Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 sider |
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... Dead Heart" was being played at his theatre. He ordered ten hundred thousand hearts to be printed in red, inscribed with the words Dead Heart, and had them posted everywhere, upon the pavements, upon the walls, upon the trees in the ...
... Dead Heart" was being played at his theatre. He ordered ten hundred thousand hearts to be printed in red, inscribed with the words Dead Heart, and had them posted everywhere, upon the pavements, upon the walls, upon the trees in the ...
Side 89
... dead letter. See Neck-Verse. Better half, a humorous colloquialism for a wife, makes its first appearance in English literature in Sidney's " Arcadia" (1580), iii. 280, where Argalus says to Parthenia, " My deare, my better halfey I ...
... dead letter. See Neck-Verse. Better half, a humorous colloquialism for a wife, makes its first appearance in English literature in Sidney's " Arcadia" (1580), iii. 280, where Argalus says to Parthenia, " My deare, my better halfey I ...
Side 107
... dead man — with a sharp scream would snatch the bloody shirt, and, waving it aloft, begin the vocero, — the lamentation. This rhythmic discourse was made up of alternate expressions of love for the dead and hatred of his enemies ; and ...
... dead man — with a sharp scream would snatch the bloody shirt, and, waving it aloft, begin the vocero, — the lamentation. This rhythmic discourse was made up of alternate expressions of love for the dead and hatred of his enemies ; and ...
Side 124
... dead ; His name was not stamped on those balls ot lead. Longfellow. Mme. de Se'vigne wrote, " Who can doubt that the cannon-ball which could distinguish M. de Turenne among a dozen was loaded for that purpose from all eternity ?" Bulls ...
... dead ; His name was not stamped on those balls ot lead. Longfellow. Mme. de Se'vigne wrote, " Who can doubt that the cannon-ball which could distinguish M. de Turenne among a dozen was loaded for that purpose from all eternity ?" Bulls ...
Side 125
... dead language it will ever live. — Ibid. The last example is more properly a play upon words than a bull ; yet it cannot be relegated to the degraded deep of punning, because there is a play on the idea as well as on the words. It is ...
... dead language it will ever live. — Ibid. The last example is more properly a play upon words than a bull ; yet it cannot be relegated to the degraded deep of punning, because there is a play on the idea as well as on the words. It is ...
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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.