A Lift for the LazyPutnam, 1849 - 195 頁 |
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第 7 頁
... applied to that which expresses some- thing in opposition to what is intended , wished , or felt , derives its application from the contrast of humble pro- fession with despotic commands of papal bulls . The word is used in such a sense ...
... applied to that which expresses some- thing in opposition to what is intended , wished , or felt , derives its application from the contrast of humble pro- fession with despotic commands of papal bulls . The word is used in such a sense ...
第 10 頁
... applied when the eyes are watery and the countenance swollen with sottishness , & c . , is a corruption of Magdalen , ( which Sir Thomas More writes Mawdleyne , ) who is depicted with eyes wet and swollen with tears . illow of Hops ...
... applied when the eyes are watery and the countenance swollen with sottishness , & c . , is a corruption of Magdalen , ( which Sir Thomas More writes Mawdleyne , ) who is depicted with eyes wet and swollen with tears . illow of Hops ...
第 16 頁
... applied to mean productions and bad compositions . Evangelists . - Mark and Matthew wrote their Gos- pels in A. D. 44 ; Luke in 55 ; and John in 97 . In 95 , John was thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil at Rome , whence , being taken ...
... applied to mean productions and bad compositions . Evangelists . - Mark and Matthew wrote their Gos- pels in A. D. 44 ; Luke in 55 ; and John in 97 . In 95 , John was thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil at Rome , whence , being taken ...
第 18 頁
... applied to literary composition . Afterwards they wrote with ink on the inner bark of trees , called in Latin , liber ; thus , that word with them came to signify a book , and gives us library , & c . These barks when written upon were ...
... applied to literary composition . Afterwards they wrote with ink on the inner bark of trees , called in Latin , liber ; thus , that word with them came to signify a book , and gives us library , & c . These barks when written upon were ...
第 20 頁
... applied to a well - known class of sea - birds , from their habit of walking on the waves , which they do with the assist- ance of their wings . Charles's Wain . - A name sometimes given by as- tronomical writers to the constellation ...
... applied to a well - known class of sea - birds , from their habit of walking on the waves , which they do with the assist- ance of their wings . Charles's Wain . - A name sometimes given by as- tronomical writers to the constellation ...
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第 138 頁 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
第 41 頁 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
第 138 頁 - ... sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or...
第 140 頁 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
第 79 頁 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
第 72 頁 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
第 141 頁 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
第 139 頁 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
第 154 頁 - Now as I am glad that Sir John Oldcastle is put out, so I am sorry that Sir John Fastolfe is put in, to relieve his memory in this base service, to be the anvil for every dull wit to strike upon. Nor is our comedian excusable, by some alteration of his name, writing him Sir John Falstafe (and making him the property of pleasure for King Henry the Fifth to abuse), seeing the vicinity of sounds intrench on the memory of that worthy knight, and few do heed the inconsiderable difference in spelling of...