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... readers will supply a better solution of my difficulty . I hope in the next number of " N. & Q. " to pub- lish a few remarks on Shakespeare's silence about Scotchmen and silver forks ; incongruous topics , but interesting , because they ...
... readers will supply a better solution of my difficulty . I hope in the next number of " N. & Q. " to pub- lish a few remarks on Shakespeare's silence about Scotchmen and silver forks ; incongruous topics , but interesting , because they ...
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... Readers of Shakespeare , 27- Ruthven Peer- age : meaning of " Heirs , " 23 - The Dragon of Wantley , 29 Pury Papers , Ib . - Contributions from foreign Ballad Literature , 30 - The Court of Piepoudre , 32 - Early mention of Turner Greek ...
... Readers of Shakespeare , 27- Ruthven Peer- age : meaning of " Heirs , " 23 - The Dragon of Wantley , 29 Pury Papers , Ib . - Contributions from foreign Ballad Literature , 30 - The Court of Piepoudre , 32 - Early mention of Turner Greek ...
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... readers tell us whether this bird has ever been seen in England before ? And if not , explain the fact of its first making its appearance in the place ; and at the time when tigs , its peculiar food , were first largely produced in this ...
... readers tell us whether this bird has ever been seen in England before ? And if not , explain the fact of its first making its appearance in the place ; and at the time when tigs , its peculiar food , were first largely produced in this ...
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... readers inform me whether this scarce volume contains any poetical and dramatic sketches ? R. I. [ This volume of Selections contains a Memoir of John St. Mawe , Miscellaneous Poems , pp . 1 to 170 , and ends with six of the author's ...
... readers inform me whether this scarce volume contains any poetical and dramatic sketches ? R. I. [ This volume of Selections contains a Memoir of John St. Mawe , Miscellaneous Poems , pp . 1 to 170 , and ends with six of the author's ...
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... reading , may meet with something he does not understand , may not rush into the convenient type of " N. & Q. , " and ... readers of " N. & Q. " there be any having access to the public libraries of London , Oxford , Cam- bridge , or ...
... reading , may meet with something he does not understand , may not rush into the convenient type of " N. & Q. , " and ... readers of " N. & Q. " there be any having access to the public libraries of London , Oxford , Cam- bridge , or ...
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Page 208 - But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat ; and will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken ; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
Page 165 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 23 - Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands : Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there ; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
Page 257 - Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring bale-fires blaze no more ; No longer steel-clad warriors ride Along thy wild and willow'd shore ; Where'er thou wind'st, by dale or hill, All, all is peaceful, all is still, As if thy waves, since Time was born. Since first they roll'd upon the Tweed, Had only heard the shepherd's reed, Nor started at the bugle-horn.
Page 324 - No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member — No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds...
Page 373 - THE ANNOTATED BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER : being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England.
Page 230 - There is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride.
Page 113 - Here lies in horizontal position the outside case of George Routleigh, watchmaker ; whose abilities in that line were an honour to his profession. Integrity was the mainspring, and prudence the regulator, of all the actions of his life.
Page 204 - Majestic forms ; impatient to be free, Spurning the gross control of wilful might ; Proud of the strong contention of her toils ; Proud to be daring?
Page 82 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?