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Pagina 14
... correspondent asks for information about St. Irene or St. Erini , from whom he thinks the Island of Santorin in the Grecian Archipelago acquired its name ; and in reply , you have re- ferred him to Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman ...
... correspondent asks for information about St. Irene or St. Erini , from whom he thinks the Island of Santorin in the Grecian Archipelago acquired its name ; and in reply , you have re- ferred him to Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman ...
Pagina 17
... correspondent . Your correspondent states that " Voltaire was a little partial to his paternal name , ' " * and oddly enough gives two extracts from his letters to L'Abbé Moussinot , which prove the very contrary . Those extracts are ...
... correspondent . Your correspondent states that " Voltaire was a little partial to his paternal name , ' " * and oddly enough gives two extracts from his letters to L'Abbé Moussinot , which prove the very contrary . Those extracts are ...
Pagina 18
... correspondent who first drew at- tention to this interesting volume in N. & Q. , which we hope to print next week . - Archæologia Cambrensis for January , 1852. This is an excellent number ; and if this record of the antiquities of ...
... correspondent who first drew at- tention to this interesting volume in N. & Q. , which we hope to print next week . - Archæologia Cambrensis for January , 1852. This is an excellent number ; and if this record of the antiquities of ...
Pagina 35
... correspondent 3 , to state that at Inversnaid , on the borders of Loch Lomond , where Wordsworth met his immortalised " High- land Girl , " there is a ruined fort , erected in 1716 to keep the clan Gregor in order , and which was taken ...
... correspondent 3 , to state that at Inversnaid , on the borders of Loch Lomond , where Wordsworth met his immortalised " High- land Girl , " there is a ruined fort , erected in 1716 to keep the clan Gregor in order , and which was taken ...
Pagina 36
... correspondent — an identity to which my mind also inclines , could be more clearly made out . He was born , and partly educated , in Devonshire . A private correspondent has very kindly fur- nished me with a few particulars relative to ...
... correspondent — an identity to which my mind also inclines , could be more clearly made out . He was born , and partly educated , in Devonshire . A private correspondent has very kindly fur- nished me with a few particulars relative to ...
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Pagina 76 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Pagina 336 - A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light...
Pagina 32 - And I will come down and talk with thee there : and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Pagina 175 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place...
Pagina 293 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell," who rudely called Hobbes " irritabile illud ct vanissimum Malmsburiense animal.
Pagina 116 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a papermill.
Pagina 129 - Where by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this realm of England is an empire, and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one supreme head and king having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial crown of the same, unto whom a body politic, compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of spiritualty and temporalty, be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience...
Pagina 151 - It is astonishing how little obsolete the language of it is, even at this day ; and in point of perspicuity and noble simplicity, propriety of idiom, and purity of style, no English version has yet surpassed it.
Pagina 107 - The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow : at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear; And floating about the under-sky, Prevailing in weakness the coronach...
Pagina 99 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...