Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries ...H.C. Carey & I Lea, 1825 |
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... Royal Literary Society Anglo - Gallic Song . - The Exposition at the Louvre Second Letter to the New Royal Literary Society A Lamentation upon the Decline of Barbers The Old White Hat - and the Old Grey Mare Memnon's Head Last Year The ...
... Royal Literary Society Anglo - Gallic Song . - The Exposition at the Louvre Second Letter to the New Royal Literary Society A Lamentation upon the Decline of Barbers The Old White Hat - and the Old Grey Mare Memnon's Head Last Year The ...
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... royal jester , Had in his train a gross buffoon , Who used to pester The court with tricks inopportune , Venting on the highest folks his Scurvy pleasantries and hoaxes . It needs some sense to play the fool , Which wholesome rule ...
... royal jester , Had in his train a gross buffoon , Who used to pester The court with tricks inopportune , Venting on the highest folks his Scurvy pleasantries and hoaxes . It needs some sense to play the fool , Which wholesome rule ...
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... royal will be done - ' tis just , " Replied the wretch , and kiss'd the dust ; " Since , my last moments to assuage , Your majesty's humane decree Has deign'd to leave the choice to me , I'll die , so please you , of old age ! " THE ...
... royal will be done - ' tis just , " Replied the wretch , and kiss'd the dust ; " Since , my last moments to assuage , Your majesty's humane decree Has deign'd to leave the choice to me , I'll die , so please you , of old age ! " THE ...
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... Royal had stopped to admire the beautiful jet - d'eau in its centre , on which the sun - beams were falling so as to produce a small rainbow , when I was ac- costed by my old friend Major E- , of the Fu- sileers . After the first ...
... Royal had stopped to admire the beautiful jet - d'eau in its centre , on which the sun - beams were falling so as to produce a small rainbow , when I was ac- costed by my old friend Major E- , of the Fu- sileers . After the first ...
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... royal Henry to his impa- tient heir , " Go , bid the merry bells ring to thine ear , That thou art crowned , not that I am dead . " Could the bells of even this sequestered village church , said I to myself , recall to us with their ...
... royal Henry to his impa- tient heir , " Go , bid the merry bells ring to thine ear , That thou art crowned , not that I am dead . " Could the bells of even this sequestered village church , said I to myself , recall to us with their ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Bampfylde Moore Carew beau ideal beauty become bells blue-stocking body called Carbonari catachresis Chilvers chimæra church colour court cried Croak Cuckoo death delight Dick Dieppe dinner earth ejaculated evanescent exclaimed eyes face fear feel fortune France French gazing give Hail to thee hand happy head heart heaven honour human instantly iron tongues jokes king lady laugh less letter literary live look Lord Louis the Fourteenth marriage MARSHAL SOULT means ment mind moral morning mouth Nasamones nature neighbour never night object obolus observed occasioned once painting party passed perfect perhaps perpetual poor possession present racter reader recollect replied round royal Smart society soul spirit street talent taste thing thou thought Timbuctoo tion tongue Versailles white hat whole wife women words writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 73 - Ring out, ye crystal Spheres! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Seite 295 - Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Seite 346 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts: A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Seite 103 - To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian polities which never can be drawn into use, will not mend our condition; but to ordain wisely as in this world of evil, in the midst whereof God hath placed us unavoidably.
Seite 294 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Seite 154 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Seite 223 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Seite 168 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 306 - ... their ferrets behind them. ' One of their honours this night spoke, and in the name of God asked what it was, and why it disturbed them so? No answer was given to this; but the noise ceased for a while, when the spirit came again, and as they all agreed, brought with it seven devils worse than itself.