Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and WisdomIvison, 1880 - Всего страниц: 302 |
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... character of the mind and abilities of him who speaks them ; and when they are first and natural , though plain and unaffected they carry charms that are superior to the beauty of the fairest face , while the improper use of them shows ...
... character of the mind and abilities of him who speaks them ; and when they are first and natural , though plain and unaffected they carry charms that are superior to the beauty of the fairest face , while the improper use of them shows ...
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... characters , notes and dashes . " Note , too , that from spell we get our ' GOSPEL , ' that is God's spell - God's word . To conclude all of which , take the following exqui- site passage from that most etherial " Undine " of De la ...
... characters , notes and dashes . " Note , too , that from spell we get our ' GOSPEL , ' that is God's spell - God's word . To conclude all of which , take the following exqui- site passage from that most etherial " Undine " of De la ...
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... characters -these runes - are all that remain to tell the chro- nology of Empires perished - their ' Cloud - capp'd towers , their gorgeo's palaces , Their solemn temples " all evanished , and these brief articulations alone left to ...
... characters -these runes - are all that remain to tell the chro- nology of Empires perished - their ' Cloud - capp'd towers , their gorgeo's palaces , Their solemn temples " all evanished , and these brief articulations alone left to ...
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... character given of a certain Roman Matron : " Domum mansit - lanam fecit " " -- so quaintly and forcibly rendered by Gawain Douglas " She keepit close the hous , and birlit at the quhele ! " And more of this wondrous Archæology of Words ...
... character given of a certain Roman Matron : " Domum mansit - lanam fecit " " -- so quaintly and forcibly rendered by Gawain Douglas " She keepit close the hous , and birlit at the quhele ! " And more of this wondrous Archæology of Words ...
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... character in his old , heroic lineaments : " Inde lupae fulvo nutricis tegmine laetus Romulus excipiet gentem , " etc. * ' Weal ' is now only used as a noun , " The weal or woe in thee is placed . ” — Milton . Yet in Scotland they still ...
... character in his old , heroic lineaments : " Inde lupae fulvo nutricis tegmine laetus Romulus excipiet gentem , " etc. * ' Weal ' is now only used as a noun , " The weal or woe in thee is placed . ” — Milton . Yet in Scotland they still ...
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