The Old English Gentleman,: A Poem,Cadell and Davies, Strand; Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and Dilly, in the Poultry., 1797 - 146 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
amid amidſt ancient Andarton bade beneath bluſh boaſt bofom bouncing boy cauſe cloſe Corniſh Cornwall deem'd DEVON diſtance erft fafe falute fame farmers faſhion feat fhade figh filk filver firft firſt focial foft fome foon fpirits ftill fuch fuperior fweet gloom grace guife hail'd HARRIET hath heart himſelf HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE houſe houſehold HUMPHREY's juſt Knight laſt lefs lord lov'd Mamhead Manaccan maſter Mifs PRUE moſt muft muſt nofe noſe o'er obfervation Octavo OLD ENGLISH OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN once paſt perhaps pleaſant pleaſe pleaſure poem poor praiſe prefent pride Queen MATILDA RACHEL racters rais'd refpect rofe ſcarcely ſcene ſchool ſeems ſhe ſhed ſheep ſhould Sir HUMPHREY ſmile ſmooth ſport ſpray ſpread ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtore ſuch ſweet taſte themſelves THEOCRITUS theſe thofe thoſe thro tongue Twas Unleſs uſed vulgar weſtern whilft whofe Whoſe wiſh wonted
Pasajes populares
Página 76 - Whose beard descending swept his aged breast ; The ruin'd spendthrift, now no longer proud, Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims...
Página 132 - ... than one hundred a year is forbidden to kill a partridge on his own estate, yet nobody else (not even the lord of the manor, unless he hath a grant of free warren) can do it without committing a trespass, and subjecting himself to an action.
Página 116 - Or catch th' elusive apple with a bound. As with its taper it flew whizzing round." Luther, in his " Colloquia," i. 233, tells us that " upon the eve of Christmas Day the women run about and strike a swinish hour (pulsant horam suillam) : if a great hog grunts, it denotes the future husband to oe an old man, if a small one, a young man.
Página vi - By all that from thy prophet broke, In thy divine emotions spoke ; Hither again thy fury deal, Teach me but once like him to feel : His cypress wreath my meed decree, And I, O Fear, will dwell with thee!
Página 114 - Sir HUMPHREY hail'd his coetaneous oak. " Each year ("the Knight would cry) each year I fee " Thy ftem that argues a more vigorous tree ; " Whilft 1, my brother, am grown old and fhrunk, " Full foon to wither, a poor faplefs trunk!
Página 131 - ... a year, is forbidden to kill, a partridge upon his own eftate ; yet nobody elfe, (not even the lord of the manor, unlefs he hath a grant of...
Página 75 - Mucronura infignes, afflataque fulphure membra. Chara ftupet conjux, reducifque incerta mariti Veftigat faciem ; trepida formidine proles Stat procul, et patrios horrefcit nefcia vultus.
Página 131 - ... notions of permanent property in wild creatures ; and both productive of the fame tyranny to the commons : but with this difference ; that the foreft laws, eftablifhed only one mighty hunter throughout the land, the game laws have raifed a little Nimrod in every manor.
Página ii - ... of boroughmongers, merchants, and miners." To this defign Cornwall appeared peculiarly favourable. So great a revolution in the little moralities of life has lately taken place, that we are anxious to catch a few traits of the laft age whilft yet they remain vifible, and to prelerve them at leart as curiofities.
Página iii - But it mould be confidered, that many trivialities (if I may fo exprefs myfelf), which, from our familiar acquaintance with them, feem too contemptible for notice, will wear a very different afpeft hereafter, whilft they no longer exift in common life. If this poem mould defcend to pofterity, they will then excite attention as curious...