The Twentieth Century Retractor, Chess Fantasies, and Letter Problems: Being a Selection of Three Hundred Problems |
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The Twentieth Century Retractor, Chess Fantasies, and Letter Problems: Being ... Edith Elina Helen Baird No preview available - 2018 |
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ALL'S Black K-Q Black Kt Black Kt-B Black P-B Black played last Black retracts British Chess Magazine Bx Kt Cheltenham Examiner direct-mate doth enable Falkirk Herald GENT giving check hath heart K-Kt king Kt Kt Kt-B sq Kt-K Kt-Kt Kt-Q Kt-R KtxB KtxKt KtxP KtxQ KtXR Kx Kt last move LEAR leaving Kt leaving Q Leeds Mercury lord Love's MACB Manchester Weekly MERCH MERRY MIDS night Norwich Mercury P-Kt play and mate previous move problem White Px Kt Q retracts Q-Kt queen QX Kt R-Kt Reading Observer retract his move Retractors retracts his last retracts to Q RICH RX Kt SHREW SONN sweet TEMP thee TROIL TWELF VIII White B-B White BX White Kt retracts White Kt-B White P-Q White played last White to mate White to play wins Yorkshire Weekly Post
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Page 159 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green cornfield did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding ; Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 272 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out • That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 23 - And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage : When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store...
Page 288 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 250 - This carol they began that hour, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, How that a life was but a flower In spring time, &C.
Page 4 - It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 69 - Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow.
Page 26 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 153 - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.