John Gay's London Illustrated from the Poetry of the TimeHarvard University Press, 1928 - 459 σελίδες No detailed description available for "John Gay's London". |
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John Gay's London: Illustrated from the Poetry of the Time William Henry Irving Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1968 |
John Gay's London: Illustrated from the Poetry of the Time William Henry Irving Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 1928 |
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Σελίδα 373 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Σελίδα 358 - At length they all to mery London came, To mery London, my most kyndly nurse, That to me gave this lifes first native sourse ; Though from another place I take my name, 130 An house of auncient fame.
Σελίδα 102 - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter...
Σελίδα 373 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied, and unheard, where misery moans; Where sickness pines; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.
Σελίδα 103 - ... sanded floor that grits beneath the tread; The humid wall with paltry pictures spread — The Royal Game of Goose was there in view And the Twelve Rules the Royal Martyr drew; The seasons, fram'd with listing, found a place, And brave Prince William show'd his lamp-black face.
Σελίδα 100 - He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; To see those joys the sons of pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Σελίδα 102 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Σελίδα 359 - TO LONDON. FROM the dull confines of the drooping west, To see the day spring from the pregnant east, Ravisht in spirit, I come, nay more, I flie To thee, blest place of my nativitie ! Thus, thus with hallowed foot I touch the ground, With thousand blessings by thy fortune crown'd. O fruitful genius'!
Σελίδα 57 - To fancy they could live a year! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme.
Σελίδα 392 - When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town...