Notes and QueriesOxford University Press, 1879 |
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... living who can confirm the story of the apparition to Mr. Cunningham in Derbyshire ? ( See " N. & Q. , " 2nd S. i . 463. ) The first part of the apparition - the capture - was ful- filled ; the second part , of the execution - near a ...
... living who can confirm the story of the apparition to Mr. Cunningham in Derbyshire ? ( See " N. & Q. , " 2nd S. i . 463. ) The first part of the apparition - the capture - was ful- filled ; the second part , of the execution - near a ...
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... living , and the first situation he filled was at Sleaford as servant to a shopkeeper ; after this he went to Lincoln to wait upon a lady , and during this servitude used at every opportunity to make weather glasses and weather- houses ...
... living , and the first situation he filled was at Sleaford as servant to a shopkeeper ; after this he went to Lincoln to wait upon a lady , and during this servitude used at every opportunity to make weather glasses and weather- houses ...
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... Living Actors and Actresses of the British Stage . Compiled and Edited by Charles Eyre Pascoe . ( Hardwicke & Bogue . ) DRAMATIC list adequately compiled should take its place as a work of reference . A careful and judicious use of a ...
... Living Actors and Actresses of the British Stage . Compiled and Edited by Charles Eyre Pascoe . ( Hardwicke & Bogue . ) DRAMATIC list adequately compiled should take its place as a work of reference . A careful and judicious use of a ...
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... living actors are for the most part im- pertinent or apocryphal . That section of the public which is always anxious to know the age of a favourite is likely to be balked . Seldom has a work with so much biographical matter given so few ...
... living actors are for the most part im- pertinent or apocryphal . That section of the public which is always anxious to know the age of a favourite is likely to be balked . Seldom has a work with so much biographical matter given so few ...
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... living in the same way . " " I now beg to say Notes and Queries is a wonderful institution , " and I say so advisedly . Last week I made in it some inquiries about Montagu Bacon on Hudibras . It was nothing wonderful that I should ...
... living in the same way . " " I now beg to say Notes and Queries is a wonderful institution , " and I say so advisedly . Last week I made in it some inquiries about Montagu Bacon on Hudibras . It was nothing wonderful that I should ...
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Strana 110 - I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Strana 26 - He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country : there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
Strana 148 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Strana 234 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Strana 245 - Hence the good and happiness of the members — that is, the majority of the members — of any state, is the great standard by which everything relating to that state must finally be determined...
Strana 344 - Our life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Strana 147 - Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Strana 108 - Regulator, of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous, and liberal, his Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions, that he never went wrong, except when set a-going by people who did not know his Key : even then he was easily set right again.
Strana 102 - For, madam, said Sir Launcelot, I love not to be constrained to love ; for love must arise of the heart, and not by no constraint. That is truth...
Strana 435 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.