Prose and Verse, Volúmenes1-2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... according to the fable , I kept along on my journey , with my bundle of sticks , -i . e . my arms and legs . Between ourselves it would have been " extremely inconvenient , " as I once heard the opium - eater declare , to pay the debt ...
... according to the fable , I kept along on my journey , with my bundle of sticks , -i . e . my arms and legs . Between ourselves it would have been " extremely inconvenient , " as I once heard the opium - eater declare , to pay the debt ...
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... according to Hudibras , seem 66 as if intended For nothing else but to be mended . " To confess the truth , my vanity pricked up its ears a little at the proposition of my publisher . There is something vastly flat- tering in the idea ...
... according to Hudibras , seem 66 as if intended For nothing else but to be mended . " To confess the truth , my vanity pricked up its ears a little at the proposition of my publisher . There is something vastly flat- tering in the idea ...
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... longevity with the imputed enormous consumption of ardent spirits beyond the Tweed . Scotia , according to the evidence of ces . Mr. Buckingham's committee , is an especially drouthie bodie , LITERARY REMINISCENCES . 59 NO II.
... longevity with the imputed enormous consumption of ardent spirits beyond the Tweed . Scotia , according to the evidence of ces . Mr. Buckingham's committee , is an especially drouthie bodie , LITERARY REMINISCENCES . 59 NO II.
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... according to temperance theories , by spontaneous combustion . On the contrary , the canny north- erns are noted for soundness of constitution and clearness of head , with such a strong principle of vitality as to justify the poetical ...
... according to temperance theories , by spontaneous combustion . On the contrary , the canny north- erns are noted for soundness of constitution and clearness of head , with such a strong principle of vitality as to justify the poetical ...
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... according to the popular notion I ought to have been quite up in my stirrups , if not standing on the saddle , at thus seeing myself , for the first strange time , set up in type . Memory recalls , however , but a very moderate share of ...
... according to the popular notion I ought to have been quite up in my stirrups , if not standing on the saddle , at thus seeing myself , for the first strange time , set up in type . Memory recalls , however , but a very moderate share of ...
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Página 34 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy: To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy ! THOMAS HOOD.
Página 34 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! T remember.
Página 26 - Then down I cast me on my face, And first began to weep, For I knew my secret then was one That earth refused to keep : Or land or sea, though he should be Ten thousand fathoms deep.
Página 26 - All night I lay in agony, From weary chime to chime; With one besetting horrid hint That racked me all the time — A mighty yearning, like the first Fierce impulse unto crime — "One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave! Stronger and stronger every pulse Did that temptation crave — Still urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave!
Página 23 - And, long since then, of bloody men Whose deeds tradition saves; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves ; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod...
Página 210 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Página 209 - The wounds I might have healed ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Página 134 - For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! PART III.
Página 180 - Ines" had always, for me, an inexpressible charm: O saw ye not fair Ines! She's gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down, And rob the world of rest...