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الصفحة 15
... meaning found no difficulty in re- cognising that comfort and support in all their trials that all good men should at all times be ready to afford their fellows . The tusks of the wild boar , we are told , cut like sharp knives when the ...
... meaning found no difficulty in re- cognising that comfort and support in all their trials that all good men should at all times be ready to afford their fellows . The tusks of the wild boar , we are told , cut like sharp knives when the ...
الصفحة 44
... means he stings and wounds them to death , " the following description : - " The Cockatrice is called the king of serpents , not from his bigness - for he is much inferior in this respect to many serpents - but because of his majestic ...
... means he stings and wounds them to death , " the following description : - " The Cockatrice is called the king of serpents , not from his bigness - for he is much inferior in this respect to many serpents - but because of his majestic ...
الصفحة 67
... means one who is deaf , we get a curious parallelism of ideas between the salamander deaf to all sense of pity , and insensible to all but its own fell purpose , and the old idea of the deafness of the poisonous adder . " Deaf as an ...
... means one who is deaf , we get a curious parallelism of ideas between the salamander deaf to all sense of pity , and insensible to all but its own fell purpose , and the old idea of the deafness of the poisonous adder . " Deaf as an ...
الصفحة 76
... means sur- prising that it should have attracted attention ; and when we recall the numerous erroneous beliefs current amongst our rustics in England in this nineteenth century in the matter of frogs , newts , slow - worms , and the ...
... means sur- prising that it should have attracted attention ; and when we recall the numerous erroneous beliefs current amongst our rustics in England in this nineteenth century in the matter of frogs , newts , slow - worms , and the ...
الصفحة 86
... meaning and deriva- tion of the word , that this is but a narrow and arbitrary limitation , and that Robin Hood , for example , or William Tell , to say nothing of " A , the archer that shot at a frog , " might as readily , in fact , be ...
... meaning and deriva- tion of the word , that this is but a narrow and arbitrary limitation , and that Robin Hood , for example , or William Tell , to say nothing of " A , the archer that shot at a frog , " might as readily , in fact , be ...
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الصفحة 74 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
الصفحة 91 - Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile; And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
الصفحة 154 - O LORD, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast THOU made them all : The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
الصفحة 178 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
الصفحة 35 - OLD stories tell, how Hercules A dragon slew at Lerna, With seven heads, and fourteen eyes, To see and well discern-a : But he had a club, this dragon to drub, Or he had ne'er done it, I warrant ye : But More of More-hall, with nothing at all, He slew the dragon of Wantley.
الصفحة 131 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
الصفحة 184 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
الصفحة 5 - I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
الصفحة 170 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace, or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out ; and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill : in short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
الصفحة 5 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?