Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 18 |
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... seen the ballad of Chevy Chase at New Galloway , and was quite enrap- tured with it . About this time , and for years after , I spent every sixpence that friends or strangers gave me on ballads and penny histories . I carried bundles of ...
... seen the ballad of Chevy Chase at New Galloway , and was quite enrap- tured with it . About this time , and for years after , I spent every sixpence that friends or strangers gave me on ballads and penny histories . I carried bundles of ...
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... seen . He was then reading Livy , and learning Greek . By help of his book I mastered the letters ; but I saw the sense of the Latin rules in a very indistinct manner . Some boy lent me an old Corderius , and a friend made me a present ...
... seen . He was then reading Livy , and learning Greek . By help of his book I mastered the letters ; but I saw the sense of the Latin rules in a very indistinct manner . Some boy lent me an old Corderius , and a friend made me a present ...
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... seen his poems before . ' During this summer , my friend M'Harg being in Edinburgh , employed as a hawker , or itinerant dealer in tea and other articles , described my situation to James Kinnear , a journeyman printer , a very ...
... seen his poems before . ' During this summer , my friend M'Harg being in Edinburgh , employed as a hawker , or itinerant dealer in tea and other articles , described my situation to James Kinnear , a journeyman printer , a very ...
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... seen on the apparently interminable wastes ; journeying was performed only on horseback during the day , while repose was enjoyed in tents pitched for the night ; a constant outlook must be kept for prowling wild beasts , or the not ...
... seen on the apparently interminable wastes ; journeying was performed only on horseback during the day , while repose was enjoyed in tents pitched for the night ; a constant outlook must be kept for prowling wild beasts , or the not ...
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... seen in Missouri , although somewhat touched with the awkward bashfulness and prudery which generally charac- terise the prairie maidens . They had lost their mother when young , and having no companions out of the domestic circle , and ...
... seen in Missouri , although somewhat touched with the awkward bashfulness and prudery which generally charac- terise the prairie maidens . They had lost their mother when young , and having no companions out of the domestic circle , and ...
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Page 12 - TO THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET LEIGH HUNT Green little' vaulter in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June — Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass; O sweet and tiny cousins, that belong, One to the fields, the other to the hearth...
Page 19 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring...
Page 11 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Page 24 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstasy! —Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day ! 1 Mrs.
Page 2 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 12 - In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and. in the midst, — like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, — the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, — the far-famed "Venice of the Aztecs.
Page 1 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king. All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants, belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice; Man for thee does sow and plow; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Page 9 - COME, take up your hats, and away let us haste To the Butterfly's ball, and the Grasshopper's feast; The trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, And the revels are now only waiting for you.
Page 20 - ALL upstarts, insolent in place, Remind us of their vulgar race. As in the sunshine of the morn A Butterfly, but newly born, Sat proudly perking on a rose, With pert conceit his bosom glows; His wings, 'all glorious to behold, Bedrop'd with azure, jet, and gold, Wide he displays; the spangled dew Reflects his eyes and various hue.