Temple Bar, Volume 7Ward and Lock, 1862 |
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... light - hearted , heedless lad of seventeen , newly escaped for a brief interval from the care of his pastors and masters . The lad had come to London on a Christmas visit to his father's sister , a good - natured widow , with a great ...
... light - hearted , heedless lad of seventeen , newly escaped for a brief interval from the care of his pastors and masters . The lad had come to London on a Christmas visit to his father's sister , a good - natured widow , with a great ...
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... light of a Rush Candle , you gaze only on Emaciated Figures , while out of the Dark Shadows issue faint but dismal Groans . Some are here condemned to linger for Life ; yet have I known convicted Creatures in this Rat's hole as merry as ...
... light of a Rush Candle , you gaze only on Emaciated Figures , while out of the Dark Shadows issue faint but dismal Groans . Some are here condemned to linger for Life ; yet have I known convicted Creatures in this Rat's hole as merry as ...
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... Light and Air , and immured in Regions fit only to be Receptacles for the Dead . Under the Hall of Justice is likewise the Torture Chamber , where Miserable Creatures , at the bidding of their Barbarous Judges , undergo a variety of ...
... Light and Air , and immured in Regions fit only to be Receptacles for the Dead . Under the Hall of Justice is likewise the Torture Chamber , where Miserable Creatures , at the bidding of their Barbarous Judges , undergo a variety of ...
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... light gauzy Coats of a pretty little Dancing - girl , that was playing a Dryad in the Wood where Orpheus charms the Beast , caught Fire . I think ' twas the Candle fell out of the Moon - box , and so on to her Drapery ; but , at all ...
... light gauzy Coats of a pretty little Dancing - girl , that was playing a Dryad in the Wood where Orpheus charms the Beast , caught Fire . I think ' twas the Candle fell out of the Moon - box , and so on to her Drapery ; but , at all ...
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... light of the fire ; and at other times they would set the little round table , lighted up by a farthing dip placed in an iron candlestick , clean and bright with good furbishing , close to me , so that I could read more comfortably . I ...
... light of the fire ; and at other times they would set the little round table , lighted up by a farthing dip placed in an iron candlestick , clean and bright with good furbishing , close to me , so that I could read more comfortably . I ...
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Page 381 - Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Page 344 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 " Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, " To be exalted thus;" " Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply,
Page 581 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 95 - All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Page 581 - Sermons, with his own comick figure, from a painting by Reynolds, at the head of them ? They are in the style I think most proper for the pulpit, and show a strong imagination and a sensible heart ; but you see him often tottering on the verge of laughter, and ready to throw his periwig in the face of the audience.
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Page 79 - And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Such are not your decrees ; but so designed, The sanction leaves a lasting peace behind, Like your own soul serene, a pattern of your mind.
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Page 80 - ... years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught ; The wise, for cure, on exercise depend ; God never made his work, for man to mend. The tree of knowledge, once in Eden placed, Was easy found, but was forbid the taste : Oh, had our grandsire walk'd without his wife, He first had sought the better plant of life ! Now both are lost : yet, wandering in the dark, Physicians, for the tree, have found the bark : They, labouring for relief of...
Page 384 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.