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... reader , the simple ones that puzzle a lexicographer . Have you ever tried to define table , cup , boot ? GRAY'S " ELEGY . " " Are there not in existence certain stanzas which Gray wrote for his ' Elegy ' but did not include in it ; if ...
... reader , the simple ones that puzzle a lexicographer . Have you ever tried to define table , cup , boot ? GRAY'S " ELEGY . " " Are there not in existence certain stanzas which Gray wrote for his ' Elegy ' but did not include in it ; if ...
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... writer aptly quotes Turgenev : Nothing is stronger in the world . . . and weaker - than a word . " " Uplift " is " hot air . " 66 " LESSER . " A reader wrote : " I have been surprised to find the word ' lesser ' in several dictionaries ...
... writer aptly quotes Turgenev : Nothing is stronger in the world . . . and weaker - than a word . " " Uplift " is " hot air . " 66 " LESSER . " A reader wrote : " I have been surprised to find the word ' lesser ' in several dictionaries ...
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... reader wrote to me to complain that Latin quotations in leading articles and else- where irritate him , and he ... written than " Ne sutor ultra crepidam , " and " Let justice be done though the heavens fall " than " Fiat justitia , ruat ...
... reader wrote to me to complain that Latin quotations in leading articles and else- where irritate him , and he ... written than " Ne sutor ultra crepidam , " and " Let justice be done though the heavens fall " than " Fiat justitia , ruat ...
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Wilfred Whitten. Another correspondent wrote : - " I have had an argument ... written , and the other thinks the word ' who ' should be employed instead of ' whom ... reader . It is a standing wonder that people are interested in coinci ...
Wilfred Whitten. Another correspondent wrote : - " I have had an argument ... written , and the other thinks the word ' who ' should be employed instead of ' whom ... reader . It is a standing wonder that people are interested in coinci ...
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... writer , it is an invaluable desk - book . $ 3 " FARTHER " AND " FURTHER . " " 6 An author wrote : - In a book of mine which is now in the press , the pub- lisher's proof - reader - obviously a very capable person - in several places ...
... writer , it is an invaluable desk - book . $ 3 " FARTHER " AND " FURTHER . " " 6 An author wrote : - In a book of mine which is now in the press , the pub- lisher's proof - reader - obviously a very capable person - in several places ...
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Page 144 - But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave, On the Lake of Galilee.
Page 138 - I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
Page 163 - My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!
Page 26 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Page 86 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 171 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 140 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Page 30 - Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn, Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. [Him have we seen the greenwood side along While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun...
Page 171 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
Page 29 - In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace. No more, with reason and thyself at strife, Give anxious cares and endless wishes room; But through the cool sequester'd vale of life Pursue the silent tenor of thy doom.