The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 5Joseph Shackell, 1830 - English periodicals |
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... hath died as firmly as St. Paul himself ; let us away , Ruprecht ; and you , Gortz , get ye home , -here is a purse for thy work . " " I thank your honour , " said the exe- cutioner , taking the money , " and I hope the job was done to ...
... hath died as firmly as St. Paul himself ; let us away , Ruprecht ; and you , Gortz , get ye home , -here is a purse for thy work . " " I thank your honour , " said the exe- cutioner , taking the money , " and I hope the job was done to ...
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... hath one houre- THE SCOLE HOWSE . " We shall not reach Leyden before sunrise , " said Frank Marberoll to his friend and companion , as they rode at the head of their little troop of pistoliers.- " We are full six leagues from the city ...
... hath one houre- THE SCOLE HOWSE . " We shall not reach Leyden before sunrise , " said Frank Marberoll to his friend and companion , as they rode at the head of their little troop of pistoliers.- " We are full six leagues from the city ...
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... hath restored to me my child . No ! -no ! let the proud Fitz Howard come and beg his cub of me himself , and I will tell him what ransom a childless man puts on the son of the enemy who made him so ! - Away ! I will hear no more save ...
... hath restored to me my child . No ! -no ! let the proud Fitz Howard come and beg his cub of me himself , and I will tell him what ransom a childless man puts on the son of the enemy who made him so ! - Away ! I will hear no more save ...
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... hath flown , And the eagle hath followed , -O , Glendhu ! - ochone ! " J. WOOD . LONDON . IMITATED FROM JUVENAL . ( For the Clio . ) " Quicquid aqunt hommes - nostri est farrago libelli . " My theme is man . I follow o'er the road So ...
... hath flown , And the eagle hath followed , -O , Glendhu ! - ochone ! " J. WOOD . LONDON . IMITATED FROM JUVENAL . ( For the Clio . ) " Quicquid aqunt hommes - nostri est farrago libelli . " My theme is man . I follow o'er the road So ...
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... Hath lost its charmes for me . ALPHA SMOKING . - CIGAR DIVANS . Yet thy true lovers more admire by fur Thy naked beauties - give me a Cigar . BYRON . THERE is a class of persons whose gross habit of body will not allow them to in- dulge ...
... Hath lost its charmes for me . ALPHA SMOKING . - CIGAR DIVANS . Yet thy true lovers more admire by fur Thy naked beauties - give me a Cigar . BYRON . THERE is a class of persons whose gross habit of body will not allow them to in- dulge ...
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Page 378 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 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,
Page 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.
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.