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... Illustrated London News for January , 1849 ( p . 58 ) . The notice ends with a remark to the effect that " all hope of an extensive application of the electric light must now be abandoned ; but we shall still rejoice if it can be ...
... Illustrated London News for January , 1849 ( p . 58 ) . The notice ends with a remark to the effect that " all hope of an extensive application of the electric light must now be abandoned ; but we shall still rejoice if it can be ...
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... ILLUSTRATED LAMB'S " TALES FROM SHAKESPEAR " ? - Bohn's Lowndes says " fourth edition , with twenty plates by William Blake , 1822. " The catalogues of the best informed book- sellers at the present day refine upon this , and describe ...
... ILLUSTRATED LAMB'S " TALES FROM SHAKESPEAR " ? - Bohn's Lowndes says " fourth edition , with twenty plates by William Blake , 1822. " The catalogues of the best informed book- sellers at the present day refine upon this , and describe ...
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... illustrated by Swedish gjuta , to pour ; flodgjuta , a floodgate , the outpouring of the floodwaters . Compare also gut , the outpouring of the animal frame ; the Gut of Gibraltar , the gate by which the Mediterranean pours into the ...
... illustrated by Swedish gjuta , to pour ; flodgjuta , a floodgate , the outpouring of the floodwaters . Compare also gut , the outpouring of the animal frame ; the Gut of Gibraltar , the gate by which the Mediterranean pours into the ...
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... illustrated by a little tale in Prof. Wilson's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life . Can any reader of " N. & Q. " inform me whether there is any clergyman of the English Church who observes the rubric of the Prayer Book which directs ...
... illustrated by a little tale in Prof. Wilson's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life . Can any reader of " N. & Q. " inform me whether there is any clergyman of the English Church who observes the rubric of the Prayer Book which directs ...
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... illustrated by Mulready , but from the style I should think more likely by Blake ; also a copy of the edition of 1857 , illustrated by Harvey . Bury St. Edmunds . WM . FREELOVE . THOMAS OTWAY , THE DRAMATIST ( 5th S. xi . 46. ) -Cibber ...
... illustrated by Mulready , but from the style I should think more likely by Blake ; also a copy of the edition of 1857 , illustrated by Harvey . Bury St. Edmunds . WM . FREELOVE . THOMAS OTWAY , THE DRAMATIST ( 5th S. xi . 46. ) -Cibber ...
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Page 110 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Page 26 - He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country : there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
Page 148 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 234 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 245 - Hence the good and happiness of the members — that is, the majority of the members — of any state, is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined...
Page 344 - Our life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Page 147 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Page 108 - Regulator, of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous, and liberal, his Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions, that he never went wrong, except when set a-going by people who did not know his Key : even then he was easily set right again.
Page 102 - For, madam, said Sir Launcelot, I love not to be constrained to love ; for love must arise of the heart, and not by no constraint. That is truth...
Page 435 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.