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... play with his name , and dwell upon the consent between it and his condition ; so that when his royal nephew asks him , ' How is it with aged Gaunt ? ' he answers , • ' Oh , how that name befits my composition , Old Gaunt indeed , and ...
... play with his name , and dwell upon the consent between it and his condition ; so that when his royal nephew asks him , ' How is it with aged Gaunt ? ' he answers , • ' Oh , how that name befits my composition , Old Gaunt indeed , and ...
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... play so nicely with their names ? ' * Mark too how , if one is engaged in a con- troversy or quarrel , and his name imports some- thing good , his adversary will lay hold of the name , will seek to bring out a real contradiction between ...
... play so nicely with their names ? ' * Mark too how , if one is engaged in a con- troversy or quarrel , and his name imports some- thing good , his adversary will lay hold of the name , will seek to bring out a real contradiction between ...
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... plays in like manner on the name of St. Vincentius : Qui vincentis habet nomen Ex re probat dignum omen Sui fore nominis ; Vincens terrâ , vincens mari Quidquid potest irrogari Pœnæ vel formidinis . Irenæus means in Greek ' the ...
... plays in like manner on the name of St. Vincentius : Qui vincentis habet nomen Ex re probat dignum omen Sui fore nominis ; Vincens terrâ , vincens mari Quidquid potest irrogari Pœnæ vel formidinis . Irenæus means in Greek ' the ...
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... playing with his name . Fuller , too , our own Church historian , who played so often upon the names of others , has a play made upon his own in some commendatory verses prefixed to one of his books : ' Thy style is clear and white ...
... playing with his name . Fuller , too , our own Church historian , who played so often upon the names of others , has a play made upon his own in some commendatory verses prefixed to one of his books : ' Thy style is clear and white ...
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Richard Chenevix Trench. He plays himself upon it in an epigram which takes the form of a prayer : ' My soul is stainèd with a dusky colour : Let thy Son be the soap ; I'll be the fuller . ' John Careless , whose letters are among the ...
Richard Chenevix Trench. He plays himself upon it in an epigram which takes the form of a prayer : ' My soul is stainèd with a dusky colour : Let thy Son be the soap ; I'll be the fuller . ' John Careless , whose letters are among the ...
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Página 15 - to see what he would call them, and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
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Página 34 - WAS this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium?
Página 101 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Página 57 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Página 33 - No man can read this poem without being struck by the fitness and finish of the workmanship, so to speak, as well as by the chastened and unpretending loftiness of thought which pervades the whole." — GLOBE. Words from the PoetS. Selected by the Editor of
Página 100 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Página 16 - Cowper's TASK: AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. ; TIROCINIUM, or a Review of the Schools; and THE HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN.
Página 38 - Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his well turned, and true filed lines; In each of which he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.