Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that Have a Tale to TellHenry Altemus Company, 1898 - 1440 pages |
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Absalom and Achitophel allusion ancient Anglo-Saxon battle bell bird Bishop blood blue brother Cæsar called castle century chap Charles chief Christian Church cock colour corruption court cross crown daughter dead death devil died dragon drink Duke Dutch Earl ears Emperor England English eyes fable Faerie Queene fairy father feet fire France French g hard German giant give gold Golden Greek green hand head heaven Hence Henry Henry IV Henry VIII honour horse Hudibras Italian Jerusalem Delivered John Julius Cæsar King King Arthur knight lady land Latin letter lived London Lord married means mythology one's Orlando Furioso Paradise Lost person phrase poet Pope Prince proverb Queen reign Roman saint Saxon says Scotch Shakespeare ship Sir Walter Scott slain Spanish spirit stone sword tale term thing thou tion wife wine word
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Page 11 - 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.
Page 392 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 166 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Page 126 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 139 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
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Page 200 - ... though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same. They are called Ewaipanoma. They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and that a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders.
Page 586 - ... her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.