Words Ancient and Modern

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J. Murray, 1926 - 163 стор.
 

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Сторінка 138 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Сторінка 34 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government ; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people.
Сторінка 85 - Philistinism ! — we have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. At Soli, I imagine, they did not talk of solecisms ; and here, at the very headquarters of Goliath, nobody talks of Philistinism.
Сторінка 29 - And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army. And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
Сторінка 81 - I thence walked with him through St. James's Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Сторінка 105 - And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line ! Without this just gradation, could they be Subjected, these to those, or all to thee ? The powers of all subdued by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? VIII.
Сторінка 138 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Сторінка 114 - To it belongeth more than 3000 churches and monasteries, and these the best built and adorned of any in Italy. They greatly affect the Spanish gravity in their habit ; delight in good horses ; the streets are full of gallants on horseback, in coaches and sedans, from hence brought first into England by Sir Sanders Duncomb.
Сторінка 118 - Having seen the strange and wonderful dexterity of the sliders on the new canal in St. James's Park, performed before their Majesties by divers gentlemen and others with skates, after the manner of the Hollanders...
Сторінка 79 - To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York playing at Pelemele, the first time that ever I saw the sport.

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