All the Year Round, Volume 36

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Chapman and Hall, 1885

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Página 376 - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
Página 298 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Página 21 - Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones ; come, and buy: If so be you ask me where They do grow ? I answer, there Where my Julia's lips do smile ;— There's the land, or cherry-isle ; Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
Página 46 - tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright...
Página 367 - I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols, in which Bess, being remarkably strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party.
Página 364 - Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog, Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey, Nov.
Página 21 - I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers; but alas! this cry, like the song of the nightingale, is not heard above two months. It would therefore be worth while to consider whether the same air might not in some cases be adapted to other words.
Página 366 - Calling upon the poet one day, he opened the door without ceremony, and found him in the double occupation of turning a couplet and teaching a pet dog to sit upon his haunches. At one time he would glance his eye at his desk, and at another shake his finger at the dog to make him retain his position. The last lines on the page were still wet; they form a part of the description of Italy: " By sports like these are all their cares bepuiled, The sports of children satisfy the child.
Página 85 - Some also have wished that the next way to their FATHER'S house were here, that they might be troubled no more with either hills or mountains to go over ; but the way is the way, and there is an end.
Página 366 - You cannot be too careful to watch the first symptoms of incoherence. The first illogical snarl he makes, to St. Luke's with him ! All the dogs here are going mad, if you believe the overseers ; but I protest they seem to me very rational and collected. But nothing is so deceitful as mad people, to those who are not used to them. Try him with hot water : if he won't lick it up it is a sign he does not like it.

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