Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life: Designed as a Manual of General Information, Volume 1The author, 1886 - 372 halaman |
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... Page 1 . 2. Who was the real prisoner of Chillon ? Page 3 . 3. What picture is called the " first picture of the world " ? Page 6 . 4. Why do members of the English Parliament sit with their hats on ? and why does the Lord Chancellor of ...
... Page 1 . 2. Who was the real prisoner of Chillon ? Page 3 . 3. What picture is called the " first picture of the world " ? Page 6 . 4. Why do members of the English Parliament sit with their hats on ? and why does the Lord Chancellor of ...
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... Page 17 . 11. Who found Pliny's doves ? Page 18 .. 12. What is amber , and where is it found ? Page 19 . 13. What queen was compelled to drink out of a cup made from her father's skull ? Page 20 . 14. What poet wrote as his own epitaph ...
... Page 17 . 11. Who found Pliny's doves ? Page 18 .. 12. What is amber , and where is it found ? Page 19 . 13. What queen was compelled to drink out of a cup made from her father's skull ? Page 20 . 14. What poet wrote as his own epitaph ...
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... Page 38 . 27. What is the legend connected with the Strasbourg clock ? Page 38 . 28. Who invented " Greek fire " ? Page 40 . 29. What man of note was carried about and exhibited in an iron cage ? Page 41 . 30. What is the " Eikon ...
... Page 38 . 27. What is the legend connected with the Strasbourg clock ? Page 38 . 28. Who invented " Greek fire " ? Page 40 . 29. What man of note was carried about and exhibited in an iron cage ? Page 41 . 30. What is the " Eikon ...
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... Page 59 . 44. What instance have we of thirteen being a lucky number ? Page 60 . 45. What emperor sat upon his throne for three hun- dred and fifty years ? Page 61 . 46. How has Victor Hugo estimated certain great lit- : erary men ...
... Page 59 . 44. What instance have we of thirteen being a lucky number ? Page 60 . 45. What emperor sat upon his throne for three hun- dred and fifty years ? Page 61 . 46. How has Victor Hugo estimated certain great lit- : erary men ...
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... Page 75 . 57. Who are called the " Spies of the Czar " ? Page 75 . 58. Upon what old custom did Whittier found his beau- tiful poem of " Telling the Bees " ? Page 77 . 59. What Huguenot was exempted from the massacre of St. Bartholomew ...
... Page 75 . 57. Who are called the " Spies of the Czar " ? Page 75 . 58. Upon what old custom did Whittier found his beau- tiful poem of " Telling the Bees " ? Page 77 . 59. What Huguenot was exempted from the massacre of St. Bartholomew ...
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Halaman 164 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Halaman 181 - THE harp that once through TARA'S halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on TARA'S walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more ! n.
Halaman 253 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death And Love can never lose its own...
Halaman 5 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count, I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote...
Halaman 4 - That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake; And for the same his lineal race In darkness found a dwelling-place. We were seven — who now are one, Six in youth, and one in age...
Halaman 3 - To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Halaman 70 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Halaman 15 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor: and this was a testimony in Israel.
Halaman 77 - Trembling, I listened: the summer sun Had the chill of snow; For I knew she was telling the bees of one Gone on the journey we all must go! Then I said to myself, 'My Mary weeps For the dead to-day: Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and the pain of his age away.
Halaman 256 - The outward wayward life we see, The hidden springs we may not know. Nor is it given us to discern What threads the fatal sisters spun, Through what ancestral years has run The sorrow with the woman born...