The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a Selection of the Most Amusing and Interesting Articles and Anecdotes that Have Appeared in the Magazines, Newspapers, and Other Daily and Periodical Journals, from the Year 1700, to the Present Time, المجلد 2Matthew Iley, and sold, 1820 |
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الصفحة 64
... prisoner ; and at length , when a person was found capable of conversing with the prisoner in his language , a second interpreter was required to render the bad English of this first interpreter in- telligible ; but at the best , the ...
... prisoner ; and at length , when a person was found capable of conversing with the prisoner in his language , a second interpreter was required to render the bad English of this first interpreter in- telligible ; but at the best , the ...
الصفحة 66
... prisoner Pei as his accomplice in the act . Quai Pei and the prisoner Pei were kept in close custody for the night , while Mr. Kearney , the nearest magistrate , was sent for . John Ouseley Kearney , Esq . , a Magistrate , was resident ...
... prisoner Pei as his accomplice in the act . Quai Pei and the prisoner Pei were kept in close custody for the night , while Mr. Kearney , the nearest magistrate , was sent for . John Ouseley Kearney , Esq . , a Magistrate , was resident ...
الصفحة 68
... prisoner , and he was asked whether he wished to put any questions . He did not ask any question , but denied having partici- pated in the murder in any way : he had never confessed it : he was near the place , with his knife and pot ...
... prisoner , and he was asked whether he wished to put any questions . He did not ask any question , but denied having partici- pated in the murder in any way : he had never confessed it : he was near the place , with his knife and pot ...
الصفحة 69
... prisoner , and had urged the prisoner also to confess ; but the prisoner had not confessed any part in the transaction , but always firmly denied having any share in it , or any knowledge of it , until after the murder was perpetrated ...
... prisoner , and had urged the prisoner also to confess ; but the prisoner had not confessed any part in the transaction , but always firmly denied having any share in it , or any knowledge of it , until after the murder was perpetrated ...
الصفحة 70
... prisoner , denies that he ever meant to convey any such acquiescence on the part of the prisoner : he must have been misun- derstood : on the contrary , the prisoner always denied , as he does now , having had any share in the ...
... prisoner , denies that he ever meant to convey any such acquiescence on the part of the prisoner : he must have been misun- derstood : on the contrary , the prisoner always denied , as he does now , having had any share in the ...
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الصفحة 132 - And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now. And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
الصفحة 132 - Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
الصفحة 350 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his...
الصفحة 359 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
الصفحة 266 - The flash of Wit, the bright Intelligence, The beam of Song, the blaze of Eloquence, Set with their Sun, but still have left behind The enduring produce of immortal Mind ; Fruits of a genial morn, and glorious noon, A deathless part of him who died too soon.
الصفحة 133 - Here is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath : But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue that haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away, Spark of that flame perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth.
الصفحة 51 - Is it a fiend that to a stake Of fire his desperate self is tethering ? Or stubborn spirit doomed to yell In solitary ward or cell, Ten thousand miles from all his brethren.
الصفحة 265 - WHEN the last sunshine of expiring day In summer's twilight weeps itself away, Who hath not felt the softness of the hour Sink on the heart, as dew along the flower? With a pure feeling which absorbs and awes While nature makes that melancholy pause, Her breathing moment on the bridge where Time Of light and darkness forms an arch sublime.
الصفحة 352 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
الصفحة 349 - ... that comes from abroad or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...