The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: With an Account of Some Eminent People Once Resident There

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T. F. Unwin, 1908 - 445 עמודים
 

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עמוד 394 - I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill. Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and corn-fields, and the abodes of men Scattered at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
עמוד 108 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
עמוד 255 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
עמוד 109 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come,- and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
עמוד 176 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their...
עמוד 165 - The successors of Charles V. may disdain their brethren of England: but the romance of 'Tom Jones,' that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the ^Imperial Eagle of Austria.
עמוד 57 - Fallen beneath the dockyard strokes, Have rotted on the briny seas ; She would weep that her wild bees Sang not to her — strange ! that honey Can't be got without hard money ! So it is : yet let us sing, Honour to the old bow-string!
עמוד 391 - ... knew that he was not strong enough to fight *»»«»» with any hope of success, and that it was dangerous even to approach him, he advanced to the scene of action, and with a blush of rage, tears in his eyes, and a voice trembling between terror and indignation, asked very humbly if *»««»# would be pleased to tell him " how many stripes he meant to inflict?" — " Why," returned the executioner, " you little rascal, what is that to you?" — "Because if you please, " said Byron, holding...
עמוד 390 - While Lord Byron and Mr. Peel were at Harrow together, a tyrant some few years older, whose name was *»**•*, claimed a right to fag little Peel, which claim (whether rightly or wrongly, I know not) Peel resisted. His resistance, however, was in vain : — * * * • * * not only subdued him, but determined also to punish the refractory slave; and proceeded forthwith to put this determination in practice, by inflicting a kind of bastinado on the inner fleshy side of the boy's arm, which, during...
עמוד 309 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time?

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