Miscellaneous Questions with Answers, Embracing Science, Literature, Arts, & CW. and R. Chambers, 1875 - 209 Seiten |
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Seite 27 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Seite 125 - 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 10 - The ram, the bull, the heavenly twins, And next the crab the lion shines, The virgin and the scales, The scorpion, archer, and sea-goat, The man that holds the watering-pot, And fish with glittering tails.
Seite 128 - Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Seite 118 - An affected style of speaking and writing introduced at the close of the sixteenth century by Lilly, who set the fashion in works entitled Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit, and Euphues and his England, which are replete with absurd jargon and bombast.
Seite 35 - There are many familiar examples of this pressure around us. One of the most common consists in causing a thimble to adhere to the hand by sucking the air from beneath it : the adhesion is the result of the pressure of the atmosphere on the exhausted space on the hand. Another consists in lifting...
Seite 142 - In 10.40, the first patent of the office seems to have been granted. The salary was fixed at £100 per annum, with a tierce of canary; which latter emolument was, under Southey's tenancy of the office, commuted into an annual payment of £27. It used to be the duty of the laureate to write an ode on the birthday of the sovereign, and sometimes on the occasion of a national victory ; but this custom was happily abolished towards the conclusion of the reign of George III.
Seite 167 - Have these various peers equal parliamentary privileges ?— No; English peers, and peers of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom have a seat in the House of Lords. The Scots peers elect sixteen of their number to the House of Lords; and a new election of them takes place every parliament.
Seite 128 - IN yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave ! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise, To deck its poet's sylvan grave ! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp ' shall now be laid ; That he whose heart in sorrow bleeds May love through life the soothing shade. Then maids and youths shall linger here ; And, while its sounds at distance swell, Shall...
Seite 126 - Awake, my ST JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.