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... story I do not know , but I have seen it said " he unfortunately married , " & c . S. D. W. Who was Mrs. Quon ? In a letter to Mon- tagu , dated May 19 , 1756 ( Cunningham's edit . , iii . 12. ) Walpole writes : " I believe the French ...
... story I do not know , but I have seen it said " he unfortunately married , " & c . S. D. W. Who was Mrs. Quon ? In a letter to Mon- tagu , dated May 19 , 1756 ( Cunningham's edit . , iii . 12. ) Walpole writes : " I believe the French ...
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... story . " This only made the original mystery more mys- terious . I can understand that there may have been ob- jections , at the time , to tell the story plainly - " the late speculator " may have extracted the MSS . by payment in hard ...
... story . " This only made the original mystery more mys- terious . I can understand that there may have been ob- jections , at the time , to tell the story plainly - " the late speculator " may have extracted the MSS . by payment in hard ...
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... story , were grouped many persons , some of whom had sprung out of their beds and were in night dresses . Terror seemed to have overcome them ; and whilst some were screaming or invoking the saints , others were leaning in a fainting ...
... story , were grouped many persons , some of whom had sprung out of their beds and were in night dresses . Terror seemed to have overcome them ; and whilst some were screaming or invoking the saints , others were leaning in a fainting ...
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... story re- specting the death of Henry IV . in the Jerusalem Chamber can be traced much farther back than to Fabian's Concordance of Histories , since it is found in the Brute , both in the early MSS . of that Chro nicle , as well as in ...
... story re- specting the death of Henry IV . in the Jerusalem Chamber can be traced much farther back than to Fabian's Concordance of Histories , since it is found in the Brute , both in the early MSS . of that Chro nicle , as well as in ...
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... story of Mr. Hall , and which I can to a certain extent corroborate by private papers referring to him in my possession . The edition I have is the 12mo . abridgement , printed for Vernon and Hood , Birchin Lane , Cornhill . 1796 ...
... story of Mr. Hall , and which I can to a certain extent corroborate by private papers referring to him in my possession . The edition I have is the 12mo . abridgement , printed for Vernon and Hood , Birchin Lane , Cornhill . 1796 ...
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Page 215 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past : which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 215 - For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 7 - ... unworthy takes, when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 97 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will ; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad ; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Page 83 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 362 - For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Page 244 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 196 - GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
Page 294 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Watered the garden; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears, And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...
Page 154 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.