Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 sider |
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Side 10
... Duke of Grafton taunted Thurlow, then Lord Chancellor, on his humble origin. Thurlow rose from the woolsack, and, advancing towards the duke, declared he was amazed at his grace's speech. " The noble duke," he cried, in a burst of ...
... Duke of Grafton taunted Thurlow, then Lord Chancellor, on his humble origin. Thurlow rose from the woolsack, and, advancing towards the duke, declared he was amazed at his grace's speech. " The noble duke," he cried, in a burst of ...
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... Duke of Wellington saw a soldier warming his weak regulation beer. The duke said, " Damn the belly that won't warm Act of Parliament !" The soldier replied, ** Damn the Act of Parliament 1 it won't warm the belly ."— Barrerb and Lkland ...
... Duke of Wellington saw a soldier warming his weak regulation beer. The duke said, " Damn the belly that won't warm Act of Parliament !" The soldier replied, ** Damn the Act of Parliament 1 it won't warm the belly ."— Barrerb and Lkland ...
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... Duke of Wellington. O'Connell caught up the phrase and followed the advice it inculcated. Hence he was known as " the Irish Agitator." But Parnell deemed that a better watchword was " Organize, organize, organize !" Agnostic (Gr. d ...
... Duke of Wellington. O'Connell caught up the phrase and followed the advice it inculcated. Hence he was known as " the Irish Agitator." But Parnell deemed that a better watchword was " Organize, organize, organize !" Agnostic (Gr. d ...
Side 59
... duke was alive, accused him of being hard and worldly). But best is the following : Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington : Let well-foiPd Gaul secure thy renown. A number of very clever burlesque anagrams were contributed to Mac ...
... duke was alive, accused him of being hard and worldly). But best is the following : Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington : Let well-foiPd Gaul secure thy renown. A number of very clever burlesque anagrams were contributed to Mac ...
Side 81
... Duke of Guise, and also to the murder, in 1520, of seventy Swedish nobles of Stockholm by command of Christian II. of Denmark. Bathos. This word, in the sense which has now excluded all others, — that of an anticlimax, a ludicrous ...
... Duke of Guise, and also to the murder, in 1520, of seventy Swedish nobles of Stockholm by command of Christian II. of Denmark. Bathos. This word, in the sense which has now excluded all others, — that of an anticlimax, a ludicrous ...
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Side 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Side 740 - 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 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Side 739 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Side 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
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 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Side 417 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Side 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Side 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.