An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction: Including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and ConversationJ.R. Osgood, 1872 - 410 من الصفحات |
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... remarkable for his personal beauty , his popularity , and his undutifulness to his father . Absolute , Captain . A character in Sheridan's comedy of " The Rivals ; ' distinguished for his gallant , deter- mined spirit , adroit address ...
... remarkable for his personal beauty , his popularity , and his undutifulness to his father . Absolute , Captain . A character in Sheridan's comedy of " The Rivals ; ' distinguished for his gallant , deter- mined spirit , adroit address ...
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... remarkable for her beauty , conjugal tenderness , spotless purity , and agonizing sufferings . See JAF- FIER . More tears have been shed , probably , for the sorrows of Belvidera and Monimia than for those of Juliet and Desdemona . Sir ...
... remarkable for her beauty , conjugal tenderness , spotless purity , and agonizing sufferings . See JAF- FIER . More tears have been shed , probably , for the sorrows of Belvidera and Monimia than for those of Juliet and Desdemona . Sir ...
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... remarkable adventure . A huge animal of the genus Bison - Bison bonassus had been exhibited in London and other parts of Great Britain a few years before . I must have been the Bonassus himself to have mistaken myself for a genius . Sir ...
... remarkable adventure . A huge animal of the genus Bison - Bison bonassus had been exhibited in London and other parts of Great Britain a few years before . I must have been the Bonassus himself to have mistaken myself for a genius . Sir ...
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... remarkable purity and eloquence of his style . Christian Sen'e - ca . A title some- times given to Joseph Hall ( 1574- 1656 ) , Bishop of Norwich , an eminent divine , highly esteemed as a moralist . Christian Vir'ġil . A title given to ...
... remarkable purity and eloquence of his style . Christian Sen'e - ca . A title some- times given to Joseph Hall ( 1574- 1656 ) , Bishop of Norwich , an eminent divine , highly esteemed as a moralist . Christian Vir'ġil . A title given to ...
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... remarkable for their modern style and pervading purity of taste and grace of language . Daph'ne . [ Gr . △ áøvn . ] ( Gr . & Rom . Myth . ) A beautiful maiden beloved by Apollo , and metamorphosed into a laurel - tree while attempting ...
... remarkable for their modern style and pervading purity of taste and grace of language . Daph'ne . [ Gr . △ áøvn . ] ( Gr . & Rom . Myth . ) A beautiful maiden beloved by Apollo , and metamorphosed into a laurel - tree while attempting ...
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الصفحة 270 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
الصفحة 152 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
الصفحة 86 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
الصفحة 379 - Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places...
الصفحة 122 - Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
الصفحة 96 - When the morning was up, they had him to the top of the house, and bid him look south; so he did; and behold, at a great distance he saw a most pleasant mountainous country, beautified with woods, vineyards, fruits of all sorts, flowers also, with springs and fountains, very delectable to behold.
الصفحة 66 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...
الصفحة 391 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
الصفحة 207 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
الصفحة 189 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.