Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 sider |
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Side 30
... wife and his infant daughter were spirited away from him ( he seems to hint that the wife eloped with a lover , but this she indignantly denies ) , and that he spent a large portion of his life , and lost fortune , place , and position ...
... wife and his infant daughter were spirited away from him ( he seems to hint that the wife eloped with a lover , but this she indignantly denies ) , and that he spent a large portion of his life , and lost fortune , place , and position ...
Side 31
... wife , who now appears to be in Hammersmith , England , conjures him to call on her . " A wilful error , " she says , " is maintained against justice and truth to oppose my right . Why not come immediately ? " But , instead of going ...
... wife , who now appears to be in Hammersmith , England , conjures him to call on her . " A wilful error , " she says , " is maintained against justice and truth to oppose my right . Why not come immediately ? " But , instead of going ...
Side 32
... wife , written from Venice , August 23 , 1818. Yet critics who are fond of mares ' nests have spent a deal of ingenious conjecture on the term . Mr. Forman suggests that Albé was formed from the initials L. B. = Lord Byron . Another ...
... wife , written from Venice , August 23 , 1818. Yet critics who are fond of mares ' nests have spent a deal of ingenious conjecture on the term . Mr. Forman suggests that Albé was formed from the initials L. B. = Lord Byron . Another ...
Side 47
... wife to get her to vote as he desired in the community , and with having acted fraudulently in keeping the record of the community as secretary , and in the election of himself as president , all of which I hereby retract and apologize ...
... wife to get her to vote as he desired in the community , and with having acted fraudulently in keeping the record of the community as secretary , and in the election of himself as president , all of which I hereby retract and apologize ...
Side 54
... wife of Sir John Davies , Attorney - General in Ireland to King James I. This lady , a fanatic who fancied herself possessed by the pro- phetic spirit of Daniel , grounded her belief on an anagram which she made on her name , viz ...
... wife of Sir John Davies , Attorney - General in Ireland to King James I. This lady , a fanatic who fancied herself possessed by the pro- phetic spirit of Daniel , grounded her belief on an anagram which she made on her name , viz ...
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Side 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Side 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Side 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Side 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Side 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Side 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Side 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Side 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Side 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Side 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.