Once a Week, Հատոր 13Eneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans., 1865 |
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Էջ 326 - Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide.
Էջ 237 - If anything had been needed to show how men of letters include actors, on the common principle of the greater including the less, these gentlemen would have furnished it. Mr. Dickens's Bobadil had a spirit in it of intellectual apprehension beyond anything the existing stage has shown . . . and Mr.
Էջ 114 - Newmarket; also in Hyde Park, as appears from a comedy called the 'Merry Beggars, or Jovial Crew', 1641: — 'Shall we make a fling to London, and see how the spring appears there in Spring Gardens, and in Hyde Park, to see the races, horse and foot?
Էջ 114 - There was present his Highness the Lord Protector, many of his Privy Council, and divers eminent gentlemen, to whose view was presented great agility of body, and most neat and exquisite wrestling, at every meeting of one with the other, which was ordered with such dexterity, that it was to show more the strength, vigour, and nimbleness of their bodies than to endanger their persons. The ball they played withal was silver, and designed for that party which did win the goal.
Էջ 115 - This park was (it seems) used by the late king and nobility for the freshness of the air and the goodly prospect; but it is that which now (besides all other...
Էջ 114 - This day was more observed by people going a maying than for divers years past, and indeed much sin committed by wicked meetings with fiddlers, drunkenness, ribaldry, and the like ; great resort came to Hyde Park, many hundreds- of coaches and gallants in attire, but most shameful powdered hair men, and painted and spotted women. Some men played with a silver ball, and some took other recreation. But his Highness the Lord Protector went not thither, nor any of the Lords of the Commonwealth, but were...
Էջ 321 - THE dews of summer night did fall; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silver'd the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.
Էջ 236 - Out came a dirty silk handkerchief from his pocket, with which he carefully swept the ground ; then his opera hat was carefully placed for a pillow, and down he laid himself. After various tossings about, he seemed reconciled to the position ; but the house vociferously bawled out, " Die again, Romeo ! " and, obedient to the command, he rose up, and went through the ceremony again.
Էջ 364 - Augustus having, b' oversight, Put on his left shoe 'fore his right, Had like to have been slain that day By soldiers mutin'ing for pay.
Էջ 272 - The pleasure boats glide onward ; — with swift prow The clear wave curling, till around each bow, With frequent flash, the bright and feathery spray Threw mimic rainbows at the sun in play. The ship is won, the silken chair is...