The Table Book, المجلد 1W. Hone, 1827 |
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... took the greatest pains to revive the knowledge of the ancient learning , recommending it every where , and copying out large manuscripts with his own hand ; that two great cities , Paris and Rome , contended which should have the ...
... took the greatest pains to revive the knowledge of the ancient learning , recommending it every where , and copying out large manuscripts with his own hand ; that two great cities , Paris and Rome , contended which should have the ...
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... took for his subject a group of soldiers playing at cards in the corner of a prison . When Rubens saw the picture , he cried out that it was done by Brouwer , whose works he had often seen , and as often admired . Rubens offered six ...
... took for his subject a group of soldiers playing at cards in the corner of a prison . When Rubens saw the picture , he cried out that it was done by Brouwer , whose works he had often seen , and as often admired . Rubens offered six ...
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... took the offer . His friend immediately advertised for sale a number of fashionable punch vases just arrived from England , and sold the jacks , gaining 200 per cent . ! The young undertaker afterwards dis- coursing upon his father's ...
... took the offer . His friend immediately advertised for sale a number of fashionable punch vases just arrived from England , and sold the jacks , gaining 200 per cent . ! The young undertaker afterwards dis- coursing upon his father's ...
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... took place in the face of the whole court . The contest lasted for more than an hour . At length the Spaniard yielded , and the German , Ehberhard , baron de Talbert , having planted his rival in the bag , took it upon his back , and ...
... took place in the face of the whole court . The contest lasted for more than an hour . At length the Spaniard yielded , and the German , Ehberhard , baron de Talbert , having planted his rival in the bag , took it upon his back , and ...
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... took place , and hell was filled by the couple who were excluded by preoccupa- tion from the other places : in this catching , however , there was some difficulty , as , by the regulations of the game , the middle couple were not to ...
... took place , and hell was filled by the couple who were excluded by preoccupa- tion from the other places : in this catching , however , there was some difficulty , as , by the regulations of the game , the middle couple were not to ...
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الصفحة 227 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his...
الصفحة 805 - 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...
الصفحة 227 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
الصفحة 61 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
الصفحة 805 - 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.
الصفحة 793 - And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those calm desires that...
الصفحة 61 - tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ;— He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
الصفحة 521 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
الصفحة 805 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
الصفحة 61 - This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not even critics criticise, that holds Inquisitive attention while I read Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break, What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns?