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Curiosities of Law and Lawyers - Page 370
by James Paterson - 1882 - 516 pages
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The Goblins of Neapolis

William Smith - English poetry - 1836 - 190 pages
...this I see ? — a yawn ! I doubt you deem the term quite pat ; And my descriptive verses — -flat. ' Rich windows, that exclude the light ; And passages, that lead to nothing. — GBAY. TAR ARE ;* TAR1.ETV RAULF.TY RA.f 0 fy ! what a horribly dirty face, Miss Tarlety Rarlety...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 1

1837 - 646 pages
...may mention the description of the mansion, containing one line, which has become proverbial, — " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." A compliment to Lady Cobham in the eighth stanza is elegantly turned : — " The other Amazon kind...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...Hattons there Employ'd the pow'r of Fairy hands To raise the cieling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude...spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-Keeper led the trawls ; The seal and mace» danc'd before him. His bushy beard and shoe-strings...
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The unity of disease analytically and synthetically proved

Samuel Dickson - Diseases - 1838 - 248 pages
...contributed to the healing art? May not these be fairly summed up in two lines of Gray's Odd Story?— " Rich 'windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." Indeed, so great a stumbling-block to a proper knowledge of medicine is this exclusive, and too minute...
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Fallacies of the faculty, in a ser. of lectures

Samuel Dickson - 1839 - 320 pages
...contributed to the healing art, may be happily, or rather unhappily, summed up in the two lines of Gray : " Rich windows, that — exclude the light, And passages that lead to — nothing." What discoveries has half a century of " Pathological" research presented to the expectant world ?...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 15

1840 - 824 pages
...Employed the power of fairy hands, To raise the ceiling's fretted height. Each panne) In achievement clothing Rich windows, that exclude the light. And...passages that lead to nothing Full oft, within the spacioui walla. When he had fifty wlnterso'er him, The grave Lord Keeper led thebrawls. The seals and...
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A Notice of Ely Chapel, Holborn: With Some Account of Ely Palace : to which ...

Thomas Boyles Murray - Chapels - 1840 - 62 pages
...noone." Gray's allusion to this statesman may be well inserted after the sketch given by Naunton : — "Full oft within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-keeper led the brawls*, The seal and maces dancM before him. " His bushy beard and shoe-strings...
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Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A ..., Volume 7

Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...quoted for the sake of the allusion to Elizabeth's suspected passion for the handsome lawyer : — " Full oft, within the spacious walls, When he had fifty winters o'er him. My grave lord-keeper led the brawls,3 The seals and maces danced before him. 1 Nichols' Progresses of...
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A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn; with some account of Ely palace

Thomas Boyles Murray - 1840 - 68 pages
...noone." Gray's allusion to this statesman may be well inserted after the sketch given by Naunton:— " Full oft within the spacious walls. When he had fifty winters o'er him, My grave Lord-keeper led the brawls*, The seal and maces danc'd before him. " His bushy beard and shoe-strings...
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The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor

Christianity - 1840 - 516 pages
...were erected in haste, and the interior accommodations were mostly ill planned and inconvenient, " Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." The bay window formed a remarkable contrast to the narrow loop holes of earlier times. Large windows...
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