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... common proverb current here , in " NOTES AND QUERIES , " Vol . i . , p . 303 . J. MILNER BARRY . Lucy and Colin . - Can you tell me who was the author of " Lucy and Colin , " so beautifully translated by Vincent Bourne , and by him en ...
... common proverb current here , in " NOTES AND QUERIES , " Vol . i . , p . 303 . J. MILNER BARRY . Lucy and Colin . - Can you tell me who was the author of " Lucy and Colin , " so beautifully translated by Vincent Bourne , and by him en ...
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... Common Prayer . They officiated in the service of the mass , had the five wounds of Christ represented in some of their colours , and a chalice in others . One Richard Norton , an ancient gentleman , carried the standard with a cross in ...
... Common Prayer . They officiated in the service of the mass , had the five wounds of Christ represented in some of their colours , and a chalice in others . One Richard Norton , an ancient gentleman , carried the standard with a cross in ...
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... common blunder the context will show - that the ear has misled the eye ; but if he change an epithet in a well - known passage , the first syl- lable of the right and the wrong words being the same , and the violation of the propriety ...
... common blunder the context will show - that the ear has misled the eye ; but if he change an epithet in a well - known passage , the first syl- lable of the right and the wrong words being the same , and the violation of the propriety ...
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... Common Prayer . Set forth by Authority of Parliament , in the Reign of King Edward VI . Compared with each other . By EDWARD CARD- WELL , D.D. , Principal of St. Alban's Hall . Second Edition . 8vo . 8s . By the same Editor , History of ...
... Common Prayer . Set forth by Authority of Parliament , in the Reign of King Edward VI . Compared with each other . By EDWARD CARD- WELL , D.D. , Principal of St. Alban's Hall . Second Edition . 8vo . 8s . By the same Editor , History of ...
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... common street - ditty , among the boys of Campden , in Gloucestershire . " Jonathan Hulls , With his paper skulls , Invented a machine To go against wind and stream ; But he , being an ass , Couldn't bring it to pass , And so was asham ...
... common street - ditty , among the boys of Campden , in Gloucestershire . " Jonathan Hulls , With his paper skulls , Invented a machine To go against wind and stream ; But he , being an ass , Couldn't bring it to pass , And so was asham ...
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Page 55 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 55 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven ? 43 Jesus therefore answered, and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
Page 333 - If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
Page 57 - twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle. To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die ! Now too — the joy most like divine Of all I ever dreamt or knew. To see thee, hear thee, call thee mine, — Oh, misery! must I lose that too? Yet go — on peril's brink we meet ; — Those frightful rocks — that treacherous sea — No, never come again — though sweet, Though heaven, it may be death to thee.
Page 414 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey...
Page 150 - And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
Page 333 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 167 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 315 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 142 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.