The Children's Miscellany: In which is Included The History of Little Jack, by Thomas Day, EsqJohn Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1797 - 325 páginas |
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... master ; but he was now grown bigger and stronger , and thought he should easily find employment . He therefore fet out upon his travels , walking all day , and inquiring at every farm - house for work . But in this attempt he was ...
... master ; but he was now grown bigger and stronger , and thought he should easily find employment . He therefore fet out upon his travels , walking all day , and inquiring at every farm - house for work . But in this attempt he was ...
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... master of the forge came in to overlook his men , who finding Jack , and hearing his story , began to reproach him as a lazy vagabond , and asked him why he did not work for his living . Jack affured him there was nothing he fo ...
... master of the forge came in to overlook his men , who finding Jack , and hearing his story , began to reproach him as a lazy vagabond , and asked him why he did not work for his living . Jack affured him there was nothing he fo ...
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... master , with more com- posure , told Jack to mind his business , and threat- ened the other boys with punishment if they disturbed him . But a lady who was in company feemed par- ticularly interested about little Jack , and when she ...
... master , with more com- posure , told Jack to mind his business , and threat- ened the other boys with punishment if they disturbed him . But a lady who was in company feemed par- ticularly interested about little Jack , and when she ...
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... lived a young gentleman , the nephew of his mistress , who had loft his parents , and was therefore . brought brought up by his aunt . As Master Willets was 26 THE HISTORY OF great, and his interest in every thing that related ...
... lived a young gentleman , the nephew of his mistress , who had loft his parents , and was therefore . brought brought up by his aunt . As Master Willets was 26 THE HISTORY OF great, and his interest in every thing that related ...
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... Master Willets was fomething younger than Jack , and a very good- natured boy , he foon began to take notice of him , and be much diverted with his company . Jack , indeed , was not undeferving this attention ; for although he could not ...
... Master Willets was fomething younger than Jack , and a very good- natured boy , he foon began to take notice of him , and be much diverted with his company . Jack , indeed , was not undeferving this attention ; for although he could not ...
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Página 193 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 193 - Well done! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he? His fame soon spread around; He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
Página 194 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Página 202 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Página 202 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 196 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
Página 195 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Página 192 - So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Página 198 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 201 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.