Pribbles and Prabbles: Or, Rambling Reflections on Varied TopicsSkeffington, 1906 - 284 sider |
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Side 15
... of certain strange misprints or grotesque expressions which occurred in them ; and it may seem almost too hackneyed a theme for discussion here . It is pos- sible , however , that some persons have not been PRIBBLES AND PRABBLES 15.
... of certain strange misprints or grotesque expressions which occurred in them ; and it may seem almost too hackneyed a theme for discussion here . It is pos- sible , however , that some persons have not been PRIBBLES AND PRABBLES 15.
Side 19
... seems ludicrous if not positively shocking ; but we must remember that in former times the word ' bug ' meant , not the vulgar insect of that name , but any frightful thing , a terror or the like , as still surviving in the word ...
... seems ludicrous if not positively shocking ; but we must remember that in former times the word ' bug ' meant , not the vulgar insect of that name , but any frightful thing , a terror or the like , as still surviving in the word ...
Side 21
... seems a little far - fetched and improbable ; and the same may be said of that of another investigator who discerns in the phrase some mystic allusion to matters connected with Hindoo mythology ! At the outset of this chapter I spoke of ...
... seems a little far - fetched and improbable ; and the same may be said of that of another investigator who discerns in the phrase some mystic allusion to matters connected with Hindoo mythology ! At the outset of this chapter I spoke of ...
Side 25
... seems to me that a good dictionary should frankly note this fact in each such case . A curious example of uncertainty in consonantal pronunciation is afforded by the word ' pharmaceutical , ' in the case of which some persons hold that ...
... seems to me that a good dictionary should frankly note this fact in each such case . A curious example of uncertainty in consonantal pronunciation is afforded by the word ' pharmaceutical , ' in the case of which some persons hold that ...
Side 26
... seem to have been originally pronounced with the stress on the last syllable , ' Trafalgár ' ; thus , in the Prologue ... seems to have shifted its accent . Milton has it on the first syllable : " Not Babylon , Nor great Alcairo , such ...
... seem to have been originally pronounced with the stress on the last syllable , ' Trafalgár ' ; thus , in the Prologue ... seems to have shifted its accent . Milton has it on the first syllable : " Not Babylon , Nor great Alcairo , such ...
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Side 78 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Side 72 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Side 78 - Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three. To make a new Thermopylae!
Side 87 - Aemilium circa ludum faber unus et ungues Exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos, Infelix operis summa quia ponere totum Nesciet. Hune ego me, si quid componere curem, Non magis esse velim quam naso vivere pravo, Spectandum nigris oculis nigroque capillo.
Side 38 - Si sol splendescat Maria purificante, Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante...
Side 169 - He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice: As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd...
Side 190 - The King, observing with judicious eyes, The state of both his Universities, To one he sends a regiment ; — For why ? That learned body wanted loyalty ; To th' other books he gave, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Side 103 - Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever — unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.
Side 188 - Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell ; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confest.
Side 78 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!