Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, Band 25F. Leslie Publishing Company, 1879 |
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Seite 398 - Quixotic hazards run ; A lass annoys with trivial toys, Opposing man for fun. " A jovial swain may rack his brain, And tax his fancy's might ; To quiz is vain, for 'tis most plain That what I say is right.
Seite 23 - Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings; That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Seite 178 - ... he had sent him out to change a guinea for him, and that he had only come back since he (the gentleman) was in the house, saying, he could not get change ; and that Jennings being in liquor, he had sent him to bed, resolving to discharge him in the morning.
Seite 438 - My father's attention was called to the dream only from its frequent recurrence ; but when he found himself seated at his desk on the misty morning, and beheld the identical person whom he had seen in his dream, in the blue coat, riding on a gray horse, he felt surprised, and, opening the window, waited the man's approach.
Seite 223 - That cast an awful look below ; Whose ragged walls the ivy creeps, And with her arms from falling keeps : So both a safety from the wind On mutual dependence find. Tis now the raven's bleak abode ; Tis now the apartment of the toad ; And there the fox securely feeds, And there the poisonous adder breeds, Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds ; While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls.
Seite 178 - ... his friends advised him to plead guilty on his trial, and to throw himself on the mercy of the court. This advice he rejected, and, when arraigned, pleaded not guilty.
Seite 183 - ... it is to inquire into all the circumstances of accidental deaths, it appeared that the ball which was found lodged in the head of the deceased could never, from its size, have been fired out of the pistol which lay by him ; thus it was clear that he had been murdered; nor were they long in deciding who was the murderer. A girl, of about sixteen, the niece of the deceased, had been brought up by him, and he had been always supposed to have intended to leave 'her his effects, which were something...
Seite 178 - ... kitchen relating it) the particulars of the robbery, and that the guineas, which the highwayman had taken were all marked : that, however, a few minutes previously to his having heard this, he had unluckily paid away the guinea which Jennings returned him, to a man who lived some distance off, and was gone...
Seite 178 - ... marked guineas would soon become publicly known, detection, disgrace, and ruin appeared inevitable. Turning in his mind every way to escape, the thought of accusing and sacrificing poor Jennings at last struck him ; and thus to his other crimes he added that of the murder of an innocent man.
Seite 78 - I thought of questions very hard For boys to answer right : "How did you tear those pantaloons?" " My son ! what caused the fight?" " Who left the gate ajar last night?