Odds and Ends, Pictures of Town, and Mirth and MetreG. Routledge & Company, 1855 |
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... Nature reproduces herself ! Those notes are the same that that thorough English bird piped to Gurth , the swine- herd , as he drove his unsavoury flock to the mast forests in the days of the Normans . And the cuckoo , do you not hear ...
... Nature reproduces herself ! Those notes are the same that that thorough English bird piped to Gurth , the swine- herd , as he drove his unsavoury flock to the mast forests in the days of the Normans . And the cuckoo , do you not hear ...
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... nature works still by her eternal laws . You see that clump of cowslips , just beside the freshly shrouded tree ; those flowers are as old as time itself ( to put aside the theory of the " Vestiges of the Creation " ) . We shall all die ...
... nature works still by her eternal laws . You see that clump of cowslips , just beside the freshly shrouded tree ; those flowers are as old as time itself ( to put aside the theory of the " Vestiges of the Creation " ) . We shall all die ...
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... nature , to observe the coolness with which the old bird stretched out his wing , with a kind of yawning expression , then looked up with a glance , as much as to say , " The honour of rookdom is in my hands , " then turned his ...
... nature , to observe the coolness with which the old bird stretched out his wing , with a kind of yawning expression , then looked up with a glance , as much as to say , " The honour of rookdom is in my hands , " then turned his ...
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... natural ! like the accidental curl so carefully turned over the de- fective eyeball ; -such a harmony , too , in the look of the letters , it seems like one name . The little green blights in the same manner try to escape detection by ...
... natural ! like the accidental curl so carefully turned over the de- fective eyeball ; -such a harmony , too , in the look of the letters , it seems like one name . The little green blights in the same manner try to escape detection by ...
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... nature up- start and cowardly . When in one of its fits , nothing will move it . Diamond and star dust it scorns . There are more ways of killing a dog than drowning him , says the old adage ; and , as I have found , of sharpening a ...
... nature up- start and cowardly . When in one of its fits , nothing will move it . Diamond and star dust it scorns . There are more ways of killing a dog than drowning him , says the old adage ; and , as I have found , of sharpening a ...
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الصفحة 49 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 78 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
الصفحة 96 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
الصفحة 96 - ... a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters that have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
الصفحة 102 - WHEN the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes was first established on its present footing, I accepted with great pleasure the offer of becoming its President.
الصفحة 22 - that there hath been no certain or constant intercourse between the kingdoms of England and Scotland;" and commands "Thomas Witherings, Esq., his Majesty's postmaster of England for foreign parts, to settle a running post or two, to run night and day between Edinburgh and Scotland and the City of London, to go thither and come back in six days.
الصفحة 93 - Bancroft's labors, on his first appearance, has been fully ratified by his countrymen, and that his Colonial History establishes his title to a place among the great historical writers of the age. The reader will find the pages of the present volume filled with matter not less interesting and important than the preceding. He will meet with the same brilliant and daring style, the same picturesque sketches of character and incident, the same acute reasoning, and compass of erudition.
الصفحة 92 - Prescott's works in point of style rank with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson's cadence and Gibbon's brilliancy.
الصفحة 93 - Jesuits, and the means taken to eft'ect the Counter-reformation in Germany, to revive Romanism in France, and to suppress Protestant Principles in the South of Europe. Translated from the last edition of the German by WALTER K.
الصفحة 70 - ... through the great majority of the poets — old Homer himself for one ; — and the best painters have seized, with the same instinct, upon golden tresses. A walk through any gallery of old masters will instantly settle this point. There is not a single female head in the National Gallery — beginning with those glorious