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... original significance . As a matter of fact , the sign was known cen- turies before Eleanor was born , and this priceless old vestiary shows that in medieval symbolism the Elephant and Castle represented Adam and Eve in the Garden of ...
... original significance . As a matter of fact , the sign was known cen- turies before Eleanor was born , and this priceless old vestiary shows that in medieval symbolism the Elephant and Castle represented Adam and Eve in the Garden of ...
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... original or impassioned , in the Essay are fictitious . My authority for and without his model style would have sunk into deserved neglect . Landor's tribute to Shakespeare the statement is The East India Directory pleases us much ...
... original or impassioned , in the Essay are fictitious . My authority for and without his model style would have sunk into deserved neglect . Landor's tribute to Shakespeare the statement is The East India Directory pleases us much ...
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... original half - calf ( 347. ) , and a complete set of the magnificent Coloured Engrav- ings of the Colleges , Chapels and gardens of Oxford from the drawings of Dellamotte ( 421 ) . In the American section we notice a copy of the exceed ...
... original half - calf ( 347. ) , and a complete set of the magnificent Coloured Engrav- ings of the Colleges , Chapels and gardens of Oxford from the drawings of Dellamotte ( 421 ) . In the American section we notice a copy of the exceed ...
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... original of the letter of your readers tell me where I can find an can doubt . We all know that he was fond account , historical or traditional , of the of using words in their old , rather than in family of Finch of Winchelsey , & c ...
... original of the letter of your readers tell me where I can find an can doubt . We all know that he was fond account , historical or traditional , of the of using words in their old , rather than in family of Finch of Winchelsey , & c ...
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... original of which see Don Quixote , ' E. G. BAYFORD . part II . , chap . lxviii . 38 Eldon Street , Barnsley . The lines occur in a set of humorous verses entitled Early Rising ' written by John Godfrey Saxe , an American born in 1816 ...
... original of which see Don Quixote , ' E. G. BAYFORD . part II . , chap . lxviii . 38 Eldon Street , Barnsley . The lines occur in a set of humorous verses entitled Early Rising ' written by John Godfrey Saxe , an American born in 1816 ...
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Página 160 - NORMAN PEOPLE (The). The Norman People, and their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America.
Página 175 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 19 - Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te " — * * Thus Englished by the famous Tom Brown :
Página 261 - An Essay on the Governing Causes of the Natural Rate of Interest ; wherein the sentiments of Sir William Petty and Mr. Locke, on that head, are considered. [By JOSEPH MASSIE] London, 1750.
Página 126 - THROUGH all the changing scenes of life, In trouble and in joy, The praises of my God shall still My heart and tongue employ.
Página 137 - ... youth dreams is one For daylight, for the cheerful sun, For feeling nerves and living breath — Youth dreams a bliss on this side death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep ; It hears a voice within it tell : Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.
Página 19 - I do not love you Dr. Fell, But why I cannot tell; But this I know full well, I do not love you. Dr. Fell.
Página 83 - This berry," says Roger Williams (Key, in Hist. Coll., vol. iii. p. 221), "is the wonder of all the fruits growing naturally in those parts. It is of itself excellent; so that one of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry.
Página 300 - A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod, — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Página 4 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.