The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volumen5Joseph Shackell, 1830 |
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... objects terminate , is ever an object of strange interest to man . It is singular , too , to observe how fond we are of decking out death with pomp . We cling to these last ceremonies , we give all the show of pride to our grief , Every ...
... objects terminate , is ever an object of strange interest to man . It is singular , too , to observe how fond we are of decking out death with pomp . We cling to these last ceremonies , we give all the show of pride to our grief , Every ...
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... objects . By its aid might be discovered little that every fisher's cabin might not boast of possessing ; no article of furniture adorned the hut , save an old high - back'd chair ; strings of dried fish decorated the roof ; a bench ...
... objects . By its aid might be discovered little that every fisher's cabin might not boast of possessing ; no article of furniture adorned the hut , save an old high - back'd chair ; strings of dried fish decorated the roof ; a bench ...
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... objects startles most that mostly shine , And , on the test of his astonish'd sight , Concludes the brightest to be most divine . Sol , with the splendour of his fiery beam , Claims many a Pagan for his devotee ; And night - illuming ...
... objects startles most that mostly shine , And , on the test of his astonish'd sight , Concludes the brightest to be most divine . Sol , with the splendour of his fiery beam , Claims many a Pagan for his devotee ; And night - illuming ...
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... object of this attachment was Mary Duff ; and the following passage from a journal , kept by him in 1813 , will shew how freshly , after an interval of seventeen years , all the circumstances of this early love still lived in his memory ...
... object of this attachment was Mary Duff ; and the following passage from a journal , kept by him in 1813 , will shew how freshly , after an interval of seventeen years , all the circumstances of this early love still lived in his memory ...
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... object of them . A seniority of two years gives to a girl on the eve of womanhood , ' an advance into life , with which the boy keeps no proportionate pace . Miss Chaworth looked upon Byron as a mere schoolboy . He was in his man ...
... object of them . A seniority of two years gives to a girl on the eve of womanhood , ' an advance into life , with which the boy keeps no proportionate pace . Miss Chaworth looked upon Byron as a mere schoolboy . He was in his man ...
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Página 378 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Página 377 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Página 265 - Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Página 250 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." " I hope," said Nelson, " none of our ships have struck." Hardy answered,
Página 250 - Captain Hardy, some fifty minutes after he had left the cockpit, returned ; and, again taking the hand of his dying friend and commander, congratulated him on having gained a complete victory. How many of the enemy were taken he did not know, as it was impossible to perceive them distinctly ; but fourteen or fifteen at least. " That's well, cried Nelson,
Página 266 - A sudden star, it shot through liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair. Not Berenice's locks first rose so bright, The heavens bespangling with dishevelled light.
Página 39 - We were on good terms, but his brother was my intimate friend. There were always great hopes of Peel, amongst us all, masters and scholars — and he has not disappointed them. As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor, I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a schoolboy, out of school, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; and in school, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely, — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c., I...
Página 170 - Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered them as certain...
Página 251 - Kiss me, Hardy," said he. Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek, and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty." Hardy stood over him in silence for a moment or two, then knelt again, and kissed his forehead. " Who is that ?" said Nelson, and being informed, he replied, "God bless you, Hardy.
Página 86 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.