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... readers on the opportunity now offered of obtaining so handsome an edition at so cheap a rate . The type , paper , and binding are excellent . " Daily News . " The new edition , which is to be completed in twenty - four volumes , has ...
... readers on the opportunity now offered of obtaining so handsome an edition at so cheap a rate . The type , paper , and binding are excellent . " Daily News . " The new edition , which is to be completed in twenty - four volumes , has ...
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... readers refer me to any mention of them by our great poet ? Guildford .. D. M. STEVENS . HERALDIC . - The arms borne by Richard Owen , of Morben , co . Montgomery , who , in the early part of the seventeenth century , married the ...
... readers refer me to any mention of them by our great poet ? Guildford .. D. M. STEVENS . HERALDIC . - The arms borne by Richard Owen , of Morben , co . Montgomery , who , in the early part of the seventeenth century , married the ...
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... reader with the following table ( and a similar one is annexed to the Lounger ) , by which he is informed of the ... readers will discover a high tone of feeling , a power and energy of expression , particularly and strongly charac ...
... reader with the following table ( and a similar one is annexed to the Lounger ) , by which he is informed of the ... readers will discover a high tone of feeling , a power and energy of expression , particularly and strongly charac ...
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... Reader " is signed " J. B. " Verses " to his Worthy Friend , the Author of the Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress , upon Perusal thereto , " & c ... READERS , ETC. With Index , price 5th S. IX . JAN . 12 , " 78. ] 37 NOTES AND QUERIES .
... Reader " is signed " J. B. " Verses " to his Worthy Friend , the Author of the Third Part of the Pilgrim's Progress , upon Perusal thereto , " & c ... READERS , ETC. With Index , price 5th S. IX . JAN . 12 , " 78. ] 37 NOTES AND QUERIES .
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... readers tell me if the title was ever conferred by that monarch ? if so , if there is any list of names to which I ... reading the book . Among the documents Dumas mentions the note of Sir W. Hamilton to Ruffo , which said Nelson would ...
... readers tell me if the title was ever conferred by that monarch ? if so , if there is any list of names to which I ... reading the book . Among the documents Dumas mentions the note of Sir W. Hamilton to Ruffo , which said Nelson would ...
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Page 289 - O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
Page 66 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 223 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, that hath fought for his country, Queen, religion, and honour; whereby my soul most joyfully departeth out of this body, and shall always leave behind it an everlasting fame of a valiant and true soldier that hath done his duty as he was bound to do.
Page 35 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Page 289 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 44 - Choristers, old Vicars and new Vicars of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, and all other their under officers...
Page 104 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Page 278 - I began last week to permit my wife to sit at dinner with me, at the farthest end of a long table ; and to answer (but with the utmost brevity) the few questions I asked her. Yet, the smell of a yahoo continuing very offensive, I always keep my nose well stopped with rue, lavender, or tobacco leaves.
Page 291 - Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris : quia non est alius qui pugnet pro nobis, nisi tu, Deus noster.
Page 359 - For, an ye heard a music, like enow They are building still, seeing the city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever.