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... query . upon P.S. - Here is another illustration that has just turned up : - : - " His feet are set rather wide apart , in the fashion of gentlemen approaching a certain weight . " - Out of the Question , ' by W. D. Howells , pp . 133-4 ...
... query . upon P.S. - Here is another illustration that has just turned up : - : - " His feet are set rather wide apart , in the fashion of gentlemen approaching a certain weight . " - Out of the Question , ' by W. D. Howells , pp . 133-4 ...
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... queries privately . To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule . Let each note , query , or reply be written on a separate slip of paper , with the signature of the writer and such address as he ...
... queries privately . To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule . Let each note , query , or reply be written on a separate slip of paper , with the signature of the writer and such address as he ...
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... query of H. C. F. on this subject does not seem to have been answered ( ' N. & Q. , ' 6th S. xi . 207 ) . I Mary , dau . of Richard Brooke of Astley , christened Thomas Brooke is generally supposed to have been the youngest 7th S , VI ...
... query of H. C. F. on this subject does not seem to have been answered ( ' N. & Q. , ' 6th S. xi . 207 ) . I Mary , dau . of Richard Brooke of Astley , christened Thomas Brooke is generally supposed to have been the youngest 7th S , VI ...
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... query in the Broad Arrow , Novem- ber , 1886 , when it was fully answered by one sign- ing himself " Cheval Noir " ( another sobriquet , " The Black Horse , " from the facings of that gallant corps ) to above effect . Since then I ...
... query in the Broad Arrow , Novem- ber , 1886 , when it was fully answered by one sign- ing himself " Cheval Noir " ( another sobriquet , " The Black Horse , " from the facings of that gallant corps ) to above effect . Since then I ...
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... query . In Don Quixote's famous description of the pagan hosts ( in c . 18 , part i . ) " los Etiopes de horadados labios " means nothing else than " the Ethiopians with bored ( or pierced ) lips , " and is so rendered by every English ...
... query . In Don Quixote's famous description of the pagan hosts ( in c . 18 , part i . ) " los Etiopes de horadados labios " means nothing else than " the Ethiopians with bored ( or pierced ) lips , " and is so rendered by every English ...
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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,