The Newspaper Press: In Part of the Last Century and Up to the Present Period of 1860 : the Recollections of James Amphlett : who Has Been Styled The Father of the Press, Extending Over a Period of Sixty Years in Connexion with Newspapers, London and the Country, Том 1

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Whittaker, 1860 - 149 стор.

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Сторінка 138 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state. she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Сторінка 39 - The old woman of Berkeley said, The monk my son, and my daughter the nun, Bid them hasten, or I shall be dead. The monk her son, and her daughter the nun, Their way to Berkeley went, And they have brought with pious thought The holy sacrament. The old woman shriek'd as they entered her door.
Сторінка 24 - Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal nature lifts her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same...
Сторінка 39 - THE raven croak'd as she sat at her meal, And the old woman knew what he said, And she grew pale at the raven's tale, And sicken'd and went to her bed. Now fetch me my children, and fetch them with speed...
Сторінка 74 - ... them wild omens, science to the wise ! These mark the comet to the sun incline, While deep-red flames around its centre shine ! While its fierce rear a winding trail displays, And lights all ether with the sweepy blaze ! Or when, compell'd, it flies the torrid zone, And shoots by worlds unnumber'd, and unknown; By worlds, whose people, all aghast with fear, May view that minister of vengeance near ! Till now the transient glow, remote, and lost, Decays, and darkens mid involving frost! Or when...
Сторінка 41 - And the coffin lid that was barr'd so firm He burst with his voice of thunder. And he bade the Old Woman of Berkeley...
Сторінка 14 - If he begins on any one particular passion or principle, he commonly works about it, from some strange and incomprehensible impetus, till he involves himself in a mass of nebulous matter, that is as remote from the nature of his text as possible ! A great portion of one of his lectures, on the passion of love (as exemplified in Juliet) consisted...
Сторінка 74 - And sanguine ensigns wave unfurl'd in air! Hence the weak vulgar deem impending fate, A monarch ruin'd, or unpeopled state. Thus comets, dreadful visitants! arise, To them wild omens, science to the wise ! These mark the comet to the sun incline, While deep-red flames around its centre shine ! While its fierce rear a winding trail displays, And lights all ether with the...
Сторінка 75 - By worlds, whose people, all aghast with fear, May view that minister of vengeance near ! Till now the transient glow, remote, and lost, Decays, and darkens mid involving frost! Or when it, sun-ward, drinks rich beams again, And. burns imperious on tlie' etherial plain! The learn'd one, curious, eyes it from afar, Sparkling through night, a new, illustrious star!
Сторінка 127 - I have a silent sorrow here, A grief I'll ne'er impart ; It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, But it consumes my heart.

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