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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... once more to sea : this was an attempt to excite a riot in a Methodist chapel ; for which his companions were prosecuted , and he fled . My father was a good seaman , and was soon made second in command in the Lyon , a large armed ...
... once more to sea : this was an attempt to excite a riot in a Methodist chapel ; for which his companions were prosecuted , and he fled . My father was a good seaman , and was soon made second in command in the Lyon , a large armed ...
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... once to despair . Mr. Hugh Smerdon , on whose succession I had calculated , died , and was succeeded by a person not much older than myself , and certainly not so well qualified for the situation . I look back on that part of my life ...
... once to despair . Mr. Hugh Smerdon , on whose succession I had calculated , died , and was succeeded by a person not much older than myself , and certainly not so well qualified for the situation . I look back on that part of my life ...
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... Once a year , a printed " copy of verses " reminds every newspaper reader that the hand that bore it is open to a small boon . " The Newsman's Address to his Customers , 1826 , " deploringly adverts to the general distress ...
... Once a year , a printed " copy of verses " reminds every newspaper reader that the hand that bore it is open to a small boon . " The Newsman's Address to his Customers , 1826 , " deploringly adverts to the general distress ...
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... once , almost blew up the stage by gun- powder , half suffocated the audience by assafoetida , and was wont to put hot cin- ders in the boots of his associates . He has " left the mimic scene to die indeed , " and sleeps peacefully ...
... once , almost blew up the stage by gun- powder , half suffocated the audience by assafoetida , and was wont to put hot cin- ders in the boots of his associates . He has " left the mimic scene to die indeed , " and sleeps peacefully ...
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... once a night , and the week's ac- count is audited by him and two others of the proprietors . A director , who superintends the room . The operator , the dealer at faro . Croupees two , who watch the card , and gather the money for the ...
... once a night , and the week's ac- count is audited by him and two others of the proprietors . A director , who superintends the room . The operator , the dealer at faro . Croupees two , who watch the card , and gather the money for the ...
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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...