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... carried a book in his bosom , and amidst the great business and hurries of government , snatched moments of leisure to read . In the early part of his reign , he was Cast from the pedestal of pride by shocks , Which Nature gently gave ...
... carried a book in his bosom , and amidst the great business and hurries of government , snatched moments of leisure to read . In the early part of his reign , he was Cast from the pedestal of pride by shocks , Which Nature gently gave ...
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... carried on the cruel trade of stopping the growth of children by confining them in chests : most dwarfs came from Syria and Egypt . Father Kircher published an engraving of an ancient bronze , represent- ing one of these dwarfs ; and ...
... carried on the cruel trade of stopping the growth of children by confining them in chests : most dwarfs came from Syria and Egypt . Father Kircher published an engraving of an ancient bronze , represent- ing one of these dwarfs ; and ...
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... carrying a lan- tern in his hand . The dark lantern of the Roman sentinels was square , covered on three sides with ... carried the narrow end uppermost , with an arched aperture for the light , and a square handle . † Nugæ Antiquæ i ...
... carrying a lan- tern in his hand . The dark lantern of the Roman sentinels was square , covered on three sides with ... carried the narrow end uppermost , with an arched aperture for the light , and a square handle . † Nugæ Antiquæ i ...
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... carried , not only in your hands , but in your heads and hearts . " At a wedding of three sisters together , in 1560 , we read of " fine flowers and rosemary strewed for them , coming home ; and so , to the father's house , where was a ...
... carried , not only in your hands , but in your heads and hearts . " At a wedding of three sisters together , in 1560 , we read of " fine flowers and rosemary strewed for them , coming home ; and so , to the father's house , where was a ...
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... carried into effect , but in vain . Prynne again libelled the prelacy ; was again tried , and again sen- tenced ; and the judge , perceiving that fragments of his ears still remained , ordered them to be unmercifully cut off , and ...
... carried into effect , but in vain . Prynne again libelled the prelacy ; was again tried , and again sen- tenced ; and the judge , perceiving that fragments of his ears still remained , ordered them to be unmercifully cut off , and ...
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Page 1309 - The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Page 227 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing.
Page 529 - ... loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below: so is the prayer of...
Page 751 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 1145 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 155 - ... profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Page 389 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has, not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 409 - And in each pillar there is a ring, And in each ring there is a chain; That iron is a cankering thing, For in these limbs its teeth remain. With marks that will not wear...
Page 351 - RULES to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. TOASTER-DAY (on which the rest depend) is always the First -*-* Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after.
Page 977 - I have greater witness than that of John ; for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.