The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34 |
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... replied , we have miser- ably blunted the edge of the repartee . These dif- ficulties , however , have been happily overcome by Mr. Joseph Miller and other facetious compilers , whose works are in general circulation , and may be heard ...
... replied , we have miser- ably blunted the edge of the repartee . These dif- ficulties , however , have been happily overcome by Mr. Joseph Miller and other facetious compilers , whose works are in general circulation , and may be heard ...
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... replied the artist ; I paint in the daylight , but I model , as you call it , in the dark . ' 6 Cicero , it is well known , was a great joker , and some of his good sayings have reached us ; it does not appear as if his wit had been of ...
... replied the artist ; I paint in the daylight , but I model , as you call it , in the dark . ' 6 Cicero , it is well known , was a great joker , and some of his good sayings have reached us ; it does not appear as if his wit had been of ...
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... replied the countryman , ' but my father has been here many a time and oft . ' The anecdote of the old soldier is still more to his credit : he solicited the Emperor to defend him in a suit ; Augustus sent his own advocate into court ...
... replied the countryman , ' but my father has been here many a time and oft . ' The anecdote of the old soldier is still more to his credit : he solicited the Emperor to defend him in a suit ; Augustus sent his own advocate into court ...
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... replied Attalus , down they must all come , for they are cruelly in my eye , and I purpose to throw all that hill into wilderness with plantations of pine , where you see the rock and broken ground , which will be a bold and striking ...
... replied Attalus , down they must all come , for they are cruelly in my eye , and I purpose to throw all that hill into wilderness with plantations of pine , where you see the rock and broken ground , which will be a bold and striking ...
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... replied that He was without beginning and without end . ' Being further interrogated , If the actions of men could escape the intelligence of God ? ' he answered , ' No , nor even their thoughts . ' Philemon , the comic poet ...
... replied that He was without beginning and without end . ' Being further interrogated , If the actions of men could escape the intelligence of God ? ' he answered , ' No , nor even their thoughts . ' Philemon , the comic poet ...
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Page 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Page 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Page 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Page 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Page 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 123 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...