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... father in Bishopsgate - street to send him , with a quantity of black and grey cloth , twenty gross of black Tacks ... father's blunder , was old by his friend , in a jocose strain , to erder a gross of warming -pans , and see whether ...
... father in Bishopsgate - street to send him , with a quantity of black and grey cloth , twenty gross of black Tacks ... father's blunder , was old by his friend , in a jocose strain , to erder a gross of warming -pans , and see whether ...
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... father never mentioned his name , but my mother would sometimes tell me that he had ruined the family . That he spent much , I know ; but I am inclined to think , that his undutiful conduct occasioned my great - grandfather to bequeath ...
... father never mentioned his name , but my mother would sometimes tell me that he had ruined the family . That he spent much , I know ; but I am inclined to think , that his undutiful conduct occasioned my great - grandfather to bequeath ...
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... father returned from sea in 1764. He Las been at the siege of the Havannah ; and eugh he received more than a hundred pounds le prize money , and his wages were consider- ake : yet , as he had not acquired any strict habits of economy ...
... father returned from sea in 1764. He Las been at the siege of the Havannah ; and eugh he received more than a hundred pounds le prize money , and his wages were consider- ake : yet , as he had not acquired any strict habits of economy ...
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... father . But there were still some whose abode could not be discovered , and others , on whom to press the taking back of eight shillings would neither be decent nor respectful : even from these I ventured to flatter myself that I ...
... father . But there were still some whose abode could not be discovered , and others , on whom to press the taking back of eight shillings would neither be decent nor respectful : even from these I ventured to flatter myself that I ...
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... father , Edmund of Langley , as . duke of York ) repaid Henry IV.'s generous and unconditional pardon , by his heroic con- duct in the glorious field of Agincourt , and country with his blood . where he sealed his devotion to his king ...
... father , Edmund of Langley , as . duke of York ) repaid Henry IV.'s generous and unconditional pardon , by his heroic con- duct in the glorious field of Agincourt , and country with his blood . where he sealed his devotion to his king ...
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Page 37 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 385 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 207 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Page 715 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 549 - Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come ! Where the violets lie may be now your home. Ye of the rose-cheek and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly, With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous lay, Come forth to the sunshine, I may not stay...
Page 729 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Page 729 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among -the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 11 - And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
Page 187 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 333 - ... for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.