Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 страница |
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... example of this occurred in London some thirty years ago . One morning the good people woke up to find the interrogation " Who's Blank ? " staring them everywhere in the face , -in the newspapers , on the walls and hoardings of the town ...
... example of this occurred in London some thirty years ago . One morning the good people woke up to find the interrogation " Who's Blank ? " staring them everywhere in the face , -in the newspapers , on the walls and hoardings of the town ...
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... example of alliterative poetry is the following , in which the initial letters of the lines are those of the alphabet in proper sequence , forming a sort of acrostic . It is positively claimed for Alaric A. Watts by his son . There are ...
... example of alliterative poetry is the following , in which the initial letters of the lines are those of the alphabet in proper sequence , forming a sort of acrostic . It is positively claimed for Alaric A. Watts by his son . There are ...
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... example , selected from the pro- ceedings of the New York Common Council , May 12 , 1869 : “ Resolved , That the Comptroller be and is hereby directed to draw a warrant in favor of David Sherrad for the sum of $ 350 , to be in full ...
... example , selected from the pro- ceedings of the New York Common Council , May 12 , 1869 : “ Resolved , That the Comptroller be and is hereby directed to draw a warrant in favor of David Sherrad for the sum of $ 350 , to be in full ...
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... example : " The sign & is said to be properly called Emperor's hand , from having been first invented by some imperial personage , but by whom deponent saith not . ” — The Monthly Packet , vol . xxx . p . 448 . Anagram ( Gr . ¿ váypaμμa ...
... example : " The sign & is said to be properly called Emperor's hand , from having been first invented by some imperial personage , but by whom deponent saith not . ” — The Monthly Packet , vol . xxx . p . 448 . Anagram ( Gr . ¿ váypaμμa ...
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... example which sought to turn the very title of the Pope into a denial of his claims , as thus : SUPRE- MUS PONTIFEX ... examples are HORACE WALPOLE , Onuphris Muralto , the very imperfect anagram under which he published his " Castle of ...
... example which sought to turn the very title of the Pope into a denial of his claims , as thus : SUPRE- MUS PONTIFEX ... examples are HORACE WALPOLE , Onuphris Muralto , the very imperfect anagram under which he published his " Castle of ...
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Страница 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Страница 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Страница 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Страница 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Страница 197 - ... 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.
Страница 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Страница 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Страница 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Страница 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Страница 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.