The Children's Miscellany: In which is Included The History of Little Jack, by Thomas Day, EsqJohn Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1797 - 325 من الصفحات |
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... fome progrefs in the execution of this fcheme , they were compelled , by accidents which it is unneceffary to relate , to aban don their defign . But , though the mo- defty of the authors would rather have led them to suppress what they ...
... fome progrefs in the execution of this fcheme , they were compelled , by accidents which it is unneceffary to relate , to aban don their defign . But , though the mo- defty of the authors would rather have led them to suppress what they ...
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... fome time longer the taking mcafures to be delivered . from its care . Who knows , faid he , but Provi- dence , which has preserved this child in fo won- derful a manner , may have destined it to some- thing equally wonderful in his ...
... fome time longer the taking mcafures to be delivered . from its care . Who knows , faid he , but Provi- dence , which has preserved this child in fo won- derful a manner , may have destined it to some- thing equally wonderful in his ...
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... fome difficulty ; for he had neither printed book , nor pens , nor paper in his cabin .. Industry , however , enables us to overcome dif- ficulties ; in the fummer time , as the old man fat before his cottage , he would draw letters in ...
... fome difficulty ; for he had neither printed book , nor pens , nor paper in his cabin .. Industry , however , enables us to overcome dif- ficulties ; in the fummer time , as the old man fat before his cottage , he would draw letters in ...
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... fome barn or out - house to creep into for the reft of the night . While he was thus wandering about , he faw at fome distance a great light , which feemed to come from fome prodigi- ous fire . Jack did not know what this could be ; but ...
... fome barn or out - house to creep into for the reft of the night . While he was thus wandering about , he faw at fome distance a great light , which feemed to come from fome prodigi- ous fire . Jack did not know what this could be ; but ...
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... fome broken victuals for his fupper . After this , he laid himself down in a corner , and slept without disturbance till morning . He was scarcely awake the next day , when the master of the forge came in to overlook his men , who ...
... fome broken victuals for his fupper . After this , he laid himself down in a corner , and slept without disturbance till morning . He was scarcely awake the next day , when the master of the forge came in to overlook his men , who ...
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الصفحة 193 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
الصفحة 193 - Well done! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he? His fame soon spread around; He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
الصفحة 194 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
الصفحة 202 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
الصفحة 202 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
الصفحة 196 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
الصفحة 195 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
الصفحة 192 - So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
الصفحة 198 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
الصفحة 201 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.