Baldwin; or, A miser's heir, by an old bachelor [signed G.H.E.].

Capa

No interior do livro

Páginas seleccionadas

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 72 - Four Knaves in garbs succinct, a trusty band, Caps on their heads, and halberts in their hand; And particoloured troops, a shining train, Draw forth to combat on the velvet plain. The skilful Nymph reviews her force with care: Let Spades be trumps ! she said, and trumps they were.
Página 81 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 81 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Página 244 - The Balance of Comfort, or the Old Maid and the Married Woman, by Mrs. Ross, 4th edition, 3 vols 0 16 0 Mademoiselle de la Fayette, by Madame Genlis, % vols.
Página 195 - YE shepherds, give ear to my lay, And take no more heed of my sheep; They have nothing to do but to stray ; I have nothing to do but to weep. Yet do not my folly reprove ; She was fair — and my passion begun ; She smil'd — and I could not but love ; She is faithless — and I am undone.
Página 149 - ... down my life for the swain That will sing but a song in her praise. When he sings, may the nymphs of the town Come trooping, and listen the while ; Nay, on him let not Phyllida frown ; But I cannot allow her to smile.
Página 244 - Howard Castle, or a Romance from the Mountains, by a North Briton, 5 vols 1...
Página 207 - Though justice ever must prevail, The tear my Kitty sheds is due ; For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, yet so true.
Página 244 - Jessy, or the Rose of Donald's Cottage, by the Author of the Bravo of Bohemia, 4 vols...
Página 61 - What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble...

Informação bibliográfica