The Metropolitan, Band 50James Cochrane, 1847 |
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... present time , dozed quietly on , without even so much as a marriage or an elopement to enliven it , that had been content to get its news , heretofore , second - hand , from Hereford , by the mouth of Dick Burton , once a mouth , had ...
... present time , dozed quietly on , without even so much as a marriage or an elopement to enliven it , that had been content to get its news , heretofore , second - hand , from Hereford , by the mouth of Dick Burton , once a mouth , had ...
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... present occasion . All this had been settled between Barbara and her ancient lover , several days beforehand , and therefore when Solomon drove up in front of the little green wicket , in a gig duly hired for the purpose , at the hour ...
... present occasion . All this had been settled between Barbara and her ancient lover , several days beforehand , and therefore when Solomon drove up in front of the little green wicket , in a gig duly hired for the purpose , at the hour ...
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... present occasion donned knee breeches and white silk stockings , which , from the shrunken nature of his nether limbs , were almost en- tirely invisible , and were finished off by a pair of flat splay feet ornamented with silver buckles ...
... present occasion donned knee breeches and white silk stockings , which , from the shrunken nature of his nether limbs , were almost en- tirely invisible , and were finished off by a pair of flat splay feet ornamented with silver buckles ...
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... present audacious conduct , you have no right to expect . " " Now , Miss Bab ! " cried Solomon , blushing all over at the stinging tone in which this insult was uttered , " if you mean to say you intend to get down , and leave me and ...
... present audacious conduct , you have no right to expect . " " Now , Miss Bab ! " cried Solomon , blushing all over at the stinging tone in which this insult was uttered , " if you mean to say you intend to get down , and leave me and ...
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... present rage for broad skirts is derived . Penelope , it must be confessed , played her part to admiration : the air of lofty disdain her pinched features had assumed , assorted so well with the pearl necklace round her throat , her ...
... present rage for broad skirts is derived . Penelope , it must be confessed , played her part to admiration : the air of lofty disdain her pinched features had assumed , assorted so well with the pearl necklace round her throat , her ...
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admiration Æsir Alan of Walsingham arms beautiful better Boodle breath bright Cavendish Charles Courtenay child cold companion Count D'Almaviva dark daughter dear Deloraine Dinah Doctor Yellowchops Dōlōrēs earth eyes favour fear feel felt Fenrir Funchal gaze gentle gentleman girl glance governesses hand happy head heard heart Holmgang honour hope hour husband Hutton Jack JACK DALRYMPLE Joseph Linton Kormak Lady Courtenay Leicester Melville Leopold Mozart lips Lisette living look Lycidas Madeline Marmaduke marriage matter Miles Stapleton mind minstrel Mordaunt morning mother Mozart never night noble Noggles once passed Penelope Pestlepolge Pico Ruivo Pilgarlick poor pretty Prose Edda rendered scarcely scene seemed Sir Alan Sir Charles Sir Clarence sister skald smile sorrow soul spirit Steingerda sweet tears tell thee thing Thomas Middleton thou thought truth Vienna voice Walter whilst wife woman words young
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Seite 443 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Seite 160 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Seite 443 - Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn...
Seite 248 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Seite 229 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Seite 448 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Seite 448 - Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. Mine as whom washed from spot of childbed taint, Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint...
Seite 447 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX [TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.] LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen That labour up the hill of heavenly Truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast ; and they that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen, No anger find in thee, but pity and ruth. Thy care is fixed, and zealously attends To fill thy odorous lamp with deeds of light, And hope...
Seite 223 - They solemnly declare that the present Act has no other object than to publish in the face of the whole world their fixed resolution, both in the administration of their respective States and in their political relations with every other Government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that Holy Religion, namely the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace...
Seite 441 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.