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... Writing , Curious Specimen of , Changes , 160 155 Liberia and Sierra Leone , Christmas , 160 193 Liberty , Japanese Idea of , Tree , The , 183 32 Comic Artist , 256 Lind , Jenny , on Singing , 201 66 in Sacred Music , Lions and Lion ...
... Writing , Curious Specimen of , Changes , 160 155 Liberia and Sierra Leone , Christmas , 160 193 Liberty , Japanese Idea of , Tree , The , 183 32 Comic Artist , 256 Lind , Jenny , on Singing , 201 66 in Sacred Music , Lions and Lion ...
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... writer who , though two - hundred years have elapsed since he lived , is still , in some respects , unique in our ... writers as Hobbes , Herrick , Izaak Walton , and the dramatist Shirley , all of whom had been past middle age before ...
... writer who , though two - hundred years have elapsed since he lived , is still , in some respects , unique in our ... writers as Hobbes , Herrick , Izaak Walton , and the dramatist Shirley , all of whom had been past middle age before ...
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... writing new not a word of any publication pro or con , in ones to amuse his leisure in some cottage near his old parish ; Hobbes was abroad , teaching mathematics to Charles II . in his exile , and writing his " Leviathan " and other ...
... writing new not a word of any publication pro or con , in ones to amuse his leisure in some cottage near his old parish ; Hobbes was abroad , teaching mathematics to Charles II . in his exile , and writing his " Leviathan " and other ...
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... writer makes the Parliament in the proceedings the two debaters abuse each other , very much against the King , and ... writing an answer , royal head . Had the pamphlet been published , with the intention of publishing it some time it ...
... writer makes the Parliament in the proceedings the two debaters abuse each other , very much against the King , and ... writing an answer , royal head . Had the pamphlet been published , with the intention of publishing it some time it ...
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... writer who , though two - hundred years have elapsed since he lived , is still , in some respects , unique in our ... writers as Hobbes , Herrick , Izaak more nearly is he reduced to his true and Walton , and the dramatist Shirley , all ...
... writer who , though two - hundred years have elapsed since he lived , is still , in some respects , unique in our ... writers as Hobbes , Herrick , Izaak more nearly is he reduced to his true and Walton , and the dramatist Shirley , all ...
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Page 169 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 169 - Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 101 - THE dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet Regent of the sky!) Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby.
Page 3 - When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 3 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 3 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 110 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 186 - Not learned, save in gracious household ways. Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, !No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who...
Page 32 - Happy are you, Laughing Water, Having such a noble husband ! " From the sky the sun benignant Looked upon them through the branches, Saying to them, " 0 my children, Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine, Rule by love, 0 Hiawatha...
Page 3 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...