Pribbles and Prabbles: Or, Rambling Reflections on Varied TopicsSkeffington, 1906 - 284 strán (strany) |
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... Greek construction , and that it was freely adopted or imitated by Latin writers - nay , more ; as is the manner of such zealous advocates , they profess to see a positive beauty in it , just as fanatical admirers of Messrs . Robert ...
... Greek construction , and that it was freely adopted or imitated by Latin writers - nay , more ; as is the manner of such zealous advocates , they profess to see a positive beauty in it , just as fanatical admirers of Messrs . Robert ...
Strana 18
... Greek Onpiaký ( theriaké ) , wh ( antidote ) understood , meant a remedy , or venom of any noxious animal , but especial said antidote being supposed to be extract itself ; just as crapulent topers call another dog that bit them . " It ...
... Greek Onpiaký ( theriaké ) , wh ( antidote ) understood , meant a remedy , or venom of any noxious animal , but especial said antidote being supposed to be extract itself ; just as crapulent topers call another dog that bit them . " It ...
Strana 19
... Greek σíkepa , merely means fermented or intoxicating drink ; and since it is , through the Italian and French , the direct parent of our word ' cider , ' it is very natural that Wycliffe should have used the latter in order to denote ...
... Greek σíkepa , merely means fermented or intoxicating drink ; and since it is , through the Italian and French , the direct parent of our word ' cider , ' it is very natural that Wycliffe should have used the latter in order to denote ...
Strana 23
... Greek , cvýleɩa — have entirely lost their proper signification , in which , perhaps , they would have little utility , and now retain no other sense but the secondary , that is to say , the bad , one — if , indeed , they ever had any ...
... Greek , cvýleɩa — have entirely lost their proper signification , in which , perhaps , they would have little utility , and now retain no other sense but the secondary , that is to say , the bad , one — if , indeed , they ever had any ...
Strana 28
... ' o ' is short , and the ' e ' is long , as Greek form , ' Aopodaíos , though the name itself Persian words ' aeshma , ' furious , and ' daeva , ' a f Some diversity of opinion seems to exist as to the. 28 PRIBBLES AND PRABE.
... ' o ' is short , and the ' e ' is long , as Greek form , ' Aopodaíos , though the name itself Persian words ' aeshma , ' furious , and ' daeva , ' a f Some diversity of opinion seems to exist as to the. 28 PRIBBLES AND PRABE.
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Strana 78 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Strana 72 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Strana 78 - Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three. To make a new Thermopylae!
Strana 87 - Aemilium circa ludum faber unus et ungues Exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos, Infelix operis summa quia ponere totum Nesciet. Hune ego me, si quid componere curem, Non magis esse velim quam naso vivere pravo, Spectandum nigris oculis nigroque capillo.
Strana 38 - Si sol splendescat Maria purificante, Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante...
Strana 169 - He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice: As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd...
Strana 190 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his Universities, To one he sends a regiment ; — For why ? That learned body wanted loyalty ; To th' other books he gave, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Strana 103 - Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever — unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.
Strana 188 - Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confest.
Strana 78 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!