The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History, Biography, Poetry, and Romance; Jeux D'esprit, Traditionary Relics, and Essays, with Translations from Approved Authors, כרך 1T. Tegg, 1824 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 23
עמוד 47
... believe he was both . Ay , that will do - go on . Well , he served in the Greys , I don't know how many years , and when he was discharged superannuated , they allowed him to buy his grey mare that he always rode : and how old she was ...
... believe he was both . Ay , that will do - go on . Well , he served in the Greys , I don't know how many years , and when he was discharged superannuated , they allowed him to buy his grey mare that he always rode : and how old she was ...
עמוד 75
... believe some improve- ment would take place during its restoration ; but we found it rising from its ashes like a new phoenix , without the slightest deviation from the form and appearance of its parent . The exception only of one or ...
... believe some improve- ment would take place during its restoration ; but we found it rising from its ashes like a new phoenix , without the slightest deviation from the form and appearance of its parent . The exception only of one or ...
עמוד 104
... Believe you , sir these are your witnesses , These mourners here , who from their carriages Gape at the gaping crowd . A good March wind Were to be prayed for now , to lend their eyes Some decent rheum . The very hireling mute Bears not ...
... Believe you , sir these are your witnesses , These mourners here , who from their carriages Gape at the gaping crowd . A good March wind Were to be prayed for now , to lend their eyes Some decent rheum . The very hireling mute Bears not ...
עמוד 106
... believe that there are constitutions , robust heads , and iron insides , whom scarce any excesses can hurt ; whom brandy ( I have seen them drink it like wine ) , at all events whom wine , taken in ever so plentiful a mea- sure , can do ...
... believe that there are constitutions , robust heads , and iron insides , whom scarce any excesses can hurt ; whom brandy ( I have seen them drink it like wine ) , at all events whom wine , taken in ever so plentiful a mea- sure , can do ...
עמוד 111
... believe the advices to be most prudential ) , in the stage which I have reached , to stop short of that measure , which is suf- ficient to draw on torpor and sleep , the benumbing apo- plectic sleep of the drunkard , is all one as to ...
... believe the advices to be most prudential ) , in the stage which I have reached , to stop short of that measure , which is suf- ficient to draw on torpor and sleep , the benumbing apo- plectic sleep of the drunkard , is all one as to ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 326 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
עמוד 59 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
עמוד 93 - As we sat round the dull light of a lamp in the cabin, that made the gloom more ghastly, every one had his tale of shipwreck and disaster, I was particularly struck with a short one related by the captain.
עמוד 327 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
עמוד 326 - And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war ; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar ; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star ; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe ! They come ! they come ! " And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering...
עמוד 184 - O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the pyramids with fear and wonder When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder...
עמוד 326 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
עמוד 183 - Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like thin ghosts, or disembodied creatures, But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and features. Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's...
עמוד 325 - As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound, the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
עמוד 325 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet...