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... century poet , Thomas Tickell , who peopled the same district with a fairy host who played On every hill , and danced in every shade . In Tickell's time Kensington Gardens domains stretched Where the skies high Holland House invades ...
... century poet , Thomas Tickell , who peopled the same district with a fairy host who played On every hill , and danced in every shade . In Tickell's time Kensington Gardens domains stretched Where the skies high Holland House invades ...
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... century ago . by the Hon . William Robert Spencer ( 1770- 1834 ) , as an Epitaph on the Year 1806 , " needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date . For it begins and ends thus , with touching ...
... century ago . by the Hon . William Robert Spencer ( 1770- 1834 ) , as an Epitaph on the Year 1806 , " needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date . For it begins and ends thus , with touching ...
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... century ago . by the Hon . William Robert Spencer ( 1770- 1834 ) , as an Epitaph on the Year 1806 , " needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date . For it begins and ends thus , with touching ...
... century ago . by the Hon . William Robert Spencer ( 1770- 1834 ) , as an Epitaph on the Year 1806 , " needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date . For it begins and ends thus , with touching ...
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... century " chastity " was used to denote purity of style and the like , in cases where people might now prefer " chasteness , " and the- habit lingered into the nineteenth . ST . SWITHIN . ST . GEORGE'S CHAPEL YARD , OXFORD ROAD ( 10 S ...
... century " chastity " was used to denote purity of style and the like , in cases where people might now prefer " chasteness , " and the- habit lingered into the nineteenth . ST . SWITHIN . ST . GEORGE'S CHAPEL YARD , OXFORD ROAD ( 10 S ...
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... century . The work of collecting and verifying the information proved a lengthier task than was anticipated , and delayed the completion of the work . The Edition is limited to six hundred copies , of which about four hundred and fifty ...
... century . The work of collecting and verifying the information proved a lengthier task than was anticipated , and delayed the completion of the work . The Edition is limited to six hundred copies , of which about four hundred and fifty ...
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Página 200 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.
Página 143 - Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the night ; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes...
Página 133 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come ; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Página 234 - The wound it seem'd both sore and sad To every Christian eye ; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die. But soon a wonder came to light, That showed the rogues they lied ; The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
Página 213 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Página 240 - The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone ; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately : and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect.
Página 60 - We bless Thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for Thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our LORD JESUS CHRIST ; for the means of grace ; and for the hope of glory.
Página 239 - But he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Página 432 - I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat ; For though I am not splenitive and rash Yet have I something in me dangerous, Which let thy wiseness fear.
Página 316 - I praise the Frenchman*, his remark was shrewd—. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper — solitude is sweet.