Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest. [With a Portrait.], Band 1;Band 115John Murray, 1851 |
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Seite 358 - Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at them, and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger size, and of a more erudite appearance.
Seite 321 - You talk like a gorgio — which is the same as talking like a fool — were you a Rommany Chal you would talk wiser. Wish to die indeed! A Rommany Chal would wish to live for ever!" ' ' In sickness, Jasper? "There's the sun and stars, brother.
Seite 17 - Written in an easy unaifected style : and the sketches which it gives of European life and manners under an eastern sun must interest all who have friends in India, and who would like to know how they pass their days."— The Theuligian.
Seite 302 - Ay, boy, rounder than Parr; I'll sing you a sing, if you like, which will let you into his character : — " ' Give me the haunch of a buck to eat, and to drink Madeira old, And a gentle wife to rest with, and in my arms to fold, An Arabic book to study, a Norfolk cob to ride, And a house to live in shaded with trees, and near to a river side ; With such good things around me, and blessed with good health withal, Though I should live for a hundred years, for death I would not call.
Seite 209 - Ha ! ha ! — how distinctly do they say, ha ! ha ! An old man draws nigh, he is mounted on a lean pony, and he leads by the bridle one of these animals ; nothing very remarkable about that creature, unless in being smaller than the rest and gentle, which they are not ; he is not of the sightliest look ; he is almost dun, and over one eye a thick film has gathered. But stay ! there is something remarkable about that horse, there is something in his action in which he differs from all the rest : as...
Seite 321 - There's night and day, brother, both sweet things ; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
Seite viii - THE -ZINCALI ; or, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN, with an original Collection of their Songs and Poetry, and a copious Dictionary of their Language, by GEORGE BORROW, late Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Spain, in two volumes.
Seite 329 - There sits the yeoman at the end of his long room, surrounded by his friends : glasses are filled, and a song is the cry, and a song is sung well suited to the place ; it finds an echo in every heart — fists are clenched, arms are waved, and the portraits of the mighty fighting men of yore, Broughton, and Slack, and Ben, which adorn the walls, appear to smile grim approbation, whilst many a manly voice joins in the bold chorus : " Here's a health to old honest John Bull, When he's gone we shan't...
Seite 8 - Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof : thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.
Seite 23 - A most animated and sprightly picture of the state of society at Sierra Leone, the point and cleverness of which is, we apprehend, to be placed to the credit of the talented editor, fully as much as to that of the original writer of the letters.