Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature, Volume 6Elliot Stock, 1887 - Bibliography |
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... become white , so a heart blackened by vice will always retain its blackness . " Fung Taou , a minister of state in the tenth century B.C. , printed from stone ; the characters were white on a black ground , and probably the idea was ...
... become white , so a heart blackened by vice will always retain its blackness . " Fung Taou , a minister of state in the tenth century B.C. , printed from stone ; the characters were white on a black ground , and probably the idea was ...
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... become saturated with moisture the operator is much astonished at the result . He would be more astonished , perhaps , if informed that a small vessel full of lime placed in some convenient position on or near a book - case will do more ...
... become saturated with moisture the operator is much astonished at the result . He would be more astonished , perhaps , if informed that a small vessel full of lime placed in some convenient position on or near a book - case will do more ...
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... become the Mecca of the Shakespearian student . This movement interested all comers from all lands who might visit the spot , and when they thought of the advance during the past few years amongst the public in the study of Shake ...
... become the Mecca of the Shakespearian student . This movement interested all comers from all lands who might visit the spot , and when they thought of the advance during the past few years amongst the public in the study of Shake ...
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... become artificial , and to cease to touch the heart . With him began the decadence of the lyric poetry which had for so long appealed to the sensitive nature of the Greeks , and which was the forerunner of the drama ; in fact , it seems ...
... become artificial , and to cease to touch the heart . With him began the decadence of the lyric poetry which had for so long appealed to the sensitive nature of the Greeks , and which was the forerunner of the drama ; in fact , it seems ...
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... becoming obsolete , education was being widely dis- seminated , schools were springing up , and under the attraction and influence of the new learning there was an inrush of fresh terms that threatened to stamp out whatsoever simple ...
... becoming obsolete , education was being widely dis- seminated , schools were springing up , and under the attraction and influence of the new learning there was an inrush of fresh terms that threatened to stamp out whatsoever simple ...
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Page 23 - robin red-breast; Sing, birds, in every furrow; And from each bill, let music shrill Give my fair love good-morrow. Blackbird and thrush, in every bush, Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow, You pretty elves, amongst yourselves, Sing my fair love good-morrow. To give my love good-morrow, Sing, birds, in every furrow.
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Page 19 - Frank. O sir, to see that nothing may be left That ever was my wife's. I loved her dearly. And when I do but think of her unkindness My thoughts are all in hell; to avoid which torment I would not have a bodkin or a cuff, A bracelet, necklace, or rebato wier, Nor
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Page 73 - did not want examples among his predecessors or companions among his contemporaries; but in the meanness and servility of hyperbolical adulation I know not whether since the days in which the Roman Emperors were deified he has ever been equalled, except by Afra Behn in an address to Eleanor Gwyn.
Page 114 - Satan, so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven ; he of the first, If not the first Archangel, great in power, In favour and pre-eminence.
Page 23 - Pack clouds away, and welcome day, With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft, To give my love good-morrow. Wings from the
Page 67 - them than the common sort Of outward things : that judge in their intent Without regard, what inward doth resort I graunt, sometime of glory that the fire Doth touch my heart. Me list not to report Blame by honour, nor honour to desire, But how may I this honour now attaine That
Page 72 - I did determine not to have dedicated my play to anybody, because forty shillings I care not for, and above few or none will bestow on these matters, especially falling from so fameless a pen as mine is yet." It will be observed, then, that the price of fulsome
Page 79 - Agrippa kept a Stygian pug, I' th' garb and habit of a dog, That was his tutor, and the cur Read to th' occult philosopher, And taught him subtly to maintain All other sciences