Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talkSimpkin, Marshall, 1840 - 273 pages |
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... turned his attention to this neglected field , 2 and by his laborious investi- gations has brought to light much interesting matter regarding our Anglo - Norman families . He justly regards as among the most curious of 1 Hatsell's ...
... turned his attention to this neglected field , 2 and by his laborious investi- gations has brought to light much interesting matter regarding our Anglo - Norman families . He justly regards as among the most curious of 1 Hatsell's ...
Page 67
... turned to good account ; many fairs were held on Sundays1 in churchyards ; and almost in every 1 " This practice , " says Mr Maclaurin , " was indeed dis- charged in Scotland by the act 1503 , c . 83 ; but it crept in again not long ...
... turned to good account ; many fairs were held on Sundays1 in churchyards ; and almost in every 1 " This practice , " says Mr Maclaurin , " was indeed dis- charged in Scotland by the act 1503 , c . 83 ; but it crept in again not long ...
Page 72
... turned it upside down , so that the ring fell on the table . " The room rang with applause ; but none was so noisy in ap- probation as the challenger , who declared the feat to be incredible . " What , " cried the poet , turning to him ...
... turned it upside down , so that the ring fell on the table . " The room rang with applause ; but none was so noisy in ap- probation as the challenger , who declared the feat to be incredible . " What , " cried the poet , turning to him ...
Page 106
... turned it that I had an opportunity of offering to provide you with a snuff - mull as a token of my respect for you and the institution , and that offer was in so kind and gentlemanly a manner accepted by you , that I esteem it the ...
... turned it that I had an opportunity of offering to provide you with a snuff - mull as a token of my respect for you and the institution , and that offer was in so kind and gentlemanly a manner accepted by you , that I esteem it the ...
Page 120
... turned ; and , amidst the loud shouts of laughter from without , he heard the voice of the pitanciary declaring , that he should never taste a second course until he had done justice to the first , the dainty dish set before him on the ...
... turned ; and , amidst the loud shouts of laughter from without , he heard the voice of the pitanciary declaring , that he should never taste a second course until he had done justice to the first , the dainty dish set before him on the ...
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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.