The Academy, Volume 28

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J. Murray, 1885 - English literature
 

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Page 203 - ... my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o'...
Page 201 - Surveying, Land and Marine. LAND AND MARINE SURVEYING, in Reference to the Preparation of Plans for Roads and Railways ; Canals, Rivers, Towns• Water Supplies: Docks and Harbours.
Page 66 - Nay, but as when one layeth His worn-out robes away, And, taking new ones, sayeth, " These will I wear to-day ! " So putteth by the spirit Lightly its garb of flesh, And passeth to inherit A residence afresh.
Page 26 - When two vowels come together each one is sounded, though the result when spoken quickly is sometimes scarcely to be distinguished from a single sound, as in ai...
Page 201 - Penny to 20$. each, or per cwt., and £20 per ton, of any number of articles consecutively, from i to 470. Any number of cwts., qrs., and Ibs., from i cwt. to 470 cwts. Any number of tons, cwts., qrs., and Ibs., from i to 1,000 tons. By WILLIAM CHADWICK, Public Accountant.
Page 126 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 53 - ... of Letters written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
Page 133 - Je ne suis pas un homme de lettres, je suis un homme du peuple : je suis l'aboutissant de longues files obscures de paysans et de marins. Je jouis de leurs économies de pensée ; je suis reconnaissant à ces pauvres gens qui m'ont procuré, par leur sobriété intellectuelle, de si vives jouissances.
Page 115 - A SHORT ENQUIRY INTO THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL OPINION, from the Reign of the Great Families to the Advent of Democracy.
Page 201 - Oxford. 2s. 6d. ; cloth boards, 3s. 6d. 7. Rome, Outlines of the History of: from the Earliest Period to the Christian Era and the Commencement of the Decline of the Empire. By EDWARD LEVIEN, of Balliol College, Oxford. Map, 2s. 6d. ; cl. bds. 3s. 6d. 9. Chronology of History, Art, Literature, and Progress, from the Creation of the World to the Conclusion of the Franco-German War.

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