The Indicator and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and Fire-side, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1835 |
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... Vall , who flourished in the time of Charles the Second , and wishing to introduce him worthily to the readers , it has brought to mind such a number of the light- fingered gentry , his predecessors , that we almost feel hustled by the ...
... Vall , who flourished in the time of Charles the Second , and wishing to introduce him worthily to the readers , it has brought to mind such a number of the light- fingered gentry , his predecessors , that we almost feel hustled by the ...
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... Vall . The length to which this article has stretched out , will be a warning to us how we render our paper liable to be run away with in future . There is a very fine story of Three Thieves in Chaucer , which we must tell at large ...
... Vall . The length to which this article has stretched out , will be a warning to us how we render our paper liable to be run away with in future . There is a very fine story of Three Thieves in Chaucer , which we must tell at large ...
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... Vall , whom we have come such a long and dangerous journey to see ! Claude Du Vall , according to a pleasant account of him in the Harleian Miscellany , was born at Dom- front , in Normandy , in the year 1643 , of Pierre Du Vall ...
... Vall , whom we have come such a long and dangerous journey to see ! Claude Du Vall , according to a pleasant account of him in the Harleian Miscellany , was born at Dom- front , in Normandy , in the year 1643 , of Pierre Du Vall ...
Page 155
... Vall takes the hint , plays also , and excellently well , upon a flageolet of his own , and in this posture he rides up to the coach side . Sir , ' says he to the person in the coach , ' your lady plays excellently , and I doubt not but ...
... Vall takes the hint , plays also , and excellently well , upon a flageolet of his own , and in this posture he rides up to the coach side . Sir , ' says he to the person in the coach , ' your lady plays excellently , and I doubt not but ...
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... Vall leaps lightly off his horse , and hands the lady out of the coach . They danced , and here it was that Du Vall performed marvels ; the best master in London , except those that are French , not being able to shew such footing as he ...
... Vall leaps lightly off his horse , and hands the lady out of the coach . They danced , and here it was that Du Vall performed marvels ; the best master in London , except those that are French , not being able to shew such footing as he ...
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Page 105 - Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
Page 241 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of Gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear...
Page 259 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor did...
Page 48 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 287 - She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew, And sure in language strange she said — "I love thee true.
Page 287 - La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!" I saw their starved lips in the gloam With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here On the cold hill's side. And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
Page 267 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Page 260 - Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 105 - The western wave was all a-flame; The day was well nigh done! Almost upon the western wave Rested the broad bright Sun; When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt us and the Sun.
Page 8 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold, The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...