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Page 255 - O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is...
Page 224 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Page 245 - Majesty's navy : (1.) Death: (2.) Penal servitude : (3.) Dismissal with disgrace from her Majesty's service : (4.) Imprisonment or corporal punishment : (5.) Dismissal from her Majesty's service : (6.) Forfeiture of seniority as an officer for a specified time, or otherwise : (7.) Dismissal from the ship to which the offender belongs : (8.) Severe reprimand, or reprimand : (9.) Disrating a subordinate or petty officer : (10.) Forfeiture of pay, head money, bounty, salvage, prize money, and allowances...
Page 271 - This sounds too bombast and too romantic to one that has not seen it, too cold for one that has. If I could send you my letter post between two lovely tempests that echoed each other's wrath, you might have some idea of this noble roaring scene, as you were reading it.
Page 443 - That the remains presented no appearance of disease or of violent injury inflicted during life, with the exception of a stab in the space between the third and fourth ribs on the left side of the chest. This stab was in a situation to penetrate the heart and to cause death. It had the characters of a stab inflicted on a person, either living or only recently dead. 4. That these remains had not been dissected or used for the purposes of anatomy. All those parts of...
Page 271 - ... round a prodigious mountain, and surrounded with others, all shagged with hanging woods, obscured with pines, or lost in clouds! Below, a torrent breaking through cliffs, and tumbling through fragments of rocks! Sheets of cascades forcing their silver speed down channelled precipices, and hasting into the roughened river at the bottom! Now and then an old foot-bridge, with a broken rail, a leaning cross, a cottage, or the ruin of an hermitage! This sounds too bombast and too romantic to one that...
Page 188 - ... opinion. Then tie it up tight with a small piece of tape, That the gravy and other things may not escape. A meal paste, rather stiff, should be laid on the breast, And some whited brown paper should cover the rest. Fifteen minutes, at least, ere the swan you take down. Pull the paste off the bird, that the breast may get brown.
Page 91 - A few days before the decease of his wife, and while he was encompassed with many infirmities, he told me that, on reviewing his past life, he saw that he had done many things which he ought not to have done, and had left undone many things which he ought to have done...
Page 271 - But the road, West, the road ! winding round a prodigious mountain, and surrounded with others, all shagged with hanging woods, obscured with pines, or lost in clouds ! Below, a torrent breaking through cliffs, and tumbling through fragments of rocks ! Sheets of cascades forcing their silver speed down channelled precipices, and hasting into the roughened river at the bottom ! Now and then an old foot-bridge, with a broken rail, a leaning cross, a cottage, or the ruin of an hermitage...
Page 188 - August, when collected in a small stew or pond, the number annually varying from fifty to seventy, and many of them belonging to private individuals," they begin to feed immediately, being provided with as much barley as they can eat, and are usually ready for killing early in November. They vary in weight, some reaching to twentyeight pounds.