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Page 70 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a, hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not !
Page xviii - even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily and saw it whole, The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Page 92 - that I had wings like a dove I For then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness.
Page 115 - My peace we will begin. And, Cains Lucius, Although the victor, we submit to Caesar, And to the Roman empire ; promising To pay our wonted tribute.
Page 70 - (IV. iii.) : What, all my pretty chickens and their dam, At one fell swoop ! A
Page 81 - So the tongue also is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire
Page 62 - The rank is but the guinea-stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
Page 150 - Will undoubtedly supersede atlases now in use among schoolboys and undergraduates. It is well bound and cheap at six shillings, but, better than this, it is
Page 48 - that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears.
Page iii - ANDROMACHE" OF EURIPIDES EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, VOCABULARY, AND APPENDIX, BY GILBERT NORWOOD, BA, FELLOW OF ST.