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Page 17 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered 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...
Page 18 - Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.
Page 18 - oh ! gallant stranger, For hapless ADELGITHA'S love. " For he is in a foreign far land Whose arm should 'now have set me free ; And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead, or false to me.
Page 17 - Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began...
Page 17 - Polymetis, or an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the ancient Artists, being an Attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another.
Page 11 - SHAKESPEARE'S Autobiographical Poems, being his Sonnets clearly developed, with his Character, drawn chiefly from his Works, by CA BROWN.
Page 13 - Robin Hood. A COLLECTION OF ALL THE ANCIENT POEMS, SONGS, AND BALLADS now extant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw ; To which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes of his Life, By JOSEPH RITSON.
Page 5 - No matter how we rhyme the words, the music speaks them handy, And where's the fair can't sing the air of "Yankee doodle Dandy"?
Page 11 - Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Reign of Edward I.