The Table Book, Volume 1W. Hone, 1827 |
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... hundred guineas for it ; the duke would by no means part with it , but presented the painter with a larger sum . Rubens exerted his interest , and obtained the liberty of Brouwer , by becoming his surety , received him into his house ...
... hundred guineas for it ; the duke would by no means part with it , but presented the painter with a larger sum . Rubens exerted his interest , and obtained the liberty of Brouwer , by becoming his surety , received him into his house ...
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... hundred of Cranbourn , Dorsetshire , about 12 miles south - west from Salisbury , and 93 from London . According to the last census , it contains 367 houses and 1823 inhabitants , of whom 104 are returned as being em- ployed in trade ...
... hundred of Cranbourn , Dorsetshire , about 12 miles south - west from Salisbury , and 93 from London . According to the last census , it contains 367 houses and 1823 inhabitants , of whom 104 are returned as being em- ployed in trade ...
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... hundred pounds for prize money , and his wages were consider- able ; yet , as he had not acquired any strict habits of economy , he brought home but a tri- fling sum . The little property yet left was there- fore turned into money ; a ...
... hundred pounds for prize money , and his wages were consider- able ; yet , as he had not acquired any strict habits of economy , he brought home but a tri- fling sum . The little property yet left was there- fore turned into money ; a ...
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... hundred pounds a year as a comptroller of the lottery , and a salary of three hun- dred pounds as paymaster of the band of gentlemen - pensioners . To his friend , Dr. Ireland , the dean of Westminster , who was the depositary of Mr ...
... hundred pounds a year as a comptroller of the lottery , and a salary of three hun- dred pounds as paymaster of the band of gentlemen - pensioners . To his friend , Dr. Ireland , the dean of Westminster , who was the depositary of Mr ...
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... hundred sixty and two & in the fowerteenth year of the raigne of o'r Soueraigne Lord Charles ye Second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith & c . J. POYNTZ . A marginal memorandum ...
... hundred sixty and two & in the fowerteenth year of the raigne of o'r Soueraigne Lord Charles ye Second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith & c . J. POYNTZ . A marginal memorandum ...
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Página 227 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his...
Página 805 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Página 227 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Página 61 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Página 805 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Página 793 - And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those calm desires that...
Página 61 - 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 ;— He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Página 521 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-ty'd curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter...
Página 805 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Página 61 - This folio of four pages, happy work ! Which not even critics criticise, that holds Inquisitive attention while I read Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break, What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns?