sir John Justice of Justicehall , with Margaret , daughter of Alexander Murray of Cringletie . They are inscribed " upon Mr Sharp's penitence and Mrs Justice's obdured- ness , both equally guilty of perjury and ...
... James Justice , son of Sir John Justice of Justicehall , with Margaret , daughter of Alexander Murray of Cringletie . They are inscribed " upon Mr Sharp's penitence and Mrs Justice's obdured- ness , both equally guilty of perjury and ...
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Page 144 - Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die ; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
Page 223 - Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between Heights which appear as lovers who have parted In hate, whose mining depths so intervene, That they can meet no more, though broken-hearted ; Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed : Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 30 - Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 35 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished , They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 31 - For ther as wont to walken was an elf, Ther walketh now the lymytour hymself In undermeles and in morwenynges, And seyth his matyns and his hooly thynges As he gooth in his lymytacioun.
Page 220 - His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 182 - I had no sooner spoken these words, but a loud, though yet gentle noise came from the heavens (for it was like nothing on earth), which did so comfort and cheer me that I took my petition as granted, and that I had the sign I demanded, whereupon, also, I resolved to print my book.
Page 174 - An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 157 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 72 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.