Original Ballads by Living Authors, 1850Henry Thompson J. Masters, 1850 - 256 עמודים |
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Original Ballads by Living Authors, 1850 (1850) <span dir=ltr>Henry Thompson</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2008 |
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ALDERSGATE STREET ALPHEUS FELCH Anaxander Aristomenes art thou ballad banner bend beneath Bessie Bell blessed blood bold Braithwell brave breast brow child crown dame dark dead death Dorian lord doth dwell E. A. FREEMAN E'en England's fair faith father fear fight Frocester gallant gaze gleaming glorious glory grace grey hall hand hast hath head hear heard heart heaven holy hour Hurrah JOSEPH MASTERS King knee kneel lady land Lathom light lips looked LORD lordly maid maiden Medes neath never o'er pale passed pray prayer pride pursuivant Queen rest ride round royal rushing Saint Saint Chad shade shield shine shout sight slain sleep smile song soul Spartan spear spirit stand stood sweet sword tears tell thee thine thou tree Twas unto voice WALTER LANGLEY wave weary ween weep wild word young youth
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עמוד 222 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffered With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
עמוד 178 - ... the highest festival of the Goths. There was metal yet more attractive, and younger hearts, whose welcome, if less loud, was as sincere as that of the jolly Udaller.
עמוד 177 - Bessie Bell I lo'ed yestreen, And thocht I ne'er could alter ; But Mary Gray's twa pawky een Gar'd a' my fancy falter. Bessie's hair's like a lint-tap, She smiles like a May mornin', When Phoebus starts frae Thetis
עמוד 200 - Then come with me to his house. We must find him, though it is so early ! " It was now four, and the Clerk of the Crown lived in Chancery Lane. There was no hackney coach, and they almost ran. The Clerk of the Crown had a country house, and meaning to have a long holiday, he was at that moment .stepping into his gig, to go to his villa. Astonished at the visit of the Under-Secretary at such an hour, he was still more so at his business.
עמוד 200 - It was brought. Sir Evan sent to the Post Office for the trustiest and fleetest express, and the reprieve reached York at the moment the unhappy people were ascending the cart.
עמוד 200 - A reprieve to be sent to York for the coiners ordered for execution the next day." It struck him that he had had no return to his order to send the reprieve ; and he searched the minutes, but could not find it. In alarm he went to the house of the chief clerk, who lived in...
עמוד 200 - You are scarcely awake," said Sir Evan, il recollect yourself; it must have been sent." The clerk said that he now recollected he had sent it to the clerk of the crown, whose business it was to forward it to York. " Good," said Sir Evan, ''but have you his receipt and certificate that it is gone?
עמוד 227 - Through the air rings shout and outcry — through the streets a red tide pours, — To the booming of the cannon the ancient city roars : For wilder than the tempest is human passion's strife, And deadlier than the elements the waste of human life : No breathing time for pity ; 'tis the long stern tug of might: The war of poor against the rich, and both against the right : Each street and lane the artillery sweeps, — the rifle enfilades, — With stone and bar, with beam and spar, they pile the...
עמוד 170 - But that which chiefly broke his peace, was the death of his daughter Claypole; who had been always his greatest joy, and who, in her sickness, which was of a nature the physicians knew not how to deal with, had several conferences with him, which exceedingly perplexed him.
עמוד 228 - At the Rue d'Antoine the Garde Mobile have the better of the day" — "Some succour to the Port au Ble — they scarce can hold their own" — "Help, help ! or all is over at the Barriere du Trone!