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" Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier. "
A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles ... - Page 156
by Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 306 pages
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...spermaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, (so it was) • This viilanons saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, . , Which man}' a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 pages
...parinaoeti, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was. That villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. This bald...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 11

1818 - 594 pages
...Shakspeare, he thought That it was great pity, so it was That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed So cowardly. 'III. Franklin's name stands deservedly high as a man of science. His " grand results," as Davy calls...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 pages
...Was parmacity, for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was> This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier. First Part,...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...spermaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pily, (so it was) This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. This bald...
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Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 348 pages
...parmaceti,6 for an inward bruise;7 And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and, but for these vile guns,s From the following passage in The Northern Lass,...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...spermaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, (so it was) This villanous saltpetre, should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth. Which many a good tall fclUw had destroyed So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier....
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 456 pages
...parmaceti 8 , for an inward bruise 9 ; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd should seem, however, that a popinjay and a parrot were distinct birds: Again, in Nash's...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 16

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 460 pages
...seldom skin-deepe ; for an inward bruise lambstones and sweetebreads are his only spermaceti" BOWLE. 5 So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns ', He would himself have been a soldier. This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord, I answer'd indirectly, as I said ; And, I beseech you, let...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 530 pages
...quoted by Mr. Steevens from Romeo and Juliet, but also in King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Sc. III. ; " and, but for these vile guns, " He would himself have been a soldier." With respect to the former part of this note, though Mr. Ritson has told us that " enshield is CERTAINLY...
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