Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a Fire-side Reacreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Poets and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots, Band 2C. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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Seite 404 - Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand, One took the other briskly by the hand ; ' Hark ye,' said he, ' 'tis an odd story this About the crows ! ' ' I don't know what it is.' Replied his friend. ' No ! I'm surprised at that, Where I come from it is the common chat. But you shall hear — an odd affair, indeed ! And that it happened, they are all agreed, Not to detain you from a thing so strange, A gentleman that...
Seite 472 - And in another isle be folk of foul fashion and shape that have the lip above the mouth so great, that when they sleep in the sun they cover all the face with that lip.
Seite 461 - Bent was his wit alone by quaint device To snare, and sell him for a passing price. So well he wrought, so craftily he spread In the thick foliage green his slender thread, That, when at eve the little songster sought His wonted spray, his heedless foot was caught. "How have I harmed you?" straight he 'gan to cry, "And wherefore would you do me thus to die?
Seite 448 - Coplande s, have me applyed for to translate out of the Frensshe language into our maternal Englysshe tongue, at the exhortacyon of my forsayd mayster, accordynge dyrectly to myn auctor : gladly followynge the trace of my mayster Caxton, begynnynge with small storyes and pamfletes and so to other.
Seite 404 - twas two black crows — not three." Resolved to trace so wondrous an event. Whip, to the third, the virtuoso went; "Sir
Seite 406 - ... puer respondit tacendum esse, neque id dici licere. Mulier fit audiendi cupidior, secretum rei et silentium pueri animum ejus ad inquirendum everberat.
Seite 460 - ... upon the shore ; which done, the boat guided by the Swan left him, and floated down the river.
Seite 475 - A TOUR through the UPPER PROVINCES of HINDOSTAN ; comprising a Period between the Years 1804 and 1814; with Remarks and authentic Anecdotes. To which is annexed, a Guide up the River Ganges. By ED With a Map of the River Ganges. 8vo. 9$. " This volume is full of amusement, and we can recommend it in perfect sincerity, as being at once unpretending and interestmg." — Literary Museum. Works published by. C. and J. Rivington. 4. WILLOUGHBY, or REFORMATION. The Influence of Religious Principles. By...
Seite 461 - A nymph and a swain to Apollo once prayed, The swain had been jilted, the nymph been betrayed: Their intent was to try if his oracle knew E'er a nymph that was chaste, or a swain that was true. Apollo was mute, and had like...
Seite 450 - In an edition, which I have, printed at Rouen in 1521, it makes the 154th chapter. Towards the latter end of the Xllth century, Godfrey of Viterbo, in his Pantheon...