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...e. I must needs acknowledge, that the Greeke and Latine tongues are great ornaments in a gentleman, but they are pnrchased at over-high a rate. Use ... ...I borrow be surveied, and then tell me whether I have made good choice of ornaments to beautifie and set foorth the invention which ever comes from ... ... in my Authors it is cleane contrary: The elegancies, the perfections and ornaments of his manner of speech, make us neglect and lose the longing for... ... and discourses, many of them are verie excellent and enriched with faire ornaments, but he hath too much pleased himselfe in them: for endeavouring... ...mectat grandibus ora. -- VIRG. Æn. xi. 89. Next Æthon horse of warre, all ornaments laid downe, Goes weeping, with great drops bedewes his cheeckes ... ...r excrements and ordure we draw not only dainties to eat, but our richest ornaments and perfumes. This discourse of beautie toucheth only our common ... ...e sight of our Crucifixes and pictures of that pittiful torment, that the ornaments and ceremonious motions in our Churches, that the voyces accomod... ...h their manner of drinkes and drinking and pledging of healths; religious ornaments painted over with bones and dead mens sculs; surplices, holy Wat... ...itie and gloomie canapies of our churches, the eye-pleasing diversitie of ornaments, and orderly order of our ceremonies, and hearing the devout and...

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...ere at Vienna her twentieth birthday occurred, and as she was very fond of ornaments, we all took the opportunity of the splendid jewellers’ shops in ...

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...e purchased and affection have imagined for her. There were trifles too, little ornaments, beautiful tokens of a continual remembrance, that must have ...

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...ly his own mind, and there he shall see many admirable gifts and excellent ornaments, that must needs fill him with wonder and amazement; as reason, u...

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...d to spend whole days on board our vessels, examining the fine clothes and ornaments, and frequently made purchases at a rate which would have made ...

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...ked up at the windows of the Casa Doro, each with its different sculptured ornaments; I saw old palaces rich in marbles, saw all the wonders which a s...

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...om the ground- floor to the entresol. The balustrade, of walnut with brass ornaments and dangerously slight, was pointed out to us as one of the seven... ...oo, for it is in the worst taste, the sharpest tint of bronze with hideous ornaments. The walls are covered with a red flock paper to imitate velvet e... ...ch a clever builder dragged the igno- rant pair,—new inventions, fantastic ornaments, a system for preventing smoky chimneys, another for preventing d... ...n atom of dust left on a glass globe or a marble mantelpiece. The handsome ornaments she had once admired now be- came odious to her. No matter how sh...

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...ould be quiet; ‘did it never occur to you, that you pay for these precious ornaments of society?’ ‘It certainly has occurred to me, ’ said Wisbottle, ... ...entering once, myself—indeed, I’m rather intimate with some of the highest ornaments of that distinguished profession. ’ ‘N-no!’ said Horatio, with a ... ...large din- 153 Charles Dickens ing-room, dismantled of its furniture, and ornaments, presented a strange jumble of flats, flies, wings, lamps, bridge...

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...d squadron of the Royal Roussillon, and made five charges. One of the gold ornaments of my coat was torn away, but I received no wound. During the bat... ... Bastille. Then the grief of Coetlogon knew no bounds: she threw aside all ornaments, and clad herself as meanly as possible; she begged the King to g... ... night, and lost large sums, oftentimes staking her jewels and her various ornaments. She was a woman who loved her- self alone, who wished for everyt... ...e without shame. But the loss and the damage were inestimable in admirable ornaments of all kinds, with which much of the plate of the rich was embel-... ...ompletely dishonoured himself: this Parliament and all saw him clad in the ornaments of the chief office of the robe, presiding over them, effacing th... ...andeur and size which surprised me. Gold, painting, sculpture, the richest ornaments of all kinds, are distributed everywhere 898 Saint-Simon with pr... ...pis, polished, wreathed, and fluted columns, with their capitals and their ornaments of gilded bronze, a row of bal- conies between each altar with li... ...d of magnificence, and contains an immense heap of riches, in pictures, in ornaments, in vases of all kinds, in precious stones, everywhere strewn abo...

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...fragrant and blooming tenderly in quiet shady places; and there are garden-ornaments, as big as brass warming-pans, that are fit to stare the sun itse... ...- cape at the very first chance which fell in her way. Managing women, the ornaments of their sex—women who order ev- erything for everybody, and know...

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...ning; she would cry to-morrow. It was not home. Meanwhile she arranged her ornaments in the room which she had won too easily. 23 Virginia Woolf They... ...he room which she had won too easily. 23 Virginia Woolf They were strange ornaments to bring on a sea voyage— china pugs, tea-sets in miniature, cups...

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...gs of the concave arches were bound together, as it were, with appropriate ornaments, were all in the finest tone of the architecture of the age. Corr... ...s, was now the centre of an encampment, the embroi- dered flags and gilded ornaments of which glittered far and wide, and reflected a thousand rich ti...

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... with every old snag and one limbed cot ton wood and obscure wood pile that ornaments the banks of this river for twelve hundred miles; and more than... ...of steeple, much too diminutive in its proportions, and surmounted by sundry ornaments’ which the unimaginative Scotchman found him self “quite unabl...

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...cept writing some letters, which were dictated to me, and cutting out some ornaments for the Count de Favria, I was almost the absolute master of my t... ...at attracts me; it is a well-preserved complexion, fine hands, elegance of ornaments, an air of delicacy and neatness throughout the whole person; mor... ...hich the able artist has taken ad- vantage; and thereby varied his groves, ornaments, waters, and points of view, and, if I may so speak, multiplied b... ...mself in building and decorating it in the exquisite taste of architectual ornaments which that great painter had formed to himself. The castle has si...

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...e incurred this reproach. She was habited in a plain dark dress, without any ornaments, and her smooth, colourless hair was confined as carefully as th...

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...s, a body of men who, it was easy to see, by the glitter of their arms and ornaments in the sun, and by their orderly and regular mode of advancing—fo...

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...ave lopp’d and hew’d and made thy body bare Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments, Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in, And migh...

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...flowers, in the latter of which occupations he was so successful that a great number of his varieties found a place in the catalogue of Holland. The t...

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...ave talks on the prisons of Siberia, wearing the headdress and pinch- beck ornaments of a Slav bride; the Aesthete, in his white cassock, gave reading... ...ion; setting it to rights, removing everything but the essentials, the few ornaments which, in a way, were part of his life. His writing had by this t... ...aw encumbered the rooms. The servants came and went with armfuls of books, ornaments, articles of clothing. Presley took from his room only a few manu...

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...w himself into other scenes; and the little parsonage soon had the unusual ornaments of tiny children with small spades and wheelbarrows. The father a... ...rish work, but with a refined orderliness reigning over the various little ornaments, and almost betokening femi- nine habitation; and Alick exclaimed... ...th never wished to see again, and that seemed to Rachel to consist of more ornaments than she could ever wear, and more knick- knacks than a captain’s...

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...eauty, health, wisdom, virtue, and such like essential qualities: exterior ornaments should, be looked after when we have made provision for necessary...

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...ncerned,’ said Miss Knag, when the mes- sage had been delivered, with many ornaments of speech; ‘I could spare Miss Nickleby for evermore.’ ‘Oh, indee...

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... On the day previous all things had been made ready: the grand coffins and ornaments brought from France, and the articles necessary for the operation... ...- leon, and the French naval division dressed itself out in all its festal ornaments to receive the imperial coffin under the French flag. The sarcoph...

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...struct its cathedrals, but they are necessarily confined to the limits and ornaments suited to the resources of a branch of the church that, in this c...

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...have, and no rest will allow, There remains for reflection no time; On the ornaments Gothic the wight seizes now, And from point on to point hastes to... ... to be? Foreign coasts will thou visit, and precious merchandise purchase, Ornaments meet for the rich matrons who dwell in the town. Bring me, also, ... ...rice thou didst name! I mean- while was gazing On thy neck which deserv’ d ornaments worn but by queens. Loudly now rose the cry from the ship; then k...

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...s dress was not unlike, But of inferior materials: she Had not so many ornaments to strike, Her hair had silver only, bound to be Her dowr...

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...y with her embarrassment; she did not tor- ment the flowers or the chimney ornaments, nor even her own rings, she stood with her hands folded and her ...

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...rden; being, indeed, a huge portman teau, well stuffed with those outside ornaments, by means of which the fair Honour hoped to gain many conquests, ...

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... be the floors of their houses, or a piece of their money, or one of their ornaments. For the Romans held Britain for four hundred years, and tamed th... ...d to persuade the English to be like themselves—with very few services, no ornaments in the churches, and no bishops; and things seemed to be tending ...

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...includes them; but some of them may , with a little forcing, be placed among ornaments, and others may be made to harmonize with the class of implemen...

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...om’d thus low To dwell, for that the sacristy by me Was rifled of its goodly ornaments, And with the guilt another falsely charged. But that thou mays...

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...ss; it breaks my heart to think of it. There isn’t another thing among the ornaments and decora tions that is comparable to it for beauty and finish....

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...all flowers together. They were but garnishings, child- ish toys, trifling ornaments for ladies’ chimney-shelves. It was towards his cauliflowers and ...

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...ate press for it, the first that had been seen in the country; I cut several ornaments and checks for the bills. We went together to Burlington, where...

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...ngth of his writing.” He speaks in one place of “plainness and vigour, the ornaments of style,” which is rather too paradoxical to be comprehensively,...