The Antiquarian Chronicle and Literary Advertiser, Issue 1J.H. Fennell, 1882 - Great Britain |
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... stands rural aspect . Some parts of the grounds less a remnant of an ancient forest , that a solitary hawthorn tree , presumably attached to the Pavilion were once well- overspread North Kent when so much of planted as a landmark , to ...
... stands rural aspect . Some parts of the grounds less a remnant of an ancient forest , that a solitary hawthorn tree , presumably attached to the Pavilion were once well- overspread North Kent when so much of planted as a landmark , to ...
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... standing , named relation of my family , " said he , " expired heap with ridicule everything that savours Oxenham , who reside at South Yawton , last night in the castle . We disguised our of superstition , we are yet compelled to near ...
... standing , named relation of my family , " said he , " expired heap with ridicule everything that savours Oxenham , who reside at South Yawton , last night in the castle . We disguised our of superstition , we are yet compelled to near ...
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... stand either more or lesse : for as one are not unlikely to occasion other vapours Hair of all kinds ; Perriwig Ribbons ; Cauls , starre differeth from another in lustre and then their more unsophisticated food did Weaving Silk , and ...
... stand either more or lesse : for as one are not unlikely to occasion other vapours Hair of all kinds ; Perriwig Ribbons ; Cauls , starre differeth from another in lustre and then their more unsophisticated food did Weaving Silk , and ...
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... stand still , or each of them possessed of these needles , peculiar manner with a large caldron of move till it came to C , then to O , then to made a kind of dial - plate , inscribing it with boiling - water ; that the experiments were ...
... stand still , or each of them possessed of these needles , peculiar manner with a large caldron of move till it came to C , then to O , then to made a kind of dial - plate , inscribing it with boiling - water ; that the experiments were ...
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... stand to the loss . In lati- tude 89 deg . north , we were alarmed with a rumbling noise like thunder at a distance . IRONCLAD MEN - OF - WAR . The late As there was but little wind southerly , the Emperor Napoleon III . is generally ...
... stand to the loss . In lati- tude 89 deg . north , we were alarmed with a rumbling noise like thunder at a distance . IRONCLAD MEN - OF - WAR . The late As there was but little wind southerly , the Emperor Napoleon III . is generally ...
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Page 167 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, — Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; — And take...
Page 95 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 63 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 50 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 143 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth.
Page 145 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 15 - The friend in the meanwhile saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant over cities or mountains, seas or deserts.
Page 98 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 141 - THE LATE, | And much admired Play, | Called | Pericles, Prince | of Tyre. | With the true Relation of the whole Historie, | aduentures, and fortunes of the said Prince : | As also, | The no lesse strange, and worthy accidents, | in the Birth and Life, of his Daughter | MARIANA. \ As it hath been diuers and sundry times acted by | his Maiesties Seruants, at the Globe on | the Banck-side. | By William Shakespeare. | Imprinted at London for Henry Gosson, and are | to be sold at the signe of the Sunne...
Page 15 - ... letters, in the same manner as the hours of the day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They then fixed one of the needles on each of these plates in such a manner that it could move round without impediment so as to touch any of the four-and-twenty letters.