An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction: Including Also Familiar Pseudonums, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and ConversationHoughton Mifflin, 1893 - 440 من الصفحات |
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... Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation William Adolphus Wheeler. To RICHARD SOULE This Work is Inscribed AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTIONATE RESPECT . 1 + PREFACE TO NINETEENTH EDITION . THE original work.
... Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation William Adolphus Wheeler. To RICHARD SOULE This Work is Inscribed AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTIONATE RESPECT . 1 + PREFACE TO NINETEENTH EDITION . THE original work.
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Including Also Familiar Pseudonums, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation William Adolphus Wheeler. 1 + PREFACE TO NINETEENTH EDITION . THE original work , now.
Including Also Familiar Pseudonums, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation William Adolphus Wheeler. 1 + PREFACE TO NINETEENTH EDITION . THE original work , now.
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... original work , now freshly offered to the public , was published in 1865 , and has remained since that date the author- ity in the department which it occupies , and the model upon which many books of like character have been ...
... original work , now freshly offered to the public , was published in 1865 , and has remained since that date the author- ity in the department which it occupies , and the model upon which many books of like character have been ...
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... original , and now the poetic , name of Nova Sco- tia , or rather of a tract extending from the fortieth to the forty - sixth degree of north latitude , which was granted , Nov. 8 , 1603 , to De Monts , by Henry IV . of France . The ...
... original , and now the poetic , name of Nova Sco- tia , or rather of a tract extending from the fortieth to the forty - sixth degree of north latitude , which was granted , Nov. 8 , 1603 , to De Monts , by Henry IV . of France . The ...
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... original . He denies its antiquity , regarding it as the ludicrous fancy of a modern author , who , he insists , was ignorant of the prin- ciples of Latin family nomenclature . But Franckenstein says that this asser- tion has been ...
... original . He denies its antiquity , regarding it as the ludicrous fancy of a modern author , who , he insists , was ignorant of the prin- ciples of Latin family nomenclature . But Franckenstein says that this asser- tion has been ...
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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 207 - ... and thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword; and thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights ; and thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
الصفحة 26 - Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns ; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...
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 240 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
الصفحة 379 - City, as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and 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...
الصفحة 332 - French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants.
الصفحة 406 - Last May we made a crown of flowers: we had a merry day; Beneath the hawthorn on the green they made me Queen of May; And we danced about the may-pole and in the hazel copse, Till Charles's Wain came out above the tall white chimney-tops.
الصفحة 214 - Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
الصفحة 193 - successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their ' brethren of England, but the romance of Tom Jones, ' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive ' the Palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of 'the House of Austria.