The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 |
Dall'interno del libro
Pagina 23
... hour glass oftime , Those fatal mementos of woe , Seem to utter in accents sublime , " We are all of us going to go ! " We are truly and agreeably informed by the " Mirror of the Months , " that " Now periodical works put on their best ...
... hour glass oftime , Those fatal mementos of woe , Seem to utter in accents sublime , " We are all of us going to go ! " We are truly and agreeably informed by the " Mirror of the Months , " that " Now periodical works put on their best ...
Pagina 41
... hour , And sicken o'er the void ; And many darker are behind , On worse than nought employ'd . Oh Vanity ! alas , my heart ! How widely hast thou stray'd And misused every golden gift For better purpose made ! I think on many a once ...
... hour , And sicken o'er the void ; And many darker are behind , On worse than nought employ'd . Oh Vanity ! alas , my heart ! How widely hast thou stray'd And misused every golden gift For better purpose made ! I think on many a once ...
Pagina 61
... hour which she had foretold , in the year 1497 , and the fifty - second of her age . Her sanctity was confirmed by miracles . " We gather this from Alban Butler , who subjoins , by way of note , thus : — " The print of the holy face of ...
... hour which she had foretold , in the year 1497 , and the fifty - second of her age . Her sanctity was confirmed by miracles . " We gather this from Alban Butler , who subjoins , by way of note , thus : — " The print of the holy face of ...
Pagina 99
... hour . It is proper to say , that how- ever gratifying the representation may be to the reader , the friendship that extorted it is not ignorant that scarcely a tithe of either the time or space requisite has been afforded Mr ...
... hour . It is proper to say , that how- ever gratifying the representation may be to the reader , the friendship that extorted it is not ignorant that scarcely a tithe of either the time or space requisite has been afforded Mr ...
Pagina 101
... hours before , to embark for the con- tinent . The prince regent , ( since George IV . ) proceeding towards Hatfield on a visit to the marquis of Salisbury , was obliged to return to Carlton - house , after being absent several hours ...
... hours before , to embark for the con- tinent . The prince regent , ( since George IV . ) proceeding towards Hatfield on a visit to the marquis of Salisbury , was obliged to return to Carlton - house , after being absent several hours ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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Brani popolari
Pagina 553 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Pagina 235 - 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 867 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Pagina 1169 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Pagina 99 - And not a voice was idle ; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Pagina 235 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret; Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Pagina 99 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Pagina 889 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied', Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, • Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Pagina 235 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Pagina 951 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.