Once Upon a Time, Band 2J. Murray, 1854 |
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... painted wheel engage ; Crush'd is thy pride , down falls the shrieking beau , The slabby pavement crystal fragments strew ; Black floods of mire th ' embroider'd coat disgrace , And mud enwraps the honours of his face . " The dangers of ...
... painted wheel engage ; Crush'd is thy pride , down falls the shrieking beau , The slabby pavement crystal fragments strew ; Black floods of mire th ' embroider'd coat disgrace , And mud enwraps the honours of his face . " The dangers of ...
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... painted glass and gloom " -the collector of its pictures , and books , and bijouterie , says of himself , " I am writing , I am building - both works that will outlast the memory of battles and heroes ! * Horace Walpole to the Miss ...
... painted glass and gloom " -the collector of its pictures , and books , and bijouterie , says of himself , " I am writing , I am building - both works that will outlast the memory of battles and heroes ! * Horace Walpole to the Miss ...
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... painted , like Garrick , be- tween the tragic and the comic muse . We turn over the page , and comedy again presents herself , in an attitude that looks very like the hoyden step of her half - sister , Farce : " Jemmy Lumley last week ...
... painted , like Garrick , be- tween the tragic and the comic muse . We turn over the page , and comedy again presents herself , in an attitude that looks very like the hoyden step of her half - sister , Farce : " Jemmy Lumley last week ...
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... painted by the poor artist Muntz , whom he patronised and despised , lounging in a luxurious arm - chair , soft and bright in its silk and embroidery , the window open , through which he oc- casionally looks on the green meadows and the ...
... painted by the poor artist Muntz , whom he patronised and despised , lounging in a luxurious arm - chair , soft and bright in its silk and embroidery , the window open , through which he oc- casionally looks on the green meadows and the ...
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... paint his crimson and azure gods and goddesses upon the ceilings in the state - rooms of Windsor ; and he con- verted the old Gothic windows into hideous ones of the fashion of Versailles . Anne lived a good deal at the castle , but ...
... paint his crimson and azure gods and goddesses upon the ceilings in the state - rooms of Windsor ; and he con- verted the old Gothic windows into hideous ones of the fashion of Versailles . Anne lived a good deal at the castle , but ...
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amongst ancient Bekfudi BISHOP black ditch bouts-rimés bull-bait called Castle century CHARLES cheap Church coach Court Crabbe eggs England Essay ETON MONTEM Fanny Fanny Burney fashion Fcap Fourth Edition French George George's Chapel gone happy heard Hicks Hicks's Hall formerly History Hogarth honour Horace Walpole hundred India-rubber JOHN John's Gate Johnson King labour Lady letter literary lived London look Lord LORD MAHON Memoirs Miss Burney Montem morning never night Notes obsolete painted palace parish passed Plates poet poor Portrait Post 8vo pounds Queen recollect ROBERT SOUTHEY says scene Second Edition Shakspere shilling Silent Woman society Strawberry Hill streets talk taste tell things Third Edition tion town Translated Vathek Vols Voltaire walk wall Walpole to Mann Walpole's WASHINGTON IRVING whist Windsor Woodcuts writing young
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Seite 1 - DAVY'S (SiR HUMPHRY) Consolations in Travel; or, Last Days of a Philosopher. Fifth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. — — Salmonia ; or, Days of Fly Fishing. With some Account of the Habits of Fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Fourth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. DENNIS' (GEORGE) Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; or, the extant Local Remains of Etruscan Art.
Seite 136 - Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents...
Seite 137 - Anon, a Figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go ; He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries Fate and Physic in his eye...
Seite 85 - MDCCLXV. .LHE following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.
Seite 79 - My dear Sir, you don't call Rousseau bad company. Do you really think him a bad man?" JOHNSON. "Sir, if you are talking jestingly of this, I don't talk with you. If you mean to be serious, I think him one of the worst of men; a rascal, who ought to be hunted out of society, as he has been. Three or four nations have expelled him: and it is a shame that he is protected in this country.
Seite 14 - Box'd in a chair, the beau impatient sits, While spouts run clattering o'er the roof by fits, And ever and anon with frightful din The leather sounds ; he trembles from within.
Seite 54 - ... one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between the acts ? We...
Seite 36 - Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own Thunders follow Mars's Drums. Arrest him, Empress ; or you sleep no more — " She heard, and drove him to th
Seite 293 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...