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... passed for the twin sister of my own great doll . On the table was I perched to read some Foxite newspaper , " Courier , " or " Morning Chronicle , " the Whiggish oracles of the day , and as my delight in the high - seasoned politics of ...
... passed for the twin sister of my own great doll . On the table was I perched to read some Foxite newspaper , " Courier , " or " Morning Chronicle , " the Whiggish oracles of the day , and as my delight in the high - seasoned politics of ...
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... passed , and I am an old woman , whose nut- brown hair has turned to white ; but I never see that heavily - bound copy of " Percy's Reliques " without the home of my infancy springing up before my eyes . A pleasant home , in truth , it ...
... passed , and I am an old woman , whose nut- brown hair has turned to white ; but I never see that heavily - bound copy of " Percy's Reliques " without the home of my infancy springing up before my eyes . A pleasant home , in truth , it ...
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... passed Cape Clear , and saw five leagues before , The pirate galleys vanishing that ravaged Baltimore . Oh ! some ... passing prayer , For he had slain the kith and kin of many a hundred there . Some muttered of MacMurchadh , who had ...
... passed Cape Clear , and saw five leagues before , The pirate galleys vanishing that ravaged Baltimore . Oh ! some ... passing prayer , For he had slain the kith and kin of many a hundred there . Some muttered of MacMurchadh , who had ...
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... passed on that hideous wrack , While cavalier and fantassin dash in upon their track . On Fontenoy , on Fontenoy , like eagles in the sun , With bloody plumes the Irish stand : the field is fought and won ! John Banim was the founder of ...
... passed on that hideous wrack , While cavalier and fantassin dash in upon their track . On Fontenoy , on Fontenoy , like eagles in the sun , With bloody plumes the Irish stand : the field is fought and won ! John Banim was the founder of ...
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... Passing a few days with Mr. Burke at his favourite retirement , the great painter accompanied his host on a visit to his bailiff . A noble boy lay sprawling in the cradle in the room where they sat . His mother would fain have re- moved ...
... Passing a few days with Mr. Burke at his favourite retirement , the great painter accompanied his host on a visit to his bailiff . A noble boy lay sprawling in the cradle in the room where they sat . His mother would fain have re- moved ...
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Page 233 - The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For, having lost...
Page 289 - Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground ; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.
Page 319 - With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love.
Page 320 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither — soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy-buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, — All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy Love.
Page 222 - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 106 - There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair...
Page 48 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 235 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 221 - World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 152 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.