Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A. Clouston |
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... clothes of the English beggars ? -Chambers Book of Days . HOW TO INSURE LONG LIFE . ARNOLD DE VILLENEUVE , who flourished in the thirteenth century , is said , according to Dr. Mackay , to have left the following receipt for insuring a ...
... clothes of the English beggars ? -Chambers Book of Days . HOW TO INSURE LONG LIFE . ARNOLD DE VILLENEUVE , who flourished in the thirteenth century , is said , according to Dr. Mackay , to have left the following receipt for insuring a ...
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... clothes , and that " the incisions of the physicians , to cut the cord out of his body , were attended with such anguish and pain , that he lay for some time as dead . " After this he determined to pass the whole forty days of Lent in ...
... clothes , and that " the incisions of the physicians , to cut the cord out of his body , were attended with such anguish and pain , that he lay for some time as dead . " After this he determined to pass the whole forty days of Lent in ...
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... cloth , and dyeing ; -the knowledge of dayries , office of malting oates , their excellent uses in a family , of brewing , baking , and all other things belonging to a household . " LORD AND LADY BYRON . WRITING of Lady Byron before ...
... cloth , and dyeing ; -the knowledge of dayries , office of malting oates , their excellent uses in a family , of brewing , baking , and all other things belonging to a household . " LORD AND LADY BYRON . WRITING of Lady Byron before ...
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... clothing them in a beautiful style . Let us strip ourselves of conven- tional language and poetic diction . Let us neglect noble words , scholastic and courtly epithets , and all the pomp of factitious splen- dour , which the classical ...
... clothing them in a beautiful style . Let us strip ourselves of conven- tional language and poetic diction . Let us neglect noble words , scholastic and courtly epithets , and all the pomp of factitious splen- dour , which the classical ...
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... clothes , go to plays and treats ; and by these means get such a habit of idleness , and love of pleasure , that they are uneasy ever after . " CURIOUS TREASONABLE LETTER . THE writer of the following ingenious composition , having been ...
... clothes , go to plays and treats ; and by these means get such a habit of idleness , and love of pleasure , that they are uneasy ever after . " CURIOUS TREASONABLE LETTER . THE writer of the following ingenious composition , having been ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient Ann Hathaway appear Aristotle beautiful Ben Jonson bird breath called Catherine of Valois character charm Cloth gilt Coloured curious death delight doth drink earth Edgar Poe English eyes fair father flowers fool genius give gold grace hand happy hath heart heaven Henry honour Horace Walpole human Joanna Southcott king lady laugh light live London look Lord Lord Byron man's married mind moral morning Nabal nature ne'er never night o'er Pepys person play pleasure poet poetry poor porringers Queen replied rhymes rich Rowland Yorke Saracens Shakspeare sleep song sorrow soul story sweet Talmud tell thee things Thomas Hood thou thought Tom Jones truth unto virtue W. A. Clouston wind wine wise woman word write young youth Zozimus
Passagens conhecidas
Página 195 - Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Página 196 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 128 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 195 - 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 45 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Página 158 - Go, lovely Rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows When I resemble her to thee How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Página 66 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Página 195 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy...
Página 196 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Página 154 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.