Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated,... The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 1021867Full view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity. This ia the ware wherein consists my wealth : And thus methinks should men of judgment frame Their... | |
| Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 412 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz. grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a carat2 of this quality, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity... | |
| Theology - 1856 - 924 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds And seld-scen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransome great kings from captivity.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topas, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransome great kings from captivity.... | |
| ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 pages
...value of precious stones. Asoné of them, indifferently rated, And of a ctirrect of this quantity, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity. JrK of Malla, O.'PI., viii, 307. But doth his caract, and just standard keep In all the prov'd assays.... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity... | |
| James Hamilton Fyfe - 1864 - 366 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, Might serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity." Diamonds were first brought... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1864 - 340 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, Might serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity." MARLOWE. " Sparkling diamonds"... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1864 - 350 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, Might serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity." . MARLOWE. " Sparkling diamonds"... | |
| Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 476 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen t costly stones of so great price, As one of them, indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity.... | |
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