 Tired of exposing such folly, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud resting on the bosom of the blue expanse, which reminded us of what we had seen in some picture in the Louvre. We were suddenly roused from our reverie by recollecting that...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 3441843Full view - About this book
 | Poems - 1827 - 934 pages
...Ship the Bellerophon, in Plymouth Sound, before his banishment to Saint Helena, in August 1815.) " A cut-purse of the empire — ^— — — — That from the shelf the precious diadem stole." SHAKSFEAIE. AND is it come to this ?— is this the man Who through the earth war's lightning hurled... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1844 - 476 pages
...Raffaelle to set up the credit of their professional little-goes and EO tables — " cut-purses of the Art, that from the shelf the precious diadem stole, and put it in their pockets?" Tired of exposing such knavery, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud... | |
 | Robert Weir - Marine engines - 1864 - 60 pages
...quack and a beast, a knave and a wretch — A villain, A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, "Who from the shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ? "Will you butt your head against a stone wall, because, like the man in the novel, you find... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 592 pages
...Eaphael to set up the credit of their professional little-goes and EO tables — " cutpurses of the art, that from the shelf the precious diadem stole, and put it in their pockets " ? Tired of exposing such folly, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 582 pages
...Raphael to set up the credit of their professional little-goes and EO tables — " cutpurses of the art, that from the shelf the precious diadem stole, and put it in their pockets"? Tired of exposing such folly, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud resting... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Art - 1873 - 508 pages
...to set up the credit of their professional little-goes and E 0 tables — " cut-purses of the art, that from the shelf the precious diadem stole and put it in their pockets V Tired of exposing such knavery, we walked out the other day, and saw a bright cloud... | |
 | James Rees - Biography & Autobiography - 1874 - 530 pages
...proceeds: " A murderer and a villain ; a slave, etc. * * * A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, That from the shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in 1 ' U pocket. A king of shreds and patches."— [Enter Ghost.} It is here the wonderful power of the... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - American essays - 1879 - 506 pages
...put his crown on his head again, to be sure ; but for ever after he looked like " .... the thief. Who from the shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket." What a pity that this man, who was deficient neither in courage nor, we suppose, in a certain... | |
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