The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive Ballads, &c., &c, Հատոր 21844 |
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... stand as a prominent butt for the jokes of the more humorous among their fellow operatives ; for in the next year , or not long after , these navigators of the Tyne became involved in another transaction of a similar predatory character ...
... stand as a prominent butt for the jokes of the more humorous among their fellow operatives ; for in the next year , or not long after , these navigators of the Tyne became involved in another transaction of a similar predatory character ...
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... stand of his mare was empty - his favourite was gone ! The daring thief had picked the lock - stripped him of his covering - which was spread down to prevent any noise being heard , and had flown with his prize . He roused his servants ...
... stand of his mare was empty - his favourite was gone ! The daring thief had picked the lock - stripped him of his covering - which was spread down to prevent any noise being heard , and had flown with his prize . He roused his servants ...
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... stands a ladye at them now , The like of her I ne'er did see . " For on every finger she has a ring . And on her mid - finger she has three ; Pine Saxon , grief . " Well I wote that in this world gret pine is . " Chaucer . The Knighte's ...
... stands a ladye at them now , The like of her I ne'er did see . " For on every finger she has a ring . And on her mid - finger she has three ; Pine Saxon , grief . " Well I wote that in this world gret pine is . " Chaucer . The Knighte's ...
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... stands near the sea- shore , on the coast of Northumberland . The vicarage of this parish , half a century ago , was the residence of the Rev. Mr. LATTON and his family . My mother was then a young girl , the daughter of respectable ...
... stands near the sea- shore , on the coast of Northumberland . The vicarage of this parish , half a century ago , was the residence of the Rev. Mr. LATTON and his family . My mother was then a young girl , the daughter of respectable ...
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... stands that of King Arthur . The popularity which the romantic details of his actions - the feats of his chivalrous courtiers - and the improprieties of his faithless queen , obtained in ages , in which we are apt to imagine the ...
... stands that of King Arthur . The popularity which the romantic details of his actions - the feats of his chivalrous courtiers - and the improprieties of his faithless queen , obtained in ages , in which we are apt to imagine the ...
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The Local Historian's Table Book, of Remarkable Occurences ..., Հատոր 2 Moses Aaron Richardson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1844 |
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Էջ 98 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. "Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Էջ 16 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Էջ 267 - He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.
Էջ 306 - Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me. Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition ; By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, . The image of his Maker, hope to win...
Էջ 112 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends...
Էջ 413 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found. Among the faithless faithful only he : Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To 'swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Էջ 98 - Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Էջ 28 - And quickly hied he down the stair, Of fifteen steps he made but three; He's ta'en his bonnie love in his arms, And kist, and kist her tenderlie.
Էջ 160 - ... he comes flounce into bed, dead as a salmon into a fishmonger's basket; his feet cold as ice, his breath hot as a furnace, and his hands and his face as greasy as his flannel night-cap.
Էջ 308 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay ; All flesh is hay, Thus think, and smoke tobacco.