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... courts . Th- was a tall , dark , saturnine youth , sparing of speech , with raven locks . Thomas Fanshaw Middleton followed him , ( now Bishop of Calcutta , ) a scholar and a gentleman in his teens . He has the repu- tation of an ...
... courts . Th- was a tall , dark , saturnine youth , sparing of speech , with raven locks . Thomas Fanshaw Middleton followed him , ( now Bishop of Calcutta , ) a scholar and a gentleman in his teens . He has the repu- tation of an ...
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... you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight , at all comparable to that you have it in your power to experience most evenings over a well - arranged assortment of the court cards ? —the pretty antic habits 16 ESSAYS OF ELIA .
... you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight , at all comparable to that you have it in your power to experience most evenings over a well - arranged assortment of the court cards ? —the pretty antic habits 16 ESSAYS OF ELIA .
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A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature. assortment of the court cards ? —the pretty antic habits , like heralds in a procession - the gay tri- umph - assuring scarlets - the contrasting deadly- killing sables — the ' hoary majesty ...
A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature. assortment of the court cards ? —the pretty antic habits , like heralds in a procession - the gay tri- umph - assuring scarlets - the contrasting deadly- killing sables — the ' hoary majesty ...
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... court there yet stands a portal , of some architectural pretensions , though reduced to humble use , serving at present for an entrance to a printing - office . This old door - way , if you are young , reader , you may not know was the ...
... court there yet stands a portal , of some architectural pretensions , though reduced to humble use , serving at present for an entrance to a printing - office . This old door - way , if you are young , reader , you may not know was the ...
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... court of Persia . It was being admitted to a sight of the past . I took no proper interest in the action going on , for I understood not its import - but I heard the word Darius , and I was in the midst of Daniel . All feeling was ...
... court of Persia . It was being admitted to a sight of the past . I took no proper interest in the action going on , for I understood not its import - but I heard the word Darius , and I was in the midst of Daniel . All feeling was ...
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Página 30 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Página 55 - Father, the pig, the pig, do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats." The ears of Ho-ti tingled with horror. He cursed his son, and he cursed himself that ever he should beget a son that should eat burnt pig.
Página 56 - He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed or boiled, but what a sacrifice of the exterior tegument ! There is no flavour comparable, I will contend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted crackling...
Página 37 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide; There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and combs its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 55 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
Página 37 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Página 110 - Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; Curl me about, ye gadding vines ; And oh so close your circles lace, That I may never leave this place...
Página 55 - The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling, (which I take to be the elder brother,) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swineherd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect mast for his hogs, left his cottage in the care of his eldest son Bo-bo, a great lubberly boy, who being fond of playing with fire, as...
Página 45 - ... came to decay, and was nearly pulled down, and all its old ornaments stripped and carried away to the owner's other house, where they were set up, and looked as awkward as if some one were to carry away the old tombs they had seen lately at the abbey, and stick them up in Lady C.'s tawdry gilt drawing-room. Here John smiled, as much as to say, " That would be foolish indeed.
Página 55 - What could it proceed from? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young firebrand.