Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of LiteratureA. D. Worthington & Company, 1875 - 862 pages |
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... death , are expressed in the following Latin anagram : — Maria Steuarda Scotorum Regina . Trusa vi Regnis , morte amara cado . In Taylor's Suddaine Turne of Fortune's Wheele , occurs the following very singular example : - But , holie ...
... death , are expressed in the following Latin anagram : — Maria Steuarda Scotorum Regina . Trusa vi Regnis , morte amara cado . In Taylor's Suddaine Turne of Fortune's Wheele , occurs the following very singular example : - But , holie ...
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... death of Charles , son of Philip II . of Spain , says : - If you desire to know the year , this chronogram will tell you : FILIVS ANTE DIEM PATRIOS INQVIRIT IN ANNOS . MDLVVIIIIIIII , or 1568 . The following commemorates the death of ...
... death of Charles , son of Philip II . of Spain , says : - If you desire to know the year , this chronogram will tell you : FILIVS ANTE DIEM PATRIOS INQVIRIT IN ANNOS . MDLVVIIIIIIII , or 1568 . The following commemorates the death of ...
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... Death will turn us soon from hence , Nigerrimas ad sedes ; And all our lands and all our pence Ditabunt tunc heredes . Why should we then forbear to sport ? Dum vivamus , vivamus , And when the Fates shall cut us down Contenti abeamus ...
... Death will turn us soon from hence , Nigerrimas ad sedes ; And all our lands and all our pence Ditabunt tunc heredes . Why should we then forbear to sport ? Dum vivamus , vivamus , And when the Fates shall cut us down Contenti abeamus ...
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... death , and let me die . Come , gentle death , the ebb of care ; The ebb of care the flood of life ; The flood of life , the joyful fare ; The joyful fare , the end of strife- The end of strife that thing wish I , Wherefore , come , death ...
... death , and let me die . Come , gentle death , the ebb of care ; The ebb of care the flood of life ; The flood of life , the joyful fare ; The joyful fare , the end of strife- The end of strife that thing wish I , Wherefore , come , death ...
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... death ; from hell set free ; Death , hell , are but the want of thee : My life , my only heav'n thou art , - O might I feel thee in my heart ! -C . WESLEY . The same writer , to show Shakspeare's fondness for small words , and their ...
... death ; from hell set free ; Death , hell , are but the want of thee : My life , my only heav'n thou art , - O might I feel thee in my heart ! -C . WESLEY . The same writer , to show Shakspeare's fondness for small words , and their ...
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