The Children's Miscellany: In which is Included The History of Little Jack, by Thomas Day, EsqJohn Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1797 - 325 páginas |
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... received in battle , when he was fighting against the enemies of his country . This poor man , when he found himfelf thus difabled , built a little hut of clay , which he covered with turf dug from the com- mon . He had a little bit of ...
... received in battle , when he was fighting against the enemies of his country . This poor man , when he found himfelf thus difabled , built a little hut of clay , which he covered with turf dug from the com- mon . He had a little bit of ...
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... received . " What have you been doing now , Jack ? " said the old man . " Only fighting with Dick the butcher . " " You rogue , faid the old man , he is twice as big as you are , and the best fighter in all the country . " " What does ...
... received . " What have you been doing now , Jack ? " said the old man . " Only fighting with Dick the butcher . " " You rogue , faid the old man , he is twice as big as you are , and the best fighter in all the country . " " What does ...
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... received immediate di- rections to her house . Jack was now in a new fphere of life . His face was washed , his hair combed , he was cloth- ed afresh , and appeared a very smart active lad . His business was to help in the stable , to ...
... received immediate di- rections to her house . Jack was now in a new fphere of life . His face was washed , his hair combed , he was cloth- ed afresh , and appeared a very smart active lad . His business was to help in the stable , to ...
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... received very confiderable advantage for his own improvement . He had now a little money , and he laid fome of it out to purchase pens , and paper , and a flate , with which at night he used to imitate every thing he had heard and seen ...
... received very confiderable advantage for his own improvement . He had now a little money , and he laid fome of it out to purchase pens , and paper , and a flate , with which at night he used to imitate every thing he had heard and seen ...
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... received fome very mortifying ufage from this young gen- tleman , that as he was walking along the road , he met with a showman , who was returning from a neighbouring fair with fome wild beasts in a cart . Among the reft was a middle ...
... received fome very mortifying ufage from this young gen- tleman , that as he was walking along the road , he met with a showman , who was returning from a neighbouring fair with fome wild beasts in a cart . Among the reft was a middle ...
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Página 193 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 193 - Well done! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he? His fame soon spread around; He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
Página 194 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Página 202 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Página 202 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 196 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
Página 195 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 192 - So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Página 198 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 201 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.