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... writes at length about the " bull - roarer , " as examined by himself in Torres Straits and elsewhere in the Pacific . He also mentions that it is used as a boy's toy in Warwickshire , Stafford- shire , and Worcestershire , and that it ...
... writes at length about the " bull - roarer , " as examined by himself in Torres Straits and elsewhere in the Pacific . He also mentions that it is used as a boy's toy in Warwickshire , Stafford- shire , and Worcestershire , and that it ...
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... write to me direct , I might be able to assist him somewhat to a correct succession of the Dukes of Brittany . W. D. PINK . Leigh , Lancashire . The following may help J. G. Peter I. , John I. son , John II . son , Arthur I. son , John ...
... write to me direct , I might be able to assist him somewhat to a correct succession of the Dukes of Brittany . W. D. PINK . Leigh , Lancashire . The following may help J. G. Peter I. , John I. son , John II . son , Arthur I. son , John ...
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... writes on The Holy Wells of Scotland , ' Mr. A. W. Moore on Manx Folk - lore , ' and Mr. Cripps , C.B. , on A Pre - Reformation Chalice . There are abundance of illustrations . illustrated by views of Schomberg House , Lansdowne House ...
... writes on The Holy Wells of Scotland , ' Mr. A. W. Moore on Manx Folk - lore , ' and Mr. Cripps , C.B. , on A Pre - Reformation Chalice . There are abundance of illustrations . illustrated by views of Schomberg House , Lansdowne House ...
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... writes on Froissart the Lover , ' the information contained in his very inter- esting article being drawn from Froissart's ' Espinettes Amoureuses , ' & work much less familiar than his Chro- niques . An account of " The Hunters of the ...
... writes on Froissart the Lover , ' the information contained in his very inter- esting article being drawn from Froissart's ' Espinettes Amoureuses , ' & work much less familiar than his Chro- niques . An account of " The Hunters of the ...
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... write grammatically in her own language , and her spelling was the worst I ever have read a specimen of . She could neither write nor speak English , so your intensely interesting letter must have been a translation if not a forgery ...
... write grammatically in her own language , and her spelling was the worst I ever have read a specimen of . She could neither write nor speak English , so your intensely interesting letter must have been a translation if not a forgery ...
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Página 352 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 18 - Pierced thro' the mystic dome, Regions of lucid matter taking forms, Brushes of fire, hazy gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of suns, and starry streams.
Página 365 - ... unto them; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse, and with faint desires of reunion. If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants. If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition ; we live with death, and die not in a moment. How many pulses made up the life of Methuselah, were work for Archimedes: common counters sum up the life...
Página 162 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Página 174 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 119 - Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
Página 140 - The UNCANONICAL and APOCRYPHAL SCRIPTURES. Being the Additions to the Old Testament Canon which were included in the Ancient Greek and Latin Versions; the English Teit of the Authorized Version, together with the Additional Matter found In the Vulgate and other Ancient Versions; Introductions to the several Books and Fragments; Marginal Notes and References ; and a General Introduction to the Apocrypha. By the Rev.
Página 126 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Página 250 - Tullochgorum. But for the sullen frumpish fool, That loves to be oppression's tool, May envy gnaw his rotten soul, And discontent devour him ! May dool and sorrow be his chance, Dool and sorrow, dool and sorrow, May dool and sorrow be his chance, And nane say, wae's me for him ! May dool and sorrow be his chance, Wi' a' the ills that come frae France, Whae'er he be that winna dance The reel o