Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 strán (strany) |
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Strana 10
... once favorite form of literary legerdemain . In its simplest and most usual form it consists of a copy of verses whose initial letters taken in order spell a word , a proper name , or a sentence . The following specimen is by Charles ...
... once favorite form of literary legerdemain . In its simplest and most usual form it consists of a copy of verses whose initial letters taken in order spell a word , a proper name , or a sentence . The following specimen is by Charles ...
Strana 22
... once in a manger lay , And starved himself to keep an Ox from hay . Altho ' thereof he could not eat , Yet if the Ox was starved to him ' twas sweet His neighbor's comfort thus for to annoy , Altho ' thereby he did his own destroy . O ...
... once in a manger lay , And starved himself to keep an Ox from hay . Altho ' thereof he could not eat , Yet if the Ox was starved to him ' twas sweet His neighbor's comfort thus for to annoy , Altho ' thereby he did his own destroy . O ...
Strana 31
... once more to be heard from : " G- Arthur and E. J. W. are inex- cusable in absenting themselves from the two indescribables . Do not leave under a wilful delusion . ... All communication is intercepted in England and abroad , and our ...
... once more to be heard from : " G- Arthur and E. J. W. are inex- cusable in absenting themselves from the two indescribables . Do not leave under a wilful delusion . ... All communication is intercepted in England and abroad , and our ...
Strana 42
... once raising the unmeaning taboo . Others have made inordinate use of some letter and insisted that it should form the initial of every word . The first called their Procrustean method lipogrammatizing ; the latter , alliteration . Each ...
... once raising the unmeaning taboo . Others have made inordinate use of some letter and insisted that it should form the initial of every word . The first called their Procrustean method lipogrammatizing ; the latter , alliteration . Each ...
Strana 52
... once boasted a high estate and taxed the reverence of the wise , the learned , and the devout . The Hebrews held that there was something divine in this species of word - torture . Nay , some Rabbins assert that the esoteric law given ...
... once boasted a high estate and taxed the reverence of the wise , the learned , and the devout . The Hebrews held that there was something divine in this species of word - torture . Nay , some Rabbins assert that the esoteric law given ...
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Strana 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Strana 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Strana 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Strana 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Strana 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Strana 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Strana 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Strana 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Strana 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Strana 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.