The New microcosm, ed. by the senior class of Manchester school |
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Página 115
... Mordaunt , brother to the Earl of Peterborough , a young man whom you must have heard me mention as having seen in the suite of Charles at Ostend . Our meeting was very cordial . He ordered the landlord to shew him to a private room ...
... Mordaunt , brother to the Earl of Peterborough , a young man whom you must have heard me mention as having seen in the suite of Charles at Ostend . Our meeting was very cordial . He ordered the landlord to shew him to a private room ...
Página 116
... Mordaunt , as he had no plea of business to offer , he led me to his master's chamber , my companion promising to wait my arrival without . Judge my astonishment when , on entering the room , I found myself in the presence of the ...
... Mordaunt , as he had no plea of business to offer , he led me to his master's chamber , my companion promising to wait my arrival without . Judge my astonishment when , on entering the room , I found myself in the presence of the ...
Página 117
... Mordaunt had not thought it prudent to return ; and having paid my account , took my valise , mounted my horse , and rode down to Greenwich , where I found a vessel ready to sail for Holland . I embarked on board ; the wind was ...
... Mordaunt had not thought it prudent to return ; and having paid my account , took my valise , mounted my horse , and rode down to Greenwich , where I found a vessel ready to sail for Holland . I embarked on board ; the wind was ...
Página 127
... Mordaunt , brother to the Earl of Peterborough , a young man whom you must have heard me mention as having seen in the suite of Charles at Ostend . Our meeting was very cordial . He ordered the landlord to shew him to a private room ...
... Mordaunt , brother to the Earl of Peterborough , a young man whom you must have heard me mention as having seen in the suite of Charles at Ostend . Our meeting was very cordial . He ordered the landlord to shew him to a private room ...
Página 130
... Mordaunt , is it possible ! " The young man loosed his arm from the neck of one of his sup- porters , and held out his hand to his friend , who affectionately grasped it . " And now tell me , " said he , " what brought you here , you ...
... Mordaunt , is it possible ! " The young man loosed his arm from the neck of one of his sup- porters , and held out his hand to his friend , who affectionately grasped it . " And now tell me , " said he , " what brought you here , you ...
Términos y frases comunes
Abbeville ACROSTIC AMBERY ancient appear arrived beautiful began Bowden Bruges called Calmar Captain Farren castle CAVE and SEVER character Coddle companions CONAMUR TENUES GRANDIA CORIOLANUS Count countenance D'EVREUX dæmon dark death door Duke of Mayenne Emmeline endeavoured escape Eustace exclaimed eyes feelings followed Francois gate Geraldine give hand Harry Mordaunt hear heard Hewet Home Secretary honour horse immediately King language length look lord MANCHESTER MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL master MICROCOSM mind Montbrison Mordaunt morning never night o'er passed person poet poetry Pool Fold Printed by CAVE prisoner readers religion replied returned Rouen round roundhead seemed SENIOR CLASS servant Seven Hills shew Shuttleton Sir Philip Slingsby soldiers soon streets tell thee thing thou thought town trained bands trysting tree turned turnkey Vere VETURIA Warholme window word young
Pasajes populares
Página 75 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Página 28 - ... action, had he related them in the same order that they happened,) he cast them into the fifth, sixth, and seventh books, by way of episode to this noble poem. Aristotle himself allows that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable...
Página 10 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose...
Página 156 - Or the seven stars to light you, Or the polar ray to right you ; But you never may behold Little John, or Robin bold ; Never one, of all the clan...
Página 28 - ... rather than as parts of the action. On the contrary, the poem which we have now under our consideration hath no other episodes than such as naturally arise from the subject...
Página 95 - Had reel'd — then hasten all to bed. The mistress sees that lazy Kate The happing coal on kitchen grate Has laid — while master goes throughout, Sees shutters fast, the mastiff out, - The candles safe, the hearths all clear, And nought from thieves or fire to fear ; Then both to bed together creep, And join the general troop of sleep.
Página 174 - He fed on poisons, and they had no power, But were a kind of nutriment; he lived Through that which had been death to many men, And made him friends of mountains: with the stars And the quick Spirit of the Universe He held his dialogues; and they did teach To him the magic of their mysteries ; To him the book of Night was...
Página 158 - ... if she directs her thoughts to pursuits which aspire to serve, and which never fail to elevate. Educating her for the Harem, but calling on her for the practices of the Portico, man expects from his odalisque the firmness of the stoic, and demands from his servant the exercise of those virtues which, placing the elite of his own sex at the head of its muster-roll, give immortality to the master. He tells her "that obscurity is her true glory, insignificance her distinction, ignorance her lot,...
Página 77 - A critic, analysing the poetical character of Milton, says, he has ' sublimity in the highest degree ; beauty in an equal degree ; pathos next to the highest ; perfect character in the conception of Satan, of Adam, and Eve ; fancy, learning, vividness of description, stateliness, decorum. His style is elaborate and powerful, and his versification, with occasional harshness and affectation, superior in variety and harmony to all other blank verse ; it has the effect of a piece of fine music.
Página 27 - THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.