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... written indistinctly , it may have strongly resembled . I therefore think that we may read with some confidence : 66 99 Spread thy close curtains , love - performing Night , That rumourers ' eyes may wink , and Romeo Leap to these arms ...
... written indistinctly , it may have strongly resembled . I therefore think that we may read with some confidence : 66 99 Spread thy close curtains , love - performing Night , That rumourers ' eyes may wink , and Romeo Leap to these arms ...
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... written indistinctly , it may have strongly resembled . I therefore think that we may read with some confidence : 66 " 9 Spread thy close curtains , love - performing Night , That rumourers ' eyes may wink , and Romeo Leap to these arms ...
... written indistinctly , it may have strongly resembled . I therefore think that we may read with some confidence : 66 " 9 Spread thy close curtains , love - performing Night , That rumourers ' eyes may wink , and Romeo Leap to these arms ...
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... written by Professor Wilson . Maginn's contributions were at first under various signatures , and some time elapsed ... writing the word , how- ever , soon disappeared , for in a treatise of Pemble's , printed 1635 ( the author died in ...
... written by Professor Wilson . Maginn's contributions were at first under various signatures , and some time elapsed ... writing the word , how- ever , soon disappeared , for in a treatise of Pemble's , printed 1635 ( the author died in ...
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... written at a different time than the rest , because part differed from the rest in the shade of the ink . The follow- ing conclusions have been the result of my ob- servations upon the subject : 1. That if the ink of part of a writing ...
... written at a different time than the rest , because part differed from the rest in the shade of the ink . The follow- ing conclusions have been the result of my ob- servations upon the subject : 1. That if the ink of part of a writing ...
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... written either in his own hand , as rough draughts , or copied ( apparently by a female scribe ) and afterwards corrected by himself . Among the poetry in this MS . I find the greater part of the entitled " The State of England in the ...
... written either in his own hand , as rough draughts , or copied ( apparently by a female scribe ) and afterwards corrected by himself . Among the poetry in this MS . I find the greater part of the entitled " The State of England in the ...
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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...
Page 38 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Page 210 - That run-away's eyes may wink ; and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of, and unseen ! — Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own beauties: or, if love be blind, It best agrees with night. — Come...
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.
Page 251 - Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet ; yet oft they quit...
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.
Page 264 - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?