The Table Book..., Volume 1W. Tegg, 1827 - 870 pagine |
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... young and bloom ng flowers , Falling in fragrant showers , Shone on her neck , and on her bosom smil'd Some on her mantle hung , Some in her locks were strung , Like orient gems in rings of flaming gold ; Some , in a spicy cloud ...
... young and bloom ng flowers , Falling in fragrant showers , Shone on her neck , and on her bosom smil'd Some on her mantle hung , Some in her locks were strung , Like orient gems in rings of flaming gold ; Some , in a spicy cloud ...
Pagina 8
... young man , brought up in the city of London to the business of an undertaker , went to Jamaica to better his condition . Business flourished , and he wrote to his father in Bishopsgate - street to send him , with a quantity of black ...
... young man , brought up in the city of London to the business of an undertaker , went to Jamaica to better his condition . Business flourished , and he wrote to his father in Bishopsgate - street to send him , with a quantity of black ...
Pagina 10
... young children , should in- duce parish officers , and others , in popu- tous neighbourhoods , to adopt a plan so ... young people , when they could swear the old ones out of their lives , and get a woman hanged or burnt only for being a ...
... young children , should in- duce parish officers , and others , in popu- tous neighbourhoods , to adopt a plan so ... young people , when they could swear the old ones out of their lives , and get a woman hanged or burnt only for being a ...
Pagina 17
... young male deer , in order to enter the young hounds , and to stoop them to their right game , and to get the older ones in wind and exercise , preparatory to the com . mencement of the buck - killing season . This practice was termed ...
... young male deer , in order to enter the young hounds , and to stoop them to their right game , and to get the older ones in wind and exercise , preparatory to the com . mencement of the buck - killing season . This practice was termed ...
Pagina 25
... young- est son for the situation to which I aspired . I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra , given to me by a young woman , who had found it in a lodging - house . I considered it as a ...
... young- est son for the situation to which I aspired . I possessed at this time but one book in the world : it was a treatise on algebra , given to me by a young woman , who had found it in a lodging - house . I considered it as a ...
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Pagina 126 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Pagina 472 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear: believe me for mine honor; and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Pagina 405 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Pagina 398 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Pagina 25 - ... Lord Orford), were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach as a crown and sceptre. There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great extent.
Pagina 8 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Pagina 496 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Pagina 625 - ... for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.
Pagina 439 - GARRICK. fO a homeless man, who has no spot on this wide world which he can truly call his own, there is a momentary feeling of something like independence and territorial consequence, when, after a weary day's travel, he kicks off his boots, thrusts his feet into slippers, and stretches himself before an inn fire.
Pagina 405 - Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk...