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longs to our common Christianity , and the general eminently displayed , that all attempts at imitation have |. persons in whose libraries vellum - bound copies of Junius have been found . V. B. Sir Heister Ryley . - Who was the author ...
longs to our common Christianity , and the general eminently displayed , that all attempts at imitation have |. persons in whose libraries vellum - bound copies of Junius have been found . V. B. Sir Heister Ryley . - Who was the author ...
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... common scaffold confounds the most flinty hearts and the tenderest . However , it was in some measure the heartless part of Hatfield's conduct which drew upon him his ruin : for the Cumberland jury , as I have been told , declared their ...
... common scaffold confounds the most flinty hearts and the tenderest . However , it was in some measure the heartless part of Hatfield's conduct which drew upon him his ruin : for the Cumberland jury , as I have been told , declared their ...
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... common in Greek and Latin to admit of any doubt , eg . ἀρ - γαλέος and ἀλγαλέτος ; Sol and Sor- acte . With this premised , I think we may be justified in connecting the following word with one another . Dores , Dryopes with Σείριος ...
... common in Greek and Latin to admit of any doubt , eg . ἀρ - γαλέος and ἀλγαλέτος ; Sol and Sor- acte . With this premised , I think we may be justified in connecting the following word with one another . Dores , Dryopes with Σείριος ...
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... common cry , that Shakspeare borrowed his allusions from them . If so , how is it that his . expositors , with these old poets before their eyes all this time , together with their own scholarship to boot , have so widely mistaken the ...
... common cry , that Shakspeare borrowed his allusions from them . If so , how is it that his . expositors , with these old poets before their eyes all this time , together with their own scholarship to boot , have so widely mistaken the ...
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... common expression of the Northumbrians , " Far over near ( signifying " much too near " ) . H. T. RILEY . Miscellaneous . NOTES ON BOOKS , ETC. and papers for reading , worthy of the body - and there- fore unlike many which we have too ...
... common expression of the Northumbrians , " Far over near ( signifying " much too near " ) . H. T. RILEY . Miscellaneous . NOTES ON BOOKS , ETC. and papers for reading , worthy of the body - and there- fore unlike many which we have too ...
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Page 309 - a should not think of God ; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet: So, 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet : I put my hand into the bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone ; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page 113 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 308 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
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Page 84 - MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER'S Flowers of History, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain, from the beginning of the World to AD 1307. By CD Yonge. 2 vols. NENNIUS. Chronicle of.— See Six OE Chronicles. ORDERICUS VITALIS' Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy.
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Page 331 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.
Page 211 - They say, miracles are past; and we -have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
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