Melbourne Punch, المجلد 2

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1856
 

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الصفحة 143 - Rae ! — whatever sort beside You take in lieu, shun spiritual pride | A pride there is of rank — a pride of birth, A pride of learning, and a pride of purse, A London pride — in short, there be on earth A host of prides, some better and some worse ; But of all prides, since Lucifer's attaint, The proudest swells a self-elected Saint.
الصفحة 33 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
الصفحة 29 - Reply not to me with a fool-born jest ; Presume not, that I am the thing I was ; For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turned away my former self: So will I those that kept me company.
الصفحة 1 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
الصفحة 89 - HY did my parents send me to the Schools, That I with knowledge might enrich my mind ? Since the Desire to Know first made men fools, And did corrupt the root of all mankind.
الصفحة 171 - Thus did VENICE rise, Thus flourish, till the unwelcome tidings came, That in the TAGUS had arrived a fleet From INDIA, from the region of the Sun, Fragrant with spices — that a way was found, A channel opened, and the golden stream Turned to enrich another. Then she felt Her strength departing...
الصفحة 27 - Ere thus I will out-braved be, One of us two shall die : I know thee well, an earl thou art ; Lord Percy, so am I. But trust me, Percy, pity it were, And great offence to kill Any of these our guiltless men, For they have done no ill. Let thou and I the battle try, And set our men aside, Accurst be he, Earl Percy said, By whom this is denied.
الصفحة 143 - Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To cure the dark and erring mind ; But who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind...
الصفحة 80 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
الصفحة 27 - The grey-goose wing that was thereon In his heart's blood was wet. This fight did last from break of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rang the evening bell The battle scarce was done.

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