The Literary magnet of the belles lettres, science, and the fine arts, ed. by Tobias Merton. Vol.1 - new ser., vol.[2. Vol.2 of the new ser. wants all after p.192]., Том 1Tobias Merton (pseud) 1824 |
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... received nothing more than a volume of Term Reports , the last number of the Quar- terly , a note - book , and a few fair sheets of foolscap . Intrusted with these , I was taken to Westminster , handed in and out of the courts ; up and ...
... received nothing more than a volume of Term Reports , the last number of the Quar- terly , a note - book , and a few fair sheets of foolscap . Intrusted with these , I was taken to Westminster , handed in and out of the courts ; up and ...
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... received a severe contusion ; but that was nothing com- pared with the kicks I received from my master . Think what must have been my feelings , Mr. Merton , on being thus ungratefully and indignantly degraded , kicked , trampled upon ...
... received a severe contusion ; but that was nothing com- pared with the kicks I received from my master . Think what must have been my feelings , Mr. Merton , on being thus ungratefully and indignantly degraded , kicked , trampled upon ...
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... received a dead person , and closed his eyes , his next business is to put a piece of money into his mouth to pay the ferryman of hell , who is Charon ; but he never considers whether it be money that is current in that country , so ...
... received a dead person , and closed his eyes , his next business is to put a piece of money into his mouth to pay the ferryman of hell , who is Charon ; but he never considers whether it be money that is current in that country , so ...
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... received a strange variety of old papers , and with them in my keeping , I had the honour of being introduced to one of the greatest comedians that ever ' smelt the lamp . ' Pray , Sir , allow me to ask if you ever saw ' Love , Law ...
... received a strange variety of old papers , and with them in my keeping , I had the honour of being introduced to one of the greatest comedians that ever ' smelt the lamp . ' Pray , Sir , allow me to ask if you ever saw ' Love , Law ...
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... received opinion in this country ; but the gravity of the sock , it might be thought , would be compensated by the lightness of the buskin . The buskin indeed is light , but it is not of that texture which befits universal comedy . How ...
... received opinion in this country ; but the gravity of the sock , it might be thought , would be compensated by the lightness of the buskin . The buskin indeed is light , but it is not of that texture which befits universal comedy . How ...
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Сторінка 73 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay...
Сторінка 358 - twould boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its chief delight was still On roses thus itself to fill, And its pure virgin limbs to fold In whitest sheets of lilies cold: Had it lived long, it would have been Lilies without, roses within.
Сторінка 358 - Twas, on those little silver feet! With what a pretty, skipping grace It oft would challenge me the race ! And when 't had left me far away, 'Twould stay, and run again, and stay; For it was nimbler, much, than hinds, And trod as if on the four winds.
Сторінка 32 - Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue. But now the day was come, the day, the hour; Now, frowning, smiling, for the hundredth...
Сторінка 414 - I will delate you for a warlock to the privy council!' said Sir John. 'I will send you to your master, the devil, with the help of a tar-barrel and a torch ! ' 'I intend to delate mysell to the presbytery,' said Steenie, ' and tell them all I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.
Сторінка 225 - Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
Сторінка 28 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Сторінка 100 - There scattered oft, the earliest of the year, By hands unseen, are showers of violets found; The redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print the ground...
Сторінка 405 - Court, wi' the king's ain sword ; and being a red-hot prelatist, he came down here, rampauging like a lion, with commissions of lieutenancy (and of lunacy, for what I ken), to put down a' the Whigs and Covenanters in the country. Wild wark they made of it ; for the Whigs were as dour as the Cavaliers were fierce, and it was which should first tire the other. Redgauntlet was aye for the strong hand ; and his name is kend as wide in the country as Claverhouse's or Tarn Dalyell's.
Сторінка 416 - Sir John made up his story about the jackanape as he liked himsell; and some believe till this day there was no more in the matter than the filching nature of the brute. Indeed, ye'll no hinder some to threap, that it was nane o...