Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 54
... John ? And pray what are you ? Let me see : Calvin : Jan Cul ; yes, that's about it !" And over Europe rushed the jest, as it had been a scavenger in the sky; and Calvin, we fancy, did not come out for a week. Perhaps, even in the time ...
... John ? And pray what are you ? Let me see : Calvin : Jan Cul ; yes, that's about it !" And over Europe rushed the jest, as it had been a scavenger in the sky; and Calvin, we fancy, did not come out for a week. Perhaps, even in the time ...
الصفحة 56
... John Bunyan : Nu hony in a B. Execrable ! one would naturally exclaim, but, as it is John's own work, we must be reverently dumb. General Butler: Genl. real brute. Thomas Carlyle: Cry shame to all; or, Mercy, lash a lot; or, A lot cry ...
... John Bunyan : Nu hony in a B. Execrable ! one would naturally exclaim, but, as it is John's own work, we must be reverently dumb. General Butler: Genl. real brute. Thomas Carlyle: Cry shame to all; or, Mercy, lash a lot; or, A lot cry ...
الصفحة 57
... John Dryden : Rhino deny'd, — which was Glorious John's life-long com* plaint, in his own spelling, too. Phineas Fletcher: Hath Spencer life? A very good anagram, for in the age after Spenser's death, Phineas Fletcher had more of his ...
... John Dryden : Rhino deny'd, — which was Glorious John's life-long com* plaint, in his own spelling, too. Phineas Fletcher: Hath Spencer life? A very good anagram, for in the age after Spenser's death, Phineas Fletcher had more of his ...
الصفحة 61
... John, you were drunk on Sunday?" " Yes, massa." " Monday, too ?" " Yes, massa." And so on up to Friday, eliciting the same response. " But, John," remonstrated the manager quietly, " you know you can't be an angel altogether." The story ...
... John, you were drunk on Sunday?" " Yes, massa." " Monday, too ?" " Yes, massa." And so on up to Friday, eliciting the same response. " But, John," remonstrated the manager quietly, " you know you can't be an angel altogether." The story ...
الصفحة 62
... John Norris of Bemerton (1656-1711), who has the following lines in his poem " The Parting :" How fading are the joys we dote upon I Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight ^ Are the most exquisite and ...
... John Norris of Bemerton (1656-1711), who has the following lines in his poem " The Parting :" How fading are the joys we dote upon I Like apparitions seen and gone ; But those which soonest take their flight ^ Are the most exquisite and ...
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الصفحة 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
الصفحة 740 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
الصفحة 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
الصفحة 739 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
الصفحة 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
الصفحة 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
الصفحة 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
الصفحة 417 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
الصفحة 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
الصفحة 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.