The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two AppendicesLippincott, 1880 - 1170 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 277 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Σελίδα 531 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Σελίδα 428 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Σελίδα 572 - Scripture stories from the life of Christ; A chest that came from Venice, and had held The ducal robes of some old ancestor.
Σελίδα 30 - The same, distinguish'd by their sex alone : Hers the mild lustre of the blooming morn, And his the radiance of the risen day. They lov'd : but such their guileless passion was, As in the dawn of time inform'd the heart Of innocence and undissembling truth. 'Twas friendship heighten'd by the mutual wish, Th' enchanting hope, and sympathetic glow, Beam'd from the mutual eye.
Σελίδα 171 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Σελίδα 316 - So they rode till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. Lo, said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of. With that they saw a damsel going upon the lake : What damsel is that ? said Arthur. That is the Lady of the lake...
Σελίδα 405 - And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three. Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came; Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder and flame ; Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her dead and her shame.
Σελίδα 529 - Arthur king, said the damsel, that sword is mine, and if ye will give me a gift when I ask it you, ye shall have it.
Σελίδα 401 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.