Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 Seiten |
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... 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 ; ává , up , or back , and ypuuua , a letter ) ...
... 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 ; ává , up , or back , and ypuuua , a letter ) ...
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... called a species of paronomasia or pun . Patriot resolved into Pat - riot is an even poorer instance . The Romans seem to have despised this sort of literary trifling . Latin anagrams are generally of modern origin . Yet among these are ...
... called a species of paronomasia or pun . Patriot resolved into Pat - riot is an even poorer instance . The Romans seem to have despised this sort of literary trifling . Latin anagrams are generally of modern origin . Yet among these are ...
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... called " the sacred anchor , " and was made the emblem of hope . The early Christians adopted the anchor as an emblem of hope , and it is found engraved on rings and depicted on monuments and on the walls of cemeteries in the Catacombs ...
... called " the sacred anchor , " and was made the emblem of hope . The early Christians adopted the anchor as an emblem of hope , and it is found engraved on rings and depicted on monuments and on the walls of cemeteries in the Catacombs ...
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... called 1797 his annus mirabilis , as during that year the poet composed most of his finest works . And , again , 1871 has been called the annus mira- bilis of the Papacy , as the year in which Pius IX . , first among all the succes ...
... called 1797 his annus mirabilis , as during that year the poet composed most of his finest works . And , again , 1871 has been called the annus mira- bilis of the Papacy , as the year in which Pius IX . , first among all the succes ...
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... called " St. Stephen's stone . " Apostle Spoons . Old - fashioned silver or silver - gilt spoons , whose handle terminated in the figure of one of the apostles . The souvenir spoons of to - day are their legitimate descendants . Apostle ...
... called " St. Stephen's stone . " Apostle Spoons . Old - fashioned silver or silver - gilt spoons , whose handle terminated in the figure of one of the apostles . The souvenir spoons of to - day are their legitimate descendants . Apostle ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.