The Midsummer Medley for 1830: A Series of Comic Tales, Sketches, and Fugitive Vagaries, in Prose and Verse, Հատոր 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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Էջ 166 - The artist himself was at that time busy upon two great designs : the first to sow land with chaff, wherein he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as he demonstrated by several experiments, which I was not skilful enough to comprehend.
Էջ 182 - Britannia's golden mine, a rich Peru ! How his eyes languish ! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore ! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, That touch'd the ruff, that touch'd Queen Bess's chin...
Էջ 178 - Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do...
Էջ 1 - Holiday! Holiday! let us be gay, And share in the rapture of heaven and earth; For see! what a sunshiny joy they display, To welcome the Spring on the day of her birth; While the elements, gladly outpouring their voice, Nature's Paean proclaim, and in chorus rejoice!
Էջ 190 - WISDOM. What can ennoble fools, or sots, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. — POPE. "AND so you fell in with the Lavenham girls ? And they were over visiting the Schofield girls ? Over for the evening ? Quite in a friendly, cousinly way, all one family, running- in and out, hey ? " Sir Arther Dorrien was the speaker, and his tone betokened high good humor.
Էջ 1 - CRY Holiday! Holiday! let us be gay, And share in the rapture of heaven and earth ; For see ! what a sunshiny joy they display, To welcome the Spring on the day of her birth; While the elements, gladly outpouring their voice, Nature's Paean...
Էջ 175 - The Queen of Night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land, And over moist and crazy brains, In high spring-tides, at midnight reigns, Was now declining to the west, To go to bed and take her rest...
Էջ 179 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet," says Shakspeare, (who very properly lumps them together) " are of imagination all compact ;" and elsewhere he observes, " Love is merely madness, and deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do ; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Էջ 67 - From their conversation he gathered that they formed part of a band of robbers, who, having attacked and overmastered the caravan, had spared the life of his son upon his promise of giving up to them the valuable jewels carefully concealed about his person, and had brought him to the ruin to disburthen him of his hidden treasures. One by one, as their prisoner told them where to search, did they make the most rare and costly gems emerge from the folds of his innermost garments, and deposit them in...