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... hand in hand The downward slope to death . " ( A Dream of Fair Women . ) Surely nobody can read Dan Chaucer's " Legend of Good Women " without thus moralizing , though Chaucer himself ( so far as I remember ) did not express the moral ...
... hand in hand The downward slope to death . " ( A Dream of Fair Women . ) Surely nobody can read Dan Chaucer's " Legend of Good Women " without thus moralizing , though Chaucer himself ( so far as I remember ) did not express the moral ...
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... hand , Thomas Hood told me that he had often had to go through the dictionary from end to end in search of a word ; and I remember when Crofton Croker and I were writing the second volume of The Irish Fairy Legends , that when I called ...
... hand , Thomas Hood told me that he had often had to go through the dictionary from end to end in search of a word ; and I remember when Crofton Croker and I were writing the second volume of The Irish Fairy Legends , that when I called ...
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... hand , was fixed upon his grave in this parish church this taunting epitaph : : - Here lies Ned , I am glad he's dead . If there must be another , I wish ' twere his brother , And for the good of the nation His whole relation ...
... hand , was fixed upon his grave in this parish church this taunting epitaph : : - Here lies Ned , I am glad he's dead . If there must be another , I wish ' twere his brother , And for the good of the nation His whole relation ...
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... hand , and giving the benediction with the left . Is not this a unique instance ? JOHN PIGGOT , Jun . THE CHEVALIER D'ASSAS . ( 3rd S. xi . 34 ; xii . 12. ) In my first article on D'Assas I have repro- duced the popular version of the ...
... hand , and giving the benediction with the left . Is not this a unique instance ? JOHN PIGGOT , Jun . THE CHEVALIER D'ASSAS . ( 3rd S. xi . 34 ; xii . 12. ) In my first article on D'Assas I have repro- duced the popular version of the ...
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... hand , even if bearing the names and arms of their which they had become possessed , at second- former ( original ) owners . humblest parties who required seals for the trans- fer of lands , had them engraved in lead with a flower or ...
... hand , even if bearing the names and arms of their which they had become possessed , at second- former ( original ) owners . humblest parties who required seals for the trans- fer of lands , had them engraved in lead with a flower or ...
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Page 72 - Tis morn; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye Brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! Few, few shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 288 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 203 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 133 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, "All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient." And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 262 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Page 293 - And note, that there shall be for every Male child to be baptized two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers.
Page 122 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Page 260 - DICTIONARY of GENERAL BIOGRAPHY; containing Concise Memoirs and Notices of the most Eminent Persons of all Countries, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Edited by WLR CATES. 8vo. 21s. LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND.
Page 134 - ... to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
Page 203 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west...