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Page 35
... common , and leaving the mill on the right , get into the cottaged lane . At a few hundred yards past the sheep- wash , formed in a little dell by the Ravens- bourne , at the end of the open rise , stands " Keston Cross . " Before ...
... common , and leaving the mill on the right , get into the cottaged lane . At a few hundred yards past the sheep- wash , formed in a little dell by the Ravens- bourne , at the end of the open rise , stands " Keston Cross . " Before ...
Page 37
... common phrase and versificatiou- 1 Bustard Red game Black game 1 Turtle , 1201b. I lerned never rhetorike certain ; Thing that I speke it mote be hare and plain : I slept never on the mount of Pernaso , Ne lerned Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
... common phrase and versificatiou- 1 Bustard Red game Black game 1 Turtle , 1201b. I lerned never rhetorike certain ; Thing that I speke it mote be hare and plain : I slept never on the mount of Pernaso , Ne lerned Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
Page 41
... common consump- tion of the afternoon , and the murderer or maker - away of a rainy day . It is the tor- rid zone that scorches the face , and tobacco the gunpowder that blows it up . Much harm would be done , if the charitable vint ...
... common consump- tion of the afternoon , and the murderer or maker - away of a rainy day . It is the tor- rid zone that scorches the face , and tobacco the gunpowder that blows it up . Much harm would be done , if the charitable vint ...
Page 43
... common table with others , his meale will cost him sixepence , or in some places but foure pence , ( yet this course is lesse honour- able , and not vsed by gentlemen ) : but if he will eate in his chamber , he commands what meate he ...
... common table with others , his meale will cost him sixepence , or in some places but foure pence , ( yet this course is lesse honour- able , and not vsed by gentlemen ) : but if he will eate in his chamber , he commands what meate he ...
Page 47
... common parlour , opposite the door , is a coloured print of the burial of a hunts- man - the attendants in " full cry " over the grave - with verses descriptive of the cere- mony . A parlour for the accommodation of private parties has ...
... common parlour , opposite the door , is a coloured print of the burial of a hunts- man - the attendants in " full cry " over the grave - with verses descriptive of the cere- mony . A parlour for the accommodation of private parties has ...
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Page 741 - A man may see how this world goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: Change places; and, handydandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Page 393 - It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They...
Page 439 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Page 441 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 135 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 87 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 563 - Say, did these fingers delve the mine, Or with its envied rubies shine ? To hew the rock, or wear the gem, Can nothing now avail to them ; But if the page of Truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer meed shall claim Than all that waits on wealth or fame.
Page 577 - A tragiccomedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Page 63 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
Page 29 - O a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, , there is a momentary - feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire.