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Page 462 - Gay, in his Trivia, book ii. 437, thus refers to the decking of churches : " When rosemary and bays, the poet's crown, Are bawl'd in frequent cries through all the town ; Then judge the festival of Christmas near, — Christmas, the joyous period of the year ; Now with bright holly all the temples strow, With laurel green and sacred mistletoe.
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Page 194 - This edition is not known to Ames or Herbert, nor has a second copy of it come to my knowledge, though there is one nearly the same, printed for Toye and Coplande. There is no date...
Page 293 - The Welshman left his hunting, the Scot his fellowship with vermin, the Dane his drinking- party, the Norwegian his raw fish.
Page 127 - Every man should be so much an artist, that he could report in conversation what had befallen him. Yet, in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to reach the quick, and compel the reproduction of themselves in speech. The poet is the person in whom these powers...
Page 67 - The Danish Laws: or, the Code of. Christian the Fifth. Faithfully Translated For the Use of the English Inhabitants of the Danish Settlements in America, London (1756), p.
Page 66 - No other natural or juridical person can be deprived of his property except by competent authority and for a reason of public benefit or social or national interest. The law shall regulate the procedure for expropriations and shall establish the manner and form of payment as well as the authority competent to rule on causes of public utility or social or national interest and the need for expropriation.
Page 426 - De minoribus rebus principes consultant, de maioribus omnes, ita tamen ut ea quoque, quorum penes plebem arbitrium est, apud principes pertractentur. coëunt, nisi quid fortuitum et subitum incidit, certis diebus, cum aut inchoatur luna aut impletur : nam agendis rebus hoc auspicatissimum initium credunt.
Page 128 - Of goddis will or othir casualtee Can I noght say — bot out of my contree, By thair avise that had of me the cure, Be see to pas tuke I myn auenture.
Page 129 - In compliment to him, the seven-line stanza employed in the Kingis Quair—although really Chaucerian —is now known as " the rime royal"; while the poem itself has been criticized as a work " full of simplicity and feeling, and not inferior in poetical merit to any similar production of Chaucer." Nor can we forget how Rossetti in The Kings Tragedy, one of the best of modern ballads, has worked up into weird beauty the sad story of the tragic death of the king, weaving into it many verses of the...