Crowell's Handbook for Readers and Writers: A Dictionary of Famous Characters and Plots in Legend, Fiction, Drama, Opera and Poetry, Together with Dates and Principal Works of Important Authors, Literary and Journalistic Terms, and Familiar AllusionsHenrietta Gerwig Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1925 - 728 pàgines |
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... England from 1782 to 1807 , without whose signature no Bank of England notes were genuine . Abram - Man , or Abraham Cove . A pretended maniac who , in Tudor and early Stuart times , wandered about the country as a begging impostor ; a ...
... England from 1782 to 1807 , without whose signature no Bank of England notes were genuine . Abram - Man , or Abraham Cove . A pretended maniac who , in Tudor and early Stuart times , wandered about the country as a begging impostor ; a ...
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... England Perfide Albion . Albrac'ca . In Boiardo's famous epic , Orlando Innamorato ( q.v. ) , a castle of Cathay ' ( China ) , to which Angel'ica retires in grief when she finds her love for Rinaldo is not reciprocated . Here she is ...
... England Perfide Albion . Albrac'ca . In Boiardo's famous epic , Orlando Innamorato ( q.v. ) , a castle of Cathay ' ( China ) , to which Angel'ica retires in grief when she finds her love for Rinaldo is not reciprocated . Here she is ...
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... England he founded a school and gathered around him learned men from all parts . These became known as " Alfred's scholars " ; the chie among them are : Werfrith , Bishop of Worcester ; Ethelstan and Werwulf , two Mercian priests ...
... England he founded a school and gathered around him learned men from all parts . These became known as " Alfred's scholars " ; the chie among them are : Werfrith , Bishop of Worcester ; Ethelstan and Werwulf , two Mercian priests ...
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... England open to modern ideas and desirous of doing good with her wealth . The hero of the book is Rev. Mr. Peck , a young clergyman afire with social service ideals and extremely impatient . of the old - fashioned snobbish charity ...
... England open to modern ideas and desirous of doing good with her wealth . The hero of the book is Rev. Mr. Peck , a young clergyman afire with social service ideals and extremely impatient . of the old - fashioned snobbish charity ...
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... England . Armado , Don Adriano de . A pompous military bully and braggart , in Shake- speare's Love's Labour's Lost . His humour is lofty , his discourse peremptory , his tongue filed , his eye ambitious , his gait majestical , an 1 his ...
... England . Armado , Don Adriano de . A pompous military bully and braggart , in Shake- speare's Love's Labour's Lost . His humour is lofty , his discourse peremptory , his tongue filed , his eye ambitious , his gait majestical , an 1 his ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 276 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose...
Pàgina 368 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Pàgina 326 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Pàgina 89 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Pàgina 237 - I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, the reason why I cannot tell, But this I know and know full well, I do not love thee, Dr. Fell...
Pàgina 428 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Pàgina 302 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips And all is dross that is not Helena.
Pàgina 374 - PARTIES, in order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security, by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organized peoples with one another, Agree...
Pàgina 10 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Pàgina 236 - There my retreat the best companions grace, Chiefs out of war, and statesmen out of place: There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...