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
| Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin - English literature - 1893 - 534 pages
...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, This is the ware wherein consists my wealth." • "E. \V." x. 86. I — VOL. X. The wind blows favourably... | |
| Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin - English literature - 1893 - 580 pages
...amethysts, Jacints, 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,... | |
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1893 - 394 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 quality, 30 May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity.... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1894 - 1044 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...of calamity to ransom great kings from captivity." " I delight," says Cardan, " in little instruments of ingenuity, in gems, in vessels, in brass and... | |
| John Addington Symonds - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1895 - 140 pages
...in the "Jew of Malta": Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And...is both daring and successful. The second departs 26 less from the ordinary rhythm, while the four last carry back the period into the usual flow of... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1895 - 156 pages
...rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price As one of them, indiiferently rated, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity. This is the ware wherein consists my wealth : Infinite riches in a little room." This is the very poetry... | |
| William Roscoe Thayer - English drama - 1895 - 622 pages
...amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen1 costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, 30 May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity.... | |
| Calendars - 1895 - 416 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 caract of this quality, May serve in peril of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity.... | |
| Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1896 - 232 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.... | |
| Calvin Patterson - Spellers - 1897 - 204 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...of calamity To ransom great kings from captivity." — Leigh Hunt. Pronounced: "sSf'ir. 2turkoiz'. Acme Library Card Pocket Under Pai. "Ref. Index File"... | |
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