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... word which caused me some vexatious research . The author tells his readers how they may render themselves invisible , and his directions are - " To wear a wig made of the hairs of a person who has been hung , having first had the wig ...
... word which caused me some vexatious research . The author tells his readers how they may render themselves invisible , and his directions are - " To wear a wig made of the hairs of a person who has been hung , having first had the wig ...
16. oldal
... word about roses . How then does the commentator connect the two ? By artfully and illogically dragging in another ... words of our worthy English philosopher , Sir Thomas Browne , who says : - " When we desire to confine our words , we ...
... word about roses . How then does the commentator connect the two ? By artfully and illogically dragging in another ... words of our worthy English philosopher , Sir Thomas Browne , who says : - " When we desire to confine our words , we ...
21. oldal
... words , has the signification of rather , as darkish ; but the other word , brackish , is not an English word at all without the ish . But ish has no more mean- ing in the word Scottish than it has in Danish , Swedish , Spanish , & c ...
... words , has the signification of rather , as darkish ; but the other word , brackish , is not an English word at all without the ish . But ish has no more mean- ing in the word Scottish than it has in Danish , Swedish , Spanish , & c ...
30. oldal
... words . Mixed wit , which we find in Cowley , partakes of the character of both , a composition of pure and true wit . " I select a few instances of the use of the word wit from the works of Dryden : — · " True wit is sharpness of ...
... words . Mixed wit , which we find in Cowley , partakes of the character of both , a composition of pure and true wit . " I select a few instances of the use of the word wit from the works of Dryden : — · " True wit is sharpness of ...
31. oldal
... word wit for verse ; he who possessed wit possessed the faculty of song . Shak- speare , Fletcher , and Jonson ... word , in its old signification , is very appropri- ate , and very poetical . Such have been the changes in the meaning of ...
... word wit for verse ; he who possessed wit possessed the faculty of song . Shak- speare , Fletcher , and Jonson ... word , in its old signification , is very appropri- ate , and very poetical . Such have been the changes in the meaning of ...
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338. oldal - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), 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 loos'd 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.
389. oldal - THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, as exemplified in Works of Art, with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament.
425. oldal - PORTLOCK.- REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
30. oldal - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
341. oldal - I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
43. oldal - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
388. oldal - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
300. oldal - Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.
338. oldal - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
307. oldal - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.