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... proceeds another way , And well - dressed figures does display ; His characters are all in flesh , Their hands are fair , their faces fresh ; And from his sweet'ning art derive A better scent than 8 BURNET'S OWN TIMES .
... proceeds another way , And well - dressed figures does display ; His characters are all in flesh , Their hands are fair , their faces fresh ; And from his sweet'ning art derive A better scent than 8 BURNET'S OWN TIMES .
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... face ) , that all men might see his hand burned before his body was touched . - Acts and Monuments , ed . 1839 , vol . viii . p . 90 . Burnet is more circumstantial . When he came to the stake he prayed , and then undressed himself ...
... face ) , that all men might see his hand burned before his body was touched . - Acts and Monuments , ed . 1839 , vol . viii . p . 90 . Burnet is more circumstantial . When he came to the stake he prayed , and then undressed himself ...
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... face of the eater . In the English of the present day , a Sardonic laugh means a derisive , fiendish laugh , full of bitterness and mocking ; stinging with insult and rancor . Lord Byron has hit it off in his portraiture of the Corsair ...
... face of the eater . In the English of the present day , a Sardonic laugh means a derisive , fiendish laugh , full of bitterness and mocking ; stinging with insult and rancor . Lord Byron has hit it off in his portraiture of the Corsair ...
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... face began to strip , and so did two more , that they might be in condition to swim for their lives . This extremely terrify'd the passengers , who , having a cloth or tilt over them , were in no condition to save their lives , so that ...
... face began to strip , and so did two more , that they might be in condition to swim for their lives . This extremely terrify'd the passengers , who , having a cloth or tilt over them , were in no condition to save their lives , so that ...
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... face ? The king alone should form the phantom there , And talk and tremble at the vacant chair . The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd , A.M. London , 1774 . CHRONOGRAMS . In the second paper by Addison on the different species of false ...
... face ? The king alone should form the phantom there , And talk and tremble at the vacant chair . The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd , A.M. London , 1774 . CHRONOGRAMS . In the second paper by Addison on the different species of false ...
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Page 296 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 302 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 296 - Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun ? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife ? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life ? " I would not slight this wondrous world.
Page 160 - The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Page 232 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Page 159 - And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Page 195 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 193 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 194 - IN good King Charles's golden days, When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High Churchman was I, And so I got preferment.
Page 101 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.