The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Volume 10Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1807 |
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... dear element . Efcaped from yonder town , which has * This little piece was haftily sketched out by its author , foon after the ever - memorable battle of Trafalgar , and prefented to the Editor of this work ; but too late to be ...
... dear element . Efcaped from yonder town , which has * This little piece was haftily sketched out by its author , foon after the ever - memorable battle of Trafalgar , and prefented to the Editor of this work ; but too late to be ...
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... dear Frederic . There was not a man in the fleet that did not envy the fall , and , as far as his power extended , emulate the actions of the Commander in Chief . Frederic . This is unquestionable . Our brave com . panions are most ...
... dear Frederic . There was not a man in the fleet that did not envy the fall , and , as far as his power extended , emulate the actions of the Commander in Chief . Frederic . This is unquestionable . Our brave com . panions are most ...
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... dear , you have fo dextrously got rid of Mr. Bush , that I am sure you must have fome defign in it . 2d Gyrfey . Certainly fhe has : no woman . ever wheedles , but for fome finifter purpose . Sufan , I am but a fimple girl . A Gypley ...
... dear , you have fo dextrously got rid of Mr. Bush , that I am sure you must have fome defign in it . 2d Gyrfey . Certainly fhe has : no woman . ever wheedles , but for fome finifter purpose . Sufan , I am but a fimple girl . A Gypley ...
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... dear : Harry will make you the beft of hufbands , and Sir Edward means to give you the pied cow that you are fo fond of Hush ! Enter Conftable , and Servants ! Conftable . I thought how it would be , when they were not under my ...
... dear : Harry will make you the beft of hufbands , and Sir Edward means to give you the pied cow that you are fo fond of Hush ! Enter Conftable , and Servants ! Conftable . I thought how it would be , when they were not under my ...
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... : befides I know there's not one of our officers but what loves a pretty girl too well to blame us ; therefore do you fee , let us take a fpell in the bilboes instead inftead of thefe dear wenches : I am fure we THE GYPSIES . 21.
... : befides I know there's not one of our officers but what loves a pretty girl too well to blame us ; therefore do you fee , let us take a fpell in the bilboes instead inftead of thefe dear wenches : I am fure we THE GYPSIES . 21.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
againſt alfo ANACREON becauſe Bonaparte breaſt British caufe charms confiderable Conftable dear death defire Deputy High Bailiff EPIGRAM ev'ry eyes fafe faid fame feems feen fenfe fent feven fhall fhip fhore fhould figh filver fince fing firſt fmile foldier fome fong foon foul Frederic French ftill fubject fuch fuicide fuppofe fure fweet gentlemen Gypfey heart Heart of oak himſelf honour Houfe houſe Inchcape Rock JAMES PAULL Juftice King ladies laft laſt laugh lefs Lieutenant loft Lord lyre mafter Majefty meaſures Mifs Minifters moft Morning Chronicle Morning Poft moſt mufe muft muſt myſelf ne'er never o'er obferve occafion Oppofition Paull peace perfons pleaſe pleaſure prefent purpoſe reafon refolved refpect rofe ſhall Sir Edward ſtate STUART BOWEN Sufan Taffrel tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou Toby uſe Weathercock WEATHERCOCK.-No whofe wife
Passagens conhecidas
Página 25 - And he fix'd his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing ; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float ; Quoth he, ' My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I'll plague the priest of Aberbrothok.
Página 50 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 361 - ... Earl Percy's sake.' This vow full well the king performed After at Humbledown ; In one day fifty knights were slain, With lords of high renown : And of the rest, of small account, Did many hundreds die ; Thus endeth the hunting of Chevy-Chase, Made by the Earl Percy. God save the king, and bless this land, With plenty, joy, and peace ; And grant, henceforth, that foul debate 'Twixt noblemen may cease...
Página 24 - Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock ; On the waves of the storm it floated and swung, And louder and louder its warning rung. When the rock was hid by the tempest's swell, The mariners heard the warning bell ; And then they knew the perilous rock.
Página 198 - And bear me off unvanquifli'd from the field. If giddy fortune e'er return again, "With all her idle — reftlefs, wanton train, •—Her magic glafs fliou'd falfe ambition hold, Or...
Página 316 - Frederick came up to interrogate him ; but he happened to begin upon him by the second question, and asked him, "How long have you been in my service?" "Twenty-one years," answered the soldier. The king, struck with his youth, which plainly indicated that he had not borne a musket so long as that, said to him, much astonished, "How old are you?
Página 218 - With the vanishing phantoms of love and delight, Abandon my soul like a dream of the night, And leave but a desert behind.
Página 218 - Like a brotherless hermit, the last of its race, All wild in the silence of Nature, it drew, From each wandering sunbeam, a lonely embrace ; For the night-weed and thorn overshadowed the place Where the flower of my forefathers grew.
Página 213 - The man offered him a dollar, and desired him to put it to the next year's account. No, he must get the change, and leave the money on the table until he had got it. The man rode to Alexandria, which is nine miles from Mount Vernon ; and then the general settled the account.
Página 316 - His figure caused him to be immediately accepted ; but he was totally ignorant of the German dialect; and his captain giving him notice that the king would question him in that tongue the first time he should see...