Dictionary of Idiomatic Phrases...T. Nelson & Company, 1891 - 384 Seiten |
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American Andrews Citizen anything-to Author better BLACK Blackwood's Magazine BRADDON Cæsar called Captain CHRISTIE MURRAY CONWAY dead dear devil DICKENS EDGEWORTH Edinburgh Review ELIOT English eyes fellow fight FLORENCE MARRYAT French gentleman George GEORGE ELIOT girl give HAGGARD hand head heart HENRY WOOD honour horse HOWELLS HUGHES JAMES PAYN John keep King KINGSLEY Lady Latin laugh live London look Lord LYNN LINTON Magazine MARIA EDGEWORTH marriage married MARRYAT matter mean Miss Mistletoe Bough never nom de plume NORRIS nose novelist of-to one-to one's oneself out-to person phrase play poet poor pretty R. L. STEVENSON READE Review round SALA speak STEVENSON talk tell THACKERAY thing thought throw Titmouse to-to took TROLLOPE turn TYTLER up-to WHYTE-MELVILLE wife wind with-to woman Words young
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Seite 148 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Seite 177 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Seite 8 - Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad — a personage less imposing — in the eyes of some perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Seite 93 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate' by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war ; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial Enter a Servant.
Seite 198 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, 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...
Seite 65 - If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Seite 374 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Seite 256 - Be wary then ; best safety lies in fear : Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. Oph. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Seite 157 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Seite 298 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.