All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, Volume 17

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Charles Dickens, 1867
 

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Pagina 60 - His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Pagina 228 - ... love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies,— Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer. True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease; — And true love has an eye for a dinner, And starves beneath shady trees. His wing is the fan of a lady, His foot's an invisible thing, And his arrow is tipped with a jewel,...
Pagina 185 - Alas ! why do I say MY ? Our union would have healed feuds in which blood had been shed by our fathers, it would have joined lands broad and rich, it would have joined at least one heart, and two persons not ill matched in years (she is two years my elder), and — and — and — what has been the result?
Pagina 232 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
Pagina 229 - One backwark look — the last — the last ! One silent tear — for Youth is past! Who goes with Hope and Passion back ? Who comes with me and Memory on...
Pagina 60 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Pagina 331 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Pagina 229 - ... past ! Who goes with Hope and Passion back ? Who comes with me and Memory on ? Oh, lonely looks the downward track — Joy's music hush'd — Hope's roses gone ! To Pleasure and her giddy troop Farewell, without a sigh or tear ! But heart gives way, and spirits droop, To think that Love may leave us here ! Have we no charm when Youth is flown — Midway to death left sad and lone...
Pagina 331 - He flapp'd i' th' air, that from him issued still Three winds, wherewith Cocytus to its depth Was frozen. At six eyes he, wept: the tears Adown three chins distill'd with bloody foam.
Pagina 103 - Charta shall find, that as all your predecessors were at their coronation, so you also were sworn before all the nobility and bishops then present, and in the presence of God, and in His stead to him that anointed you, to maintain the Church lands and the rights belonging to it...

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