Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 sidor |
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... Translated the Bible - Wicklif's Version - Tyndale's Translation - Matthew's Bible - Cranmer's Edition - The Genera Bible— The Breeches Bible - The Bishop's Bible - Parker's Bible - The Douay Bible— King James's Bilde - The Number of ...
... Translated the Bible - Wicklif's Version - Tyndale's Translation - Matthew's Bible - Cranmer's Edition - The Genera Bible— The Breeches Bible - The Bishop's Bible - Parker's Bible - The Douay Bible— King James's Bilde - The Number of ...
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... Translation of Hamlet - The Frenchman and the Welsh Rabbit ... 99 259 Misquotations . Curious Misquotations of Well - known Authors - Example of Collins - Sir Walter Scott in Error - Blunder of Sir Archibald Alison - Cruikshank as the ...
... Translation of Hamlet - The Frenchman and the Welsh Rabbit ... 99 259 Misquotations . Curious Misquotations of Well - known Authors - Example of Collins - Sir Walter Scott in Error - Blunder of Sir Archibald Alison - Cruikshank as the ...
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... Translation of Luther's Hymn - Curious Account of Queen Elizabeth - What She Said to the Troublesome Priest - What was the Real Color of Her Hair ? -Was Shakespeare a Christian ? -Personal De- scription of Oliver Cromwell - How Pope's ...
... Translation of Luther's Hymn - Curious Account of Queen Elizabeth - What She Said to the Troublesome Priest - What was the Real Color of Her Hair ? -Was Shakespeare a Christian ? -Personal De- scription of Oliver Cromwell - How Pope's ...
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... translated the Moral Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa , a poem of about two hundred lines , almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E. The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet ...
... translated the Moral Proverbs of Christiana of Pisa , a poem of about two hundred lines , almost all the words of which he contrived to conclude with the letter E. The Pangrammatists contrive to crowd all the letters of the alphabet ...
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... David , and in other parts of Scripture , striking specimens occur . The peculiarity is not retained in the translations , but is indicated in the common version of the 119th Psalm by the initial letters prefixed 40 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
... David , and in other parts of Scripture , striking specimens occur . The peculiarity is not retained in the translations , but is indicated in the common version of the 119th Psalm by the initial letters prefixed 40 ALPHABETICAL WHIMS .
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1875 |
Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange ... Charles Carroll Bombaugh Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1890 |
Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1875 |
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Sida 803 - ... 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.
Sida 507 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Sida 760 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Sida 521 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Sida 125 - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
Sida 783 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
Sida 412 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
Sida 391 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Sida 269 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Sida 231 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.