The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calandar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events ...T. Tegg, 1835 - Days |
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... master . " They were all tried , found guilty and condemned to be transported for seven ycars ; but , in consideration of their great Hutchins's Dorset . Capper . suffering from their wounds in prison , the humane judge 31 32 THE TABLE ...
... master . " They were all tried , found guilty and condemned to be transported for seven ycars ; but , in consideration of their great Hutchins's Dorset . Capper . suffering from their wounds in prison , the humane judge 31 32 THE TABLE ...
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... master began to distinguish me ; but these golden days were over in less than three months Carlile sickened at the expense ; and , as the people were now indifferent to my fate , he looked round for an opportunity of ridding him- self ...
... master began to distinguish me ; but these golden days were over in less than three months Carlile sickened at the expense ; and , as the people were now indifferent to my fate , he looked round for an opportunity of ridding him- self ...
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... master , whose name was Full , though a gross and ignorant , was not an ill - natured , man ; at least , not to me and my mistress used me with unvarying kindness ; moved perhaps by my weakness and tender years . In return , I did what ...
... master , whose name was Full , though a gross and ignorant , was not an ill - natured , man ; at least , not to me and my mistress used me with unvarying kindness ; moved perhaps by my weakness and tender years . In return , I did what ...
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... master ) was now grown old and infirm ; it seemed unlikely that he should hold out above three or four years ; and I fondly flattered my self that , notwithstanding my youth , I might possibly be appointed to succeed him . I was in my ...
... master ) was now grown old and infirm ; it seemed unlikely that he should hold out above three or four years ; and I fondly flattered my self that , notwithstanding my youth , I might possibly be appointed to succeed him . I was in my ...
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... master had already threatened me , for inadvertently hitching the name of one of his customers into a rhyme . The ... master's anger was raised to a terrible pitch , by my indifference to his concerns , and still more by the reports ...
... master had already threatened me , for inadvertently hitching the name of one of his customers into a rhyme . The ... master's anger was raised to a terrible pitch , by my indifference to his concerns , and still more by the reports ...
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Page 765 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 191 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Page 489 - Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business...
Page 99 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 765 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 765 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 409 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 777 - When if an insect fall, (his certain guide) He gently takes him from the whirling tide, Examines well his form with curious eyes, His gaudy vest, his wings, his horns, and size; Then round his hook the chosen fur he winds, And on the back a speckled feather binds; So just the colours shine through every part, That Nature seems to live again in Art.
Page 751 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 775 - The worm that draws a long immoderate size, The trout abhors, and the rank morsel flies ; And, if too small, the naked fraud's in sight, And fear forbids, while hunger does invite. Those baits will best reward the fisher's pains, Whose...