Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 pages |
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... turns , and showed them that he could do his business without them . It must have been very pleasant to have seen this Poet avoiding the reprobate letter as much as another would a false quantity , and making his escape from it ...
... turns , and showed them that he could do his business without them . It must have been very pleasant to have seen this Poet avoiding the reprobate letter as much as another would a false quantity , and making his escape from it ...
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... turns to A. B. C. ENIGMAS . THE letter E is thus enigmatically described : - The beginning of eternity , The end of time and space , The beginning of every end , The end of every place . The letter M is concealed in the following Latin ...
... turns to A. B. C. ENIGMAS . THE letter E is thus enigmatically described : - The beginning of eternity , The end of time and space , The beginning of every end , The end of every place . The letter M is concealed in the following Latin ...
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... turns up trumps ; But full cups , hurtful , spur up unjust thumps . A young English lady , on observing a gentleman's lane newly planted with lilacs , made this neat impromptu : - Let lovely lilacs line Lee's lonely lane . C 34 ...
... turns up trumps ; But full cups , hurtful , spur up unjust thumps . A young English lady , on observing a gentleman's lane newly planted with lilacs , made this neat impromptu : - Let lovely lilacs line Lee's lonely lane . C 34 ...
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... turn over a whole dictionary for one of these ingenious devices . A man would think they were searching after an apt classical term ; but in- stead of that they are looking out a word that has an L , an M , or a D , in it . When ...
... turn over a whole dictionary for one of these ingenious devices . A man would think they were searching after an apt classical term ; but in- stead of that they are looking out a word that has an L , an M , or a D , in it . When ...
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... turns . -An ancient maiden aunt , near seventy , a cheerful , venerable , and pleasant old lady , -lives in the house with us ; she is the de- light of both young and old ; she is ci- -vil to all the neighborhood round , generous and ...
... turns . -An ancient maiden aunt , near seventy , a cheerful , venerable , and pleasant old lady , -lives in the house with us ; she is the de- light of both young and old ; she is ci- -vil to all the neighborhood round , generous and ...
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Page 803 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 507 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 760 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 521 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Page 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Page 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Page 391 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Page 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Page 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.