The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 4Joseph Shackell, 1830 |
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... ment on the scene . It was a clear and beautiful day on which the Lion - hearted King made his entry into London , and as he rode through the Chepe , thousands of loyal voices greeted his return . The trappings of the horse he rode ...
... ment on the scene . It was a clear and beautiful day on which the Lion - hearted King made his entry into London , and as he rode through the Chepe , thousands of loyal voices greeted his return . The trappings of the horse he rode ...
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... ment of antiquity has ever been found , formed of compasses of stones like these , but are merely single pillars or obelisks , such as we read Jacob set up by the grave of his beloved Rachel . 66 Again , Mr. Pryce asserts , with his ...
... ment of antiquity has ever been found , formed of compasses of stones like these , but are merely single pillars or obelisks , such as we read Jacob set up by the grave of his beloved Rachel . 66 Again , Mr. Pryce asserts , with his ...
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... ment than in our infancy . Picture to yourself , gentle reader , a helpless kitten struggling in the grasp of a strong child of two years old , who , regardless of its suffocated cries , almost wrings its devoted head from its body ...
... ment than in our infancy . Picture to yourself , gentle reader , a helpless kitten struggling in the grasp of a strong child of two years old , who , regardless of its suffocated cries , almost wrings its devoted head from its body ...
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... ment to my master's family , by performing those ludicrous tricks which often set the gravest faces on the grin . But there was one alloy to our pleasures , namely , the occasional visitations of those fits to which our race are ...
... ment to my master's family , by performing those ludicrous tricks which often set the gravest faces on the grin . But there was one alloy to our pleasures , namely , the occasional visitations of those fits to which our race are ...
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... ment , and languished and expired in May , Whene'er the clothes flapp'd smartly through 1782 , in the 69th year of his age . ** “ As a landscape - painter the merits of Wilson are great , his conceptions are generally noble , and his ...
... ment , and languished and expired in May , Whene'er the clothes flapp'd smartly through 1782 , in the 69th year of his age . ** “ As a landscape - painter the merits of Wilson are great , his conceptions are generally noble , and his ...
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Page 233 - 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 anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 324 - That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the sun direct the flaming day ; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves, With transport touches all the springs of life.
Page 151 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!
Page 388 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 291 - He could never fix his thoughts, nor govern his estate, tho' then the greatest in England. He was bred about the King : And for many years he had a great ascendent over him : But he spake of him to all persons with that contempt, that at last he drew a lasting disgrace upon himself. And he at length ruined both body and mind, fortune and reputation equally. The madness of vice appeared in his person in very eminent instances ; since at last he became contemptible and poor, sickly, and sunk in his...
Page 247 - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 168 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Page 336 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread, rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar.
Page 136 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 63 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.