The Book of Elegant Extracts ...W.P. Nimmo, 1875 - 148 páginas |
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... UNCLE TOBY'S GARDEN CAMPAIGNS , A CITY SHOWER , PASTORAL DUTIES AND DELIGHTS , Sterne , 49 Swift , 52 Shakespeare , 54 THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS , " GREEN GROW THE RASHES ,
... UNCLE TOBY'S GARDEN CAMPAIGNS , A CITY SHOWER , PASTORAL DUTIES AND DELIGHTS , Sterne , 49 Swift , 52 Shakespeare , 54 THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS , " GREEN GROW THE RASHES ,
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... when their temples long have wore The silver crown of tresses hoar ; As studious still calm peace to keep , Beneath a flowery turf they sleep . IF UNCLE TOBY'S GARDEN CAMPAIGNS . F the reader has. 48 THE BOOK OF ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... when their temples long have wore The silver crown of tresses hoar ; As studious still calm peace to keep , Beneath a flowery turf they sleep . IF UNCLE TOBY'S GARDEN CAMPAIGNS . F the reader has. 48 THE BOOK OF ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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IF UNCLE TOBY'S GARDEN CAMPAIGNS . F the reader has not got a clear conception of the rood and the half of ground which lay at the bottom of my uncle Toby's kitchen - garden . and which was the scene of so many of his delicious hours ...
IF UNCLE TOBY'S GARDEN CAMPAIGNS . F the reader has not got a clear conception of the rood and the half of ground which lay at the bottom of my uncle Toby's kitchen - garden . and which was the scene of so many of his delicious hours ...
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... uncle Toby , with Trim behind him , sallied forth , the one with the Gazette in his hand , the other with a spade on his shoulder , to execute the contents . What an honest triumph in my uncle Toby's looks as he marched up to the ...
... uncle Toby , with Trim behind him , sallied forth , the one with the Gazette in his hand , the other with a spade on his shoulder , to execute the contents . What an honest triumph in my uncle Toby's looks as he marched up to the ...
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... Toby , instead of a new suit of clothes , which he always had at Christmas ... uncle Toby to take the field with great splendour . My father would often ... Toby's nature , kind soul ! my father would add , to insult any one . Sterne ...
... Toby , instead of a new suit of clothes , which he always had at Christmas ... uncle Toby to take the field with great splendour . My father would often ... Toby's nature , kind soul ! my father would add , to insult any one . Sterne ...
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Página 137 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 66 - And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on !
Página 110 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells ! How it swells ! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells...
Página 55 - So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Página 55 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, • His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Página 110 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
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Página 93 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 21 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death.
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