I. 10. return to footnote mark Footnote 2: A famous duelling place under elm trees, in a meadow half surrounded by the Thames.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
return to footnote mark Footnote 2: that return Footnote 3: Atique return Footnote 4: Dr Richard Bentley return Footnote 5: Mile return Contents Contents p.6
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
The same is told also of the younger Stylites, where the incident of concealing the torture is added, Acta , i., 265. return to footnote mark Footnote 2:
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my friend’s arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
X. Footnote 1: Part I., canto i., v. 69, 70. return to footnote mark Footnote 2: "it is", and in first reprint.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
return to footnote mark Footnote 2: This friend was Stephen, son of Edmund Clay, haberdasher.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
Nothing but life can exceed the motions of the heads, hands, eyes, &c., of these figures, &c.' return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Hockley-in-the-Hole, memorable for its Bear Garden, was on the outskirt of the town, by Clerkenwell Green; with Mutton Lane on the East and the fields on the West.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
For return to footnote mark Footnote 2: wonderfully natural return Footnote 3: genuine return Footnote 4: goodnatured Reader return Footnote 5: what a Genius the Author was Master of return Footnote 6: Humanity return Footnote 7: that return Footnote 8: Addison had incurred much ridicule from the bad taste of the time by his papers upon Chevy Chase, though he had gone some way to meet it by endeavouring to satisfy the Dennises of 'that polite age,' with authorities from Virgil.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Rascals return Footnote 3: good return Contents Contents p.5 No. 151 Thursday, August 23, 1711 Steele Maximas Virtutes jacere omnes necesse est Voluptate dominante.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
I. return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Theory of the Earth , Book III., ch.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
return to footnote mark Footnote 2: The Beef-Steak Club, founded in Queen Anne's time, first of its name, took a gridiron for badge, and had cheery Dick Estcourt the actor for its providore.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
"Don't rush too fast, Miss Fox.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Being found in a condition of comparative purity, and needing but little refinement, they were, for that reason, the first metals fashioned to meet the wants of man.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn
return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Thomas Clayton (see note on p. 72) had set Dryden's Alexander's Feast to music at the request of Steele and John Hughes; but its performance at his house in York Buildings was a failure.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir
L. Footnote 1: These are what Aristotle means by the Fable and &c. return to footnote mark Footnote 2: Offspring return Footnote 3: Son of Aurora who has return Footnote 4: that his Poem return Footnote 5: It was especially for the novelty of Paradise Lost , that John Dennis had in 1704 exalted Milton above the ancients.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir
return to footnote mark Footnote 2: To this number of the Spectator is appended the first advertisement of Pope's Essay on Criticism .
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir
Calhoun was ready to fight Mexico for the possession of Texas, but he did not want to fight England for possession of Oregon.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman
Then I felt for the first time how heavy I was in the presence of those graceful creatures, and my weight seemed to sink down into a root that fastened my feet to the ground.
— from The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories by Lydia Maria Child
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