The Table Book, Volume 1W. Hone, 1827 |
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Página 251
... cheer may con- vert the most dreary time of the year into a season of pleasure ; and association of ideas , that great source of our keenest plea- sures , may attach delightful images to the howling wind of a bleak winter's night , and ...
... cheer may con- vert the most dreary time of the year into a season of pleasure ; and association of ideas , that great source of our keenest plea- sures , may attach delightful images to the howling wind of a bleak winter's night , and ...
Página 255
... cheer , a good fire in winter ; Look in my coal - house , about Midsummer eve , That's full , five or six chaldron new laid up ; Look in my back yard , I shall find a steeple Made up with Kentish faggots , which o'erlooks The water ...
... cheer , a good fire in winter ; Look in my coal - house , about Midsummer eve , That's full , five or six chaldron new laid up ; Look in my back yard , I shall find a steeple Made up with Kentish faggots , which o'erlooks The water ...
Página 293
... cheer of the dinner is not so re- markable as the gear of the guests . No stranger who looked along the board could recognise in their " braws " the individuals whom the day before he had seen in the mill , the field , or the " smiddie ...
... cheer of the dinner is not so re- markable as the gear of the guests . No stranger who looked along the board could recognise in their " braws " the individuals whom the day before he had seen in the mill , the field , or the " smiddie ...
Página 297
... cheer of this meal . When it is concluded , the bride takes leave of the majority of her friends , and accompanied only by her particular intimates and rela- tions , sets off with the bridegroom and his party for her future residence ...
... cheer of this meal . When it is concluded , the bride takes leave of the majority of her friends , and accompanied only by her particular intimates and rela- tions , sets off with the bridegroom and his party for her future residence ...
Página 301
... cheer you , Sir ? why , you were wont To store for others comfort , that by sorrow Were any ways distress'd . Have you all wasted , And spared none to yourself ? 0. For . O Son , Son , Son , See , alas , see where thy brother lies . He ...
... cheer you , Sir ? why , you were wont To store for others comfort , that by sorrow Were any ways distress'd . Have you all wasted , And spared none to yourself ? 0. For . O Son , Son , Son , See , alas , see where thy brother lies . He ...
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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?