Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott, 1925 - 1104 Seiten Contains definitions and explanations of many literary terms. |
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... meaning , Archidux Electus Imperator Optime Vivat . It became a favorite pastime for learned and ingenious men to fit new readings to the motto . Frederick himself , in a manuscript referred to by the librarian of Leopold I. , quoted a ...
... meaning , Archidux Electus Imperator Optime Vivat . It became a favorite pastime for learned and ingenious men to fit new readings to the motto . Frederick himself , in a manuscript referred to by the librarian of Leopold I. , quoted a ...
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... meaning to go on smoothly , successfully . Coke quotes it as an ancient saying : " But no simile holds on everything , according to the ancient saying , Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit . " The saying is still a common form of ...
... meaning to go on smoothly , successfully . Coke quotes it as an ancient saying : " But no simile holds on everything , according to the ancient saying , Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit . " The saying is still a common form of ...
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... meaning that was in his mind . Oceans of blood have been spilled over the interpretation of disputed passages in the Bible . Oceans of ink have been spilled over similar attempts to get at the inner truth of some of Shakespeare's mystic ...
... meaning that was in his mind . Oceans of blood have been spilled over the interpretation of disputed passages in the Bible . Oceans of ink have been spilled over similar attempts to get at the inner truth of some of Shakespeare's mystic ...
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... meaning in some of these blasted allegories ; but I remember that I always had a meaning , or at least thought I had . " When Chamier asked Goldsmith if he meant tardiness of locomotion by the word " slow " in the first line of the ...
... meaning in some of these blasted allegories ; but I remember that I always had a meaning , or at least thought I had . " When Chamier asked Goldsmith if he meant tardiness of locomotion by the word " slow " in the first line of the ...
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... meaning , it were difficult now to determine , but assuredly for many years past it has signified something very different . In what may be called its most vulgar and aggravating sense , it is the first word to greet the English ...
... meaning , it were difficult now to determine , but assuredly for many years past it has signified something very different . In what may be called its most vulgar and aggravating sense , it is the first word to greet the English ...
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Seite 591 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Seite 193 - ... 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 492 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Seite 42 - This is life to come. Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony. Enkindle generous ardor , feed pure love. Beget the smiles that have no cruelty — Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Seite 297 - 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 204 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Seite 246 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Seite 164 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Seite 47 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Seite 274 - He spake ; and, to confirm his words, out-flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.