Rhyme, romance and revery, 517. kötetPartridge and Oakey, 1852 - 314 oldal |
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98. oldal - How am I glutted with conceit of this ! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please ? Resolve me of all ambiguities ? Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, i Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.
54. oldal - twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands How lightly then it flashed along : Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide ! Nought cared this body for wind or weather When Youth and I lived in't together.
54. oldal - With Nature, Hope, and Poesy When I was young! When I was young? — Ah, woeful When! Ah, for the change 'twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er...
199. oldal - tis kindled ne'er can die ; It lives though treachery and slight To quench the constant flame may try.
314. oldal - Some will have attained the important ages of eleven or twelve, and they must have food for the mind befitting that age ; others will have arrived at eight, nine, and ten. But many who are not more than six or seven will, we hope, be learned enough to read some of the books in this " Library," and to suit such, some will be printed in large letters. The " Library" will contain amusing stories, pleasant conversations on a great many interesting and instructive subjects — mostly on the wonderful...
70. oldal - Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then you know, you stand upon Another footing now!" "O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches!
314. oldal - ... of the year a great deal wiser and better than you are now ; and then you will have cause to be glad that you laid out your money in buying " The Library for Little Folks.
106. oldal - Oh, it was not so much to chase the deer Or to brush the dew away, That the baron had left his downy couch, And mounted his courser gray. The baron he loved a maiden bright, Yet she was of lowly race, And he rode to meet her at break of day, As though he had follow'd the chase. The baron he spurr'd his goodly steed, And rode with might and main ; And when he had ridden a mile or two, A deer sprang o'er the plain. Then drew the baron his fatal bow, Swift flew the feathery dart; The arrow it miss'd...
70. oldal - Oh, Nelly Gray! Oh, Nelly Gray! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call, I left my legs, In Badajos's breaches!" "Why then," said she, "you've lost the feet Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms!