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... says , " To chaffer is now to talk much and idly " ; and Webster , Ogilvie , Cassell , & c . , have this sense on the authority of Trench . But no examples of chaffer = chatter , jabber , have been sent in by the readers for the ...
... says , " To chaffer is now to talk much and idly " ; and Webster , Ogilvie , Cassell , & c . , have this sense on the authority of Trench . But no examples of chaffer = chatter , jabber , have been sent in by the readers for the ...
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... says that gentleman's wife , sitting by his bedside , and trying to amuse him as well as he could in the intervals of pain , happened to get on the subject of the Jews , as he had observed them when he spent some time in Germany in his ...
... says that gentleman's wife , sitting by his bedside , and trying to amuse him as well as he could in the intervals of pain , happened to get on the subject of the Jews , as he had observed them when he spent some time in Germany in his ...
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... say rather the stateliest with one exception , namely Milton's blank verse , and I do not think Tennyson , judging from what he says of Milton's verse in his beautiful Alcaics entitled ' Milton , ' would en- tirely disagree with me ...
... say rather the stateliest with one exception , namely Milton's blank verse , and I do not think Tennyson , judging from what he says of Milton's verse in his beautiful Alcaics entitled ' Milton , ' would en- tirely disagree with me ...
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... says , p . 342 , " Some say also that it is good for the chames or chenkes of the skin . " I should be glad to have information about the word chames . J. A. H. MURRAY . The Scriptorium , Oxford . ILLUSTRATORS OF GRANT'S SKETCHES IN ...
... says , p . 342 , " Some say also that it is good for the chames or chenkes of the skin . " I should be glad to have information about the word chames . J. A. H. MURRAY . The Scriptorium , Oxford . ILLUSTRATORS OF GRANT'S SKETCHES IN ...
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... says , " Je m'aperçois que la dernière parti du recit aura été détruite par le Comte Marcolini , dépositaire confident du manuscrit à la morte de Casanova . " As Comte de Waldstein would natur- ally have wished to avoid a publication so ...
... says , " Je m'aperçois que la dernière parti du recit aura été détruite par le Comte Marcolini , dépositaire confident du manuscrit à la morte de Casanova . " As Comte de Waldstein would natur- ally have wished to avoid a publication so ...
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Página 106 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 203 - Thither have been carried, through successive ages, by the rude hands of gaolers, without one mourner following, the bleeding relics of men who had been the captains of armies, the leaders of parties, the oracles of senates, and the ornaments of courts.
Página 338 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Página 212 - What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea...
Página 24 - Thou that singest wheat and woodland, tilth and vineyard, hive and horse and herd; All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word...
Página 338 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Página 204 - Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks ; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one. Nor blame I Death, because he bare The use of virtue out of earth ; I know transplanted human worth Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.
Página 193 - slithy' means 'lithe and slimy.' 'Lithe' is the same as 'active.' You see it's like a portmanteau— there are two meanings packed up into one word.
Página 54 - O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
Página 7 - To show their particular aversion to it, they branded this form of writing with the name of an egotism; a figure not to be found among the ancient rhetoricians. The most violent egotism which I have met with in the course of my reading, is that of cardinal Wolsey, ego et rex meus,