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NEW VOLUME OF THE STORY OF THE NATIONS . " • The TUSCAN REPUBLICS and GENOA . By BELLA DUFFY . Maps , Illustrations , and Index . Large crown 8vo . cloth , 5s . Bright , picturesque , and genuinely informing . " - Globe . MR .
NEW VOLUME OF THE STORY OF THE NATIONS . " • The TUSCAN REPUBLICS and GENOA . By BELLA DUFFY . Maps , Illustrations , and Index . Large crown 8vo . cloth , 5s . Bright , picturesque , and genuinely informing . " - Globe . MR .
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That this is so , however , is clearly seen in the following excerpt from The Story of Genesis and Exodus , an Early English Song , ' written about the end of the thirteenth century : - Potifar trewith hise wife's tale , And haved doomt ...
That this is so , however , is clearly seen in the following excerpt from The Story of Genesis and Exodus , an Early English Song , ' written about the end of the thirteenth century : - Potifar trewith hise wife's tale , And haved doomt ...
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407 ) -Macaulay , whose memory was as tenacious as it was reproductive , no doubt took this name from ' Roderick Random ' -in which story Orson Topehall , the brother of Narcissa , is represented as a hard - drinking squire -and then ...
407 ) -Macaulay , whose memory was as tenacious as it was reproductive , no doubt took this name from ' Roderick Random ' -in which story Orson Topehall , the brother of Narcissa , is represented as a hard - drinking squire -and then ...
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The MYSTERY of ST . DUNSTAN'S : a Realistic and Sensational Story of Fleet Street in 1724. By THOMAS WRIGHT , Author of The Life of William Cowper , ' & c . 2 vols . crown 8vo . cloth , 213 . " A capital story . " - Daily Chronicle .
The MYSTERY of ST . DUNSTAN'S : a Realistic and Sensational Story of Fleet Street in 1724. By THOMAS WRIGHT , Author of The Life of William Cowper , ' & c . 2 vols . crown 8vo . cloth , 213 . " A capital story . " - Daily Chronicle .
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3 , 1892 ) gives the follow- ing analogue of the folk - story best known to us in its Welsh form of ' Beddgelert ' ( ' Gellert's Grave ' ) : " The Banjaras occasionally keep dogs , and it was , we believe , a Banjara dog which gave rise ...
3 , 1892 ) gives the follow- ing analogue of the folk - story best known to us in its Welsh form of ' Beddgelert ' ( ' Gellert's Grave ' ) : " The Banjaras occasionally keep dogs , and it was , we believe , a Banjara dog which gave rise ...
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Pagina 20 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Pagina 159 - He is made one with Nature: there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Pagina 100 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Pagina 60 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Pagina 7 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the muses...
Pagina 220 - Oh lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line ; New graces yearly like thy works display...
Pagina 300 - I'd have you do it ever: when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Pagina 300 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function. Each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present...
Pagina 226 - Prospects of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church.
Pagina 12 - 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.