Once a Week, Volume 2Eneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1866 |
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Pagina 4
... town , its villa on the banks of the Thames , its French cook , its rare wines , its box at the opera , its brougham , and its pits and vineries . Heavens it was a merry life , if it could but have lasted . Happy would the human but ...
... town , its villa on the banks of the Thames , its French cook , its rare wines , its box at the opera , its brougham , and its pits and vineries . Heavens it was a merry life , if it could but have lasted . Happy would the human but ...
Pagina 5
... towns and vil- lages in England , and then , estimating that each town and village would furnish one cus- tomer , desired an edition of some hundreds of thousands to be struck off . Companies in the first blush of limited lia- bility ...
... towns and vil- lages in England , and then , estimating that each town and village would furnish one cus- tomer , desired an edition of some hundreds of thousands to be struck off . Companies in the first blush of limited lia- bility ...
Pagina 9
... town . But ridiculous figures ( grotesque representations of Gayant , of St. Michael , and the devil ) , and other abuses having crept into the procession , it was sup- pressed in 1770. The present fête of Gayant is quite another affair ...
... town . But ridiculous figures ( grotesque representations of Gayant , of St. Michael , and the devil ) , and other abuses having crept into the procession , it was sup- pressed in 1770. The present fête of Gayant is quite another affair ...
Pagina 11
... town , and per- form a characteristic dance . All the while , the excitement of the people is indescribable . Their enthusiasm knows no bounds as they look on the evolutions of Gayant , which seem all the more grotesque as his special ...
... town , and per- form a characteristic dance . All the while , the excitement of the people is indescribable . Their enthusiasm knows no bounds as they look on the evolutions of Gayant , which seem all the more grotesque as his special ...
Pagina 16
... town , as it was not safe to pro- ceed further without an escort , and Ste . Olive wrote to the Comte de Chavagnac to send one from the royal troops . The day after our arrival the deputy commander came to pay me a visit , and make ...
... town , as it was not safe to pro- ceed further without an escort , and Ste . Olive wrote to the Comte de Chavagnac to send one from the royal troops . The day after our arrival the deputy commander came to pay me a visit , and make ...
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Pagina 97 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now glowed the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus that led The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Pagina 242 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Pagina 160 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Pagina 70 - But when the rising moon begins to climb Its topmost arch, and gently pauses there; When the stars twinkle through the loops of time, And the low night-breeze waves along the air The...
Pagina 377 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Pagina 533 - ... other side is to drive in before him; or to see a duel fought and one slain with two or three thrusts of the...
Pagina 222 - Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy ; And sundry blessings hang about his throne, That speak him full of grace.
Pagina 364 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 105 - The mode of motion changes, but it still continues motion; the motion of the mass is converted into a motion of the atoms of the mass; and these small motions, communicated to the nerves, produce the sensation which we call heat. We moreover know the amount of heat which a given amount of mechanical force can develope.
Pagina 446 - Thou cheerful Bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ! Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom, — all are thine.