The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis]., Volume 15Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) 1839 |
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... Dryden . Mitred abbots , among us , were those that were exempt from the diocesan's jurisdiction , as having within their own precincts episcopal authority , and being lords in parliament were called abbots sovereign . Ayliffe's ...
... Dryden . Mitred abbots , among us , were those that were exempt from the diocesan's jurisdiction , as having within their own precincts episcopal authority , and being lords in parliament were called abbots sovereign . Ayliffe's ...
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... Dryden . Vitred abbots , among us , were those that were exempt from the diocesan's jurisdiction , as having within their own precincts episcopal authority , and being lords in parliament were called abbots sovereign . Ayliffe's ...
... Dryden . Vitred abbots , among us , were those that were exempt from the diocesan's jurisdiction , as having within their own precincts episcopal authority , and being lords in parliament were called abbots sovereign . Ayliffe's ...
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... ditches with the slain . Dryden . An arm of Lethe , with a gentle flow , The palace moats , and o'er the pebbles creeps , And with soft murmurs calls the coming sleeps . Id . MOAT , or ditch , in fortification . The brink MNI MOA 6.
... ditches with the slain . Dryden . An arm of Lethe , with a gentle flow , The palace moats , and o'er the pebbles creeps , And with soft murmurs calls the coming sleeps . Id . MOAT , or ditch , in fortification . The brink MNI MOA 6.
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... Dryden's Don Sebastian . Dreams are but interludes , which fancy makes , When monarch reason sleeps , this mimick wakes ; Compounds a medley of disjointed things , A court of cobblers , and a mob of kings . The mobile are uneasy without ...
... Dryden's Don Sebastian . Dreams are but interludes , which fancy makes , When monarch reason sleeps , this mimick wakes ; Compounds a medley of disjointed things , A court of cobblers , and a mob of kings . The mobile are uneasy without ...
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... Dryden . These are tenets which the moderatest of the Ro- manists will not venture to affirm . Smalridge . Ye swarthy nations of the torrid zone , How well to you is this great bounty known ! For frequent gales from the wide ocean rise ...
... Dryden . These are tenets which the moderatest of the Ro- manists will not venture to affirm . Smalridge . Ye swarthy nations of the torrid zone , How well to you is this great bounty known ! For frequent gales from the wide ocean rise ...
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Page 189 - Morn dawns ; and with it stern Albania's hills, Dark Sulis' rocks and Pindus' inland peak, Robed half in mist, bedewed with snowy rills, Arrayed in many a dun and purple streak, Arise ; and, as the clouds along them break. Disclose the dwelling of the mountaineer.