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Page 2 - Full face, front view with a plain white or off-white background Between 1 inch and 1 3/8 inches from the bottom of the chin...
Page 268 - It is the opinion of the writer that the story is of Italian origin, and that it formed part of one of the many rascally novels brought over to England after the marriage of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, the third son of Edward the Third, with Violante, daughter of Galeazzo, Duke of Milan. Dafydd ab Gwilym has been in general considered as a songster who never employed his Muse on any subject save that of love, and there can be no doubt that by far the greater number of his pieces are devoted more or...
Page 269 - Indian between man and the brute creation, and found much matter in it for curious observation. Although they consider themselves superior to all other animals and are very proud of that superiority ; although they believe that the beasts of the forest, the birds of the air, and the fishes of the waters, were created by the Almighty Being for the use of man; yet it seems as if they ascribe the difference between themselves and the brute kind, and the dominion which they have over them, more to their...
Page 78 - It's a tune that doesn't please my ears. If, however, you choose to play "Croppies Lie Down," I'll give you a shilling.' '"Your hanner will give me a shilling?' '"Yes,' said I, 'if you play "Croppies Lie Down": but you know you cannot play it, your fingers never learned the tune.
Page 78 - I used to hear the tune in my boyish days,' said I, 'and wished to hear it again ; for, though you call it a blackguard tune, it is the sweetest and most noble air that Ireland, the land of music, has ever produced. As for the words, never mind where I got them ; they are violent enough, but not half so violent as the words of some of the songs made against the Irish Protestants by the priests.
Page 184 - One enormous fellow particularly caught my notice. I guessed he must have weighed at least eleven score, he had a half-ruddy, half-tallowy face, brown hair, and rather thin whiskers. He was higgling with the proprietor of an immense hog, and as he higgled he wheezed as if he had a difficulty of respiration, and frequently wiped off, with a dirty white pocket-handkerchief, drops of perspiration which stood upon his face.
Page 158 - Welshmen gave him the best of home-brewed, " rich and mellow, with scarcely any smack of the hop in it, and though so pale and delicate to the eye nearly as strong as brandy.
Page 308 - Well, she was a fine young woman and a vartuous.. I remember her knocking down and giving a black eye to my old mother, who was wonderfully deep in Romany, for making a bit of a gillie about you and she. What was the song? Lord, how my memory fails me...
Page 218 - I scarcely know, unless to an immense skein of silk agitated and disturbed by tempestuous blasts, or to the long tail of a grey courser at furious speed. Through the profusion of...
Page 269 - ... Latin poets was, a Christian; that is, in his latter days, when he began to feel the vanity of all human pursuits, when his nerves began to be unstrung, his hair to fall off, and his teeth to drop out, and he then...