A Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart: With Etchings from the Whole Collection : Including the Pictures in His Gallery at Tabley House, Cheshire : Executed by Permission of the Proprietor : and Accompanied with Historical and Biographical Notices

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الصفحة 31 - And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
الصفحة 19 - Good-fellow : are you not he, That fright the maidens of the villagery ; Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn ; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ? Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck : Are not you he ? Puck.
الصفحة 40 - His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that...
الصفحة 31 - Heaven!' she ran and cried; When Heaven was named, they loosed their hold again; Then sprung she forth, they follow'd her amain. Not far behind, a knight of swarthy face, High on a coal-black steed...
الصفحة 19 - As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far...
الصفحة 18 - Till now grown wanton, and devoid of fear, Not knowing that she prest the thunderer, She plac'd herself upon his back, and rode O'er fields and meadows, seated on the god. He gently march'd along, and by degrees Left the dry meadow, and approach'd the seas; Where now he dips his hoofs and wets his thighs, Now plunges in, and carries off the prize.
الصفحة 24 - The talents, which nature bestowed on the fair Emma, led her to delight in the two kindred arts of Music, and Painting. In the first she acquired great practical ability ; for the second she had exquisite taste, and such expressive powers, as could furnish to an historical painter, an inspiring model for the various characters, either delicate, or sublime, that he might have occasion to represent.
الصفحة 31 - He cheer'd the dogs to follow her who fled, And vow'd revenge on her devoted head. As Theodore was born of noble kind...
الصفحة 27 - With him went Hope in rank, a handsome maid, Of cheerful look, and lovely to behold: In silken samite she was light array'd, And her fair locks...
الصفحة 21 - Warm in her cheek the sultry season glow'd; And, rob'd in loose array, she came to bathe Her fervent limbs in the refreshing stream.

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