Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes. 800 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act ii, Sc. 1. =Gloaming.= Late, late in a gloamin, when all was still, When the fringe was red on the westlin hill, The wood was sere, the moon i' the wane, The reek o' the cot hung over the plain-- Like a little wee cloud in the world its lane; When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, Late, late in the gloamin Kilmeny came hame! 801 JAMES HOGG: _Kilmeny._ =Gloom.= Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. 802 MILTON: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 79. =Glory.= Glory is like a circle in the water, |
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