The Midsummer Medley: A Series of Comic Tales ... in Prose and Verse, Volume 2H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1832 |
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Adam and Eve Ahael Alderamy Alfadhel Almack's beautiful become Behold beneath Bishop body brain Brighton caravan character Comical confess Count cried cure dæmon Damascus dark death delight Derry dervise Don Quixote door dress dunces earth so surpassingly ejaculate exclaimed eyes fear fire Furze gaze gentlemen ghost golden GOLDEN CALF Grace Graves ground Grub habit hand head heard heart heaven on earth horror hour human impa instantly jackass jokes Lady living look Lord Lovely or rare Ma'am Mammon mare Marshal Saxe means mind mistress modern morning mouth nature never night novel Ovid patrician plebeian poor Potts Poyais present scarcely scene Serapis SHAKSPEARE sight Sir Walter Scott soon stamp'd story stranger sure surpassingly fair Talleyrand taste tears terror thing thought thrown tion took tree voice wealth whole wind writer Yezid
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Página 181 - Britannia's golden mine, a rich Peru ! How his eyes languish ! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore ! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, That touch'd the ruff, that touch'd Queen Bess's chin...
Página 145 - L'art de tromper les yeux par les couleurs, L'art plus heureux de séduire les cœurs, De cent plaisirs font un plaisir unique.
Página 178 - Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do...
Página 1 - CRY Holiday! Holiday! let us be gay, And share in the rapture of heaven and earth ; For see ! what a sunshiny joy they display, To welcome the Spring on the day of her birth; While the elements, gladly outpouring their voice, Nature's Paean...
Página 1 - Holiday! Holiday! let us be gay, And share in the rapture of heaven and earth ; For see! what a sunshiny joy they display, To welcome the Spring on the day of her birth; While the elements, gladly outpouring their voice, Nature's Paean proclaim, and in chorus rejoice!
Página 175 - The Queen of Night, whose large command Rules all the sea, and half the land, And over moist and crazy brains, In high spring-tides, at midnight reigns, Was now declining to the west, To go to bed and take her rest...
Página 166 - He told us he had been thirty years employing his thoughts for the improvement of human life. He had two large rooms full of wonderful curiosities, and fifty men at work ; some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance by extracting the nitre and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble for pillows and pin-cushions ; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse to preserve them from foundering.
Página 98 - On the Downs you are like an old jacket, Hung up in the sunshine to dry ; In the town you are all in a racket, With donkey-cart, whiskey, and fly.
Página 179 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet," says Shakspeare, (who very properly lumps them together) " are of imagination all compact ;" and elsewhere he observes, " Love is merely madness, and deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do ; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Página 74 - It is bristled with thorns, I confess; But so is the much-flatter'd Rose : Is the Sweetbriar lauded the less Because amid prickles it grows ? 'Twere to cut off an epigram's point, Or disfurnish a knight of his spurs, If we foolishly wish'd to disjoint Its arms from the lance-bearing Furze. Ye dabblers in mines, who would clutch The wealth which their bowels enfold, See ! Nature, with Midas-like touch, Here turns a whole common to gold.