Death and Liffe: An Alliterative PoemJohn Marcellus Steadman (Jr.) University, 1918 - 72 pages |
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... accompanied cannot mean à peu près , about ' or ' almost . ' That would be like adding to modern presque the words à peu près , and almost about , ' almost 6 6 almost ' is a queer thing to say , Some English and Old French Phrases.
... accompanied cannot mean à peu près , about ' or ' almost . ' That would be like adding to modern presque the words à peu près , and almost about , ' almost 6 6 almost ' is a queer thing to say , Some English and Old French Phrases.
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... thing to say , though I am not ready to assert that it was absolutely impossible in Old French . But as good as , ' ' the same practically as ' does allow a preceding almost , ' and that accordingly seems preferable . " 6 · que Discuss ...
... thing to say , though I am not ready to assert that it was absolutely impossible in Old French . But as good as , ' ' the same practically as ' does allow a preceding almost , ' and that accordingly seems preferable . " 6 · que Discuss ...
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... thing in a nutshell , in short , to sum up , the sum and substance is , etc. 8. Love me , love my dog . An example of this proverb , s . v . love in the Oxford Dict . is dated 1546 , but it is doubtless older . In Gautier d'Arras ...
... thing in a nutshell , in short , to sum up , the sum and substance is , etc. 8. Love me , love my dog . An example of this proverb , s . v . love in the Oxford Dict . is dated 1546 , but it is doubtless older . In Gautier d'Arras ...
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... things sprout as yet upon them to hide their nakedness ; but they hold seed of roots and their hidden wealth will soon answer the rain . In the heart of the vale a brook twinkles and buttercups lie in pools of gold , where lambs are ...
... things sprout as yet upon them to hide their nakedness ; but they hold seed of roots and their hidden wealth will soon answer the rain . In the heart of the vale a brook twinkles and buttercups lie in pools of gold , where lambs are ...
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... thing he read or heard his own , and his own he would easily improve to the greatest advantage . He seemed to be born to that only which he went about , so dextrous was he in all his undertakings , in court , camp , by sea , by land ...
... thing he read or heard his own , and his own he would easily improve to the greatest advantage . He seemed to be born to that only which he went about , so dextrous was he in all his undertakings , in court , camp , by sea , by land ...
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Page 161 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 159 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow ; — there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship ; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Page 179 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Page 186 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 188 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 142 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 146 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagiou, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 135 - Yea, Truth and Justice then Will down return to men, Orb'd in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing, Mercy will sit between Throned in celestial sheen, With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering; And Heaven, as at some festival, Will open wide the gates of her high palace-hall.
Page 163 - ... language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much lo be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 174 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...