Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 sidor |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 59
Sida iii
... judgement , and to obtaine or winne the constant love and allowance of every man , especially if it containe in it any novelty or unwonted strangenesse . - RAYNALD'S WOMAN'S BOOK . 586167 ii E Bid him welcome . This is the motley - minded.
... judgement , and to obtaine or winne the constant love and allowance of every man , especially if it containe in it any novelty or unwonted strangenesse . - RAYNALD'S WOMAN'S BOOK . 586167 ii E Bid him welcome . This is the motley - minded.
Sida xvi
... Bet - Walking Blind - folded -How to Tell the Time by Cats ' Eyes - Ilow a Young Woman was Cured by a Ring - The Story told by a Skull - A Romantic Highway Robber .. 435 Singular Customs . The Coffin on the Table - Queer xvi CONTENTS .
... Bet - Walking Blind - folded -How to Tell the Time by Cats ' Eyes - Ilow a Young Woman was Cured by a Ring - The Story told by a Skull - A Romantic Highway Robber .. 435 Singular Customs . The Coffin on the Table - Queer xvi CONTENTS .
Sida xvii
... Woman - What Paddy said about “ Ayther and Nayther " -Scribe and the French Millionaire- Voltaire and Haller - Why Paddy " A Most Excellent Judge " -Thackeray Snubbed - Christian Cannibalism— How a Barrister's Eloquence was Silenced ...
... Woman - What Paddy said about “ Ayther and Nayther " -Scribe and the French Millionaire- Voltaire and Haller - Why Paddy " A Most Excellent Judge " -Thackeray Snubbed - Christian Cannibalism— How a Barrister's Eloquence was Silenced ...
Sida xviii
... Woman's Will - Wellington's Big Nose - The Miser and his Money - On Bad Singing - Old Nick and the Fiddle - Foot - man versus Toe- man- " Hot Corn " -Bonnets of Straw - An Original Sin " Man - On Writing Verses - Prudent Simplicity — A ...
... Woman's Will - Wellington's Big Nose - The Miser and his Money - On Bad Singing - Old Nick and the Fiddle - Foot - man versus Toe- man- " Hot Corn " -Bonnets of Straw - An Original Sin " Man - On Writing Verses - Prudent Simplicity — A ...
Sida xix
... Woman , pro and con - Abundance of Fools - The World " Terminer Sans Oyer ” —Seeing Double .. Impromptus . .. 15 Dr. Young and his Ece - How Ben Jonson Paid his Bill - What Melville said to Queen Elizabeth - The " Angel " in the Pew ...
... Woman , pro and con - Abundance of Fools - The World " Terminer Sans Oyer ” —Seeing Double .. Impromptus . .. 15 Dr. Young and his Ece - How Ben Jonson Paid his Bill - What Melville said to Queen Elizabeth - The " Angel " in the Pew ...
Innehåll
143 | |
150 | |
182 | |
212 | |
223 | |
230 | |
252 | |
259 | |
266 | |
277 | |
281 | |
290 | |
310 | |
317 | |
325 | |
327 | |
515 | |
528 | |
534 | |
544 | |
551 | |
556 | |
564 | |
583 | |
615 | |
640 | |
699 | |
721 | |
756 | |
763 | |
782 | |
823 | |
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
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 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
acrostic anagram ancient appear asked beautiful Bible Bishop blessed Cæsar called century chronogram church cross curious Dean Swift death Doneraile doth earth Echo England English English language epigram eyes fair father feet fell flower French gentleman give Greek hand hath head hear heart heaven Hebrew hexameter holy honor hundred Irenæus Jesus John Julius Cæsar King lady language Latin learned letter lines live look Lord Lord's Prayer marabout marriage means Miss never night o'er origin pain Palindromes PASQUINADE person poet Prayer present Psalm Queen remarkable replied rhyme rix-dollars Rome says seven Shakspeare sleep soul stearine sweet tell thee Theodore Hook thine thing thou thought tion took translation Tryphiodorus unto verse wife wine word write written wrote young Есно
Populära avsnitt
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.