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... Charles the First , which has the whole Book of Psalms written in the lines of the face and the hair of the head , " and he goes on to say that when " he was last at Oxford he perused one of the whiskers , and was reading the other ...
... Charles the First , which has the whole Book of Psalms written in the lines of the face and the hair of the head , " and he goes on to say that when " he was last at Oxford he perused one of the whiskers , and was reading the other ...
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... Charles floating about in the newspapers for some twenty Mackay's ' Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular De- years , has been finally disposed of by Mr. Moncure lusions , ' vol . ii . , article " The Crusades . " Conway in Harper's Magazine ...
... Charles floating about in the newspapers for some twenty Mackay's ' Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular De- years , has been finally disposed of by Mr. Moncure lusions , ' vol . ii . , article " The Crusades . " Conway in Harper's Magazine ...
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... Charles Knight , is an illustration of an urn or cup found in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey , in Somerset , encir- cling which are represented various saints which appear to be resting on swans and roses , clearly indicating a ...
... Charles Knight , is an illustration of an urn or cup found in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey , in Somerset , encir- cling which are represented various saints which appear to be resting on swans and roses , clearly indicating a ...
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... CHARLES DICKENS . - Can any of your readers give me some particulars of the caricature portrait of Charles Dickens thus re- ferred to by him in a letter ( dated July 8 , 1861 ) to the Hon . Mrs. Watson ? - " I hope you may have seen a ...
... CHARLES DICKENS . - Can any of your readers give me some particulars of the caricature portrait of Charles Dickens thus re- ferred to by him in a letter ( dated July 8 , 1861 ) to the Hon . Mrs. Watson ? - " I hope you may have seen a ...
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... CHARLES LESLIE AND SACHEVERELL . - I recently came across what I presume to be an error in Mr. F. Madan's ' Bibliography of Dr. Henry Sache- verell , ' of which your lamented correspondent and my kind friend Mr. Edward Solly presented ...
... CHARLES LESLIE AND SACHEVERELL . - I recently came across what I presume to be an error in Mr. F. Madan's ' Bibliography of Dr. Henry Sache- verell , ' of which your lamented correspondent and my kind friend Mr. Edward Solly presented ...
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Page 110 - ... doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
Page 1 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation ; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
Page 3 - When I was last at Oxford I perused one of the whiskers ; and was reading the other, but could not go so far in it as I would have done, by reason of the impatience of my friends and fellow-travellers, who all of them pressed to see such a piece of curiosity.
Page 11 - Britain, when the lords declared by a majority of five, that no patent of honour granted to any peer of Great Britain, who was a peer of Scotland at the time of the Union, entitled such peer to sit and vote in parliament, or to sit upon the trial of peers.
Page 438 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Page 409 - To express the same maxim in other words, it is one thing to wish to have Truth on our side, and another thing to wish sincerely to be on the side of Truth.
Page 410 - ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication...
Page 195 - EDUCATION. - At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature.
Page 139 - ... This place affords no news, no subject of entertainment or amusement, for fine men of wit and pleasure about town understand not the language, and taste not the pleasures of the inanimate world. My flatterers here are all mutes. The oaks, the beeches, the chestnuts, seem to contend which best shall please the lord of the manor. They cannot deceive, they will not lie.
Page 314 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.