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Сторінка viii
... means of redressing their grievances in their own hands . No one is bound to prepare himself only in those subjects that are barren of honour , and to become a martyr for the sacred prescriptive rights of Greek and the calculus . If it ...
... means of redressing their grievances in their own hands . No one is bound to prepare himself only in those subjects that are barren of honour , and to become a martyr for the sacred prescriptive rights of Greek and the calculus . If it ...
Сторінка ix
... means their strong point . 6 It has also been objected that English is pecu- liarly liable to be crammed ' for examination purposes ; and the term ' cramming ' is used in so many senses that it is not easy to answer an objection that ...
... means their strong point . 6 It has also been objected that English is pecu- liarly liable to be crammed ' for examination purposes ; and the term ' cramming ' is used in so many senses that it is not easy to answer an objection that ...
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... mean to say in it . If necessary write it down on a piece of waste paper : you will thus avoid erasures on your manuscript ; and erasures are seldom made without affecting the grammar and punctuation of a sentence , for which the ...
... mean to say in it . If necessary write it down on a piece of waste paper : you will thus avoid erasures on your manuscript ; and erasures are seldom made without affecting the grammar and punctuation of a sentence , for which the ...
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... means simply foreign travel ; toun is still used in Scotland in the sense in which it is here employed , farm - buildings ; wombe , as usual in Old English , means belly ; coddis , still em- ployed in such a word as peascod , means husk ...
... means simply foreign travel ; toun is still used in Scotland in the sense in which it is here employed , farm - buildings ; wombe , as usual in Old English , means belly ; coddis , still em- ployed in such a word as peascod , means husk ...
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... means in the morning . Aller cok , in line 4 , means cock of all , i.e. he awoke us all , as the cock does by crowing in the morning . The word aller is employed also by Shakspere , ' mine alderliefest ( i.e. dearest of all ) sovereign ...
... means in the morning . Aller cok , in line 4 , means cock of all , i.e. he awoke us all , as the cock does by crowing in the morning . The word aller is employed also by Shakspere , ' mine alderliefest ( i.e. dearest of all ) sovereign ...
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Сторінка 58 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Сторінка 138 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...
Сторінка 120 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless...
Сторінка 144 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Сторінка 59 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
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Сторінка 135 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Сторінка 137 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Сторінка 133 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Сторінка 152 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.