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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الصفحة 38
... tion he ought to pursue , and saw nothing around him but the dismal prospect of woods and hills and precipices , without a guide or path . Jack now began to be very hungry , but as he had a fowling piece with him , and powder and shot ...
... tion he ought to pursue , and saw nothing around him but the dismal prospect of woods and hills and precipices , without a guide or path . Jack now began to be very hungry , but as he had a fowling piece with him , and powder and shot ...
الصفحة 45
... tion , and fent one of his officers , who understood fomething of the Tartar language , to treat with the general of the enemies . The Tartar chief received the Europeans with great civility , and after having gently reproached them ...
... tion , and fent one of his officers , who understood fomething of the Tartar language , to treat with the general of the enemies . The Tartar chief received the Europeans with great civility , and after having gently reproached them ...
الصفحة 51
... tion , and in return made him a present of a couple of fine horfes , and feveral valuable skins of beafts . Jack arrived without any accident at the English fettlements , and felling his skins and horfes , found himself in poffeffion of ...
... tion , and in return made him a present of a couple of fine horfes , and feveral valuable skins of beafts . Jack arrived without any accident at the English fettlements , and felling his skins and horfes , found himself in poffeffion of ...
الصفحة 52
... tion of all about him . In a few years , his mas- ter was fo thoroughly convinced of his merit , that growing old himself , he took Jack into part- nership , and committed the management of the whole bufinefs to his care . He continued ...
... tion of all about him . In a few years , his mas- ter was fo thoroughly convinced of his merit , that growing old himself , he took Jack into part- nership , and committed the management of the whole bufinefs to his care . He continued ...
الصفحة 54
... tion ; but as it was defigned to fupply what he thought was wanting to give the minds of chil- dren some idea of general hiftory , and as it per- fectly answered the purpose for which he com- pofed it , he has been induced to publish it ...
... tion ; but as it was defigned to fupply what he thought was wanting to give the minds of chil- dren some idea of general hiftory , and as it per- fectly answered the purpose for which he com- pofed it , he has been induced to publish it ...
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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.