Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of ExcerptaLippincott, 1874 - 864 oldal |
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... Anagrams— German , Latin , and English Instances - Chronograms ...... .. Palindromes . - 25 Reading in every Style — What is a Palindrome ? What St. Martin said to the Devil - The Lawyer's Motto - What Adam said to Eve - The Poor Young ...
... Anagrams— German , Latin , and English Instances - Chronograms ...... .. Palindromes . - 25 Reading in every Style — What is a Palindrome ? What St. Martin said to the Devil - The Lawyer's Motto - What Adam said to Eve - The Poor Young ...
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... ANAGRAMS . But with still more disordered march advance ( Nor march it seemed , but wild fantastic dance ) The uncouth Anagrams , distorted train , Shifting in double mazes o'er the plain . - Scribleriad . CAMDEN , in a chapter in his ...
... ANAGRAMS . But with still more disordered march advance ( Nor march it seemed , but wild fantastic dance ) The uncouth Anagrams , distorted train , Shifting in double mazes o'er the plain . - Scribleriad . CAMDEN , in a chapter in his ...
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... anagram is complimentary or satirical ; it may contain some allusion to an event , or describe some per- sonal ... anagrams in his poem on the siege of Troy entitled Cassandra . One is on the name of Ptolemy Philadelphus , in whose reign ...
... anagram is complimentary or satirical ; it may contain some allusion to an event , or describe some per- sonal ... anagrams in his poem on the siege of Troy entitled Cassandra . One is on the name of Ptolemy Philadelphus , in whose reign ...
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... anagram with a very quaint epigrammatic " exposition : " — TOAST - A SOTT . A toast is like a sot ; or , what is ... anagrams . ” Sylvester , in dedicating to his sovereign his translation of Du Bartas , rings the following loyal change ...
... anagram with a very quaint epigrammatic " exposition : " — TOAST - A SOTT . A toast is like a sot ; or , what is ... anagrams . ” Sylvester , in dedicating to his sovereign his translation of Du Bartas , rings the following loyal change ...
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... anagram Pendu à Riom , ( the seat of criminal justice in the province of Auvergne , ) felt impelled to fulfill his destiny , committed a capital offence in Auvergne , and was actually hung in the place to which the omen pointed . The ...
... anagram Pendu à Riom , ( the seat of criminal justice in the province of Auvergne , ) felt impelled to fulfill his destiny , committed a capital offence in Auvergne , and was actually hung in the place to which the omen pointed . The ...
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803. oldal - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
507. oldal - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
760. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
521. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
125. oldal - And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : But when the planets In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents ! what mutiny ! What raging of the sea ! shaking of earth ! Commotion in the winds ! frights, changes, horrors Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture...
783. oldal - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
412. oldal - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys!
391. oldal - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
269. oldal - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
231. oldal - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.