A History of the Gipsies: With Specimens of the Gipsy LanguageWalter Simson, James Simson M. Doolady, 1866 - 575 páginas |
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A History of the Gipsies: With Specimens of the Gipsy Language Walter Simson,James Simson Vista completa - 1865 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 16 - And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste ; for they said, "We be all dead men.
Página 504 - Poetry, appeared to be compositions infinitely superior to the allegory of the preaching tinker. We live in better times ; and we are not afraid to say, that, though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree. One of those minds produced the Paradise Lost, the other the Pilgrim's Progress.
Página 523 - But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Página 505 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Página 475 - But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you ; and killed the Prince of Life, whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses...
Página 504 - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Página 303 - GUDE Lord Scroope's to the hunting gane, He has ridden o'er moss and muir ; And he has grippit Hughie the Graeme, For stealing o' the Bishop's mare. " Now, good Lord Scroope, this may not be ! Here hangs a broadsword by my side ; And if that thou canst conquer me, The matter it may soon be tryed.
Página 309 - What is his calling? said Judge Hale. Answer. Then some of the company that stood by said, A tinker, my lord. Worn. Yes, said she, and because he is a tinker, and a poor man, therefore he is despised, and cannot have justice.
Página 265 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Página 21 - Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman snaIl not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.