The Romance of Madame Tussaud'sGeorge H. Doran Company, 1920 - 368 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 266 - The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
الصفحة 189 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
الصفحة 145 - JESUS shall reign where'er the sun Does his successive journeys run ; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
الصفحة 301 - But eastward afar Through Temple Bar, My Lord Tomnoddy directs his car ; Never heeding their squalls, Or their calls, or their bawls, He passes by Waithman's Emporium for shawls, And, merely just catching a glimpse of St. Paul's, Turns down the Old Bailey, Where in front of the gaol, he...
الصفحة 296 - One end he tied around a beam, And then removed his pegs, And, as his legs were off, — of course, He soon was off his legs! And there he hung till he was dead As any nail in town, — For though distress had cut him up, It could not cut him down! A dozen men sat on his corpse, To find out why he died — And they buried Ben in four crossroads. With a stake in his inside!
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الصفحة 301 - tis a fearsome thing to see That pale wan man's mute agony, — The glare of that wild, despairing eye, Now bent on the crowd, now turn'd to the sky As though 'twere scanning, in doubt and in fear, The path of the Spirit's unknown career ; Those pinion'd arms, those hands that ne'er Shall be lifted again, — not even in prayer; That heaving chest!
الصفحة 301 - Sacchi, Antonio, and Master Black-more ; But to see a man swing At the end of a string, With his neck in a noose, will be quite a new thing...
الصفحة 65 - Over his mantel he has a prodigious number of medals, busts, and casts in wax, or plaster of Paris, which are the effigies of the most noted characters in Europe.
الصفحة 301 - twas the last concluding stroke ! And then — my Lord Tomnoddy awoke ! And Tregooze and Sir Carnaby Jenks arose, And Captain M'Fuze, with the black on his nose : And they stared at each other, as much as to say ' Hollo ! Hollo ! Here's a rum Go ! Why, Captain ! — my Lord ! — Here's the devil to pay '. The fellow's been cut down and taken away ! What's to be done ? We've miss'd all the fun !— Why, they'll laugh at and quiz us all over the town, We are all of us done so uncommonly brown...