Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. YoungFrancis Young (F.R.G.S.) 1870 |
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Σελίδα 39
... poor basket - maker , and whose livelihood de- pended on working up the flags of those reeds in a man- ner peculiar to himself , the gentleman took advantage of a very high wind , and commanded his servants to burn down the barrier ...
... poor basket - maker , and whose livelihood de- pended on working up the flags of those reeds in a man- ner peculiar to himself , the gentleman took advantage of a very high wind , and commanded his servants to burn down the barrier ...
Σελίδα 40
... poor sharer of his calamity , and with an un- sinewed , apprehensive , unmanly sneakingness of mien , gave up the post of honour , and made a leader of the very man whom he had thought it a disgrace to 40 SIXTH EXCELSIOR READER .
... poor sharer of his calamity , and with an un- sinewed , apprehensive , unmanly sneakingness of mien , gave up the post of honour , and made a leader of the very man whom he had thought it a disgrace to 40 SIXTH EXCELSIOR READER .
Σελίδα 41
... poor basket - maker had his hands full of employment ; and the savages observing one quite idle , while the other was so busy in their service , took up arms in behalf of natural justice , and began to lay on arguments in favour of ...
... poor basket - maker had his hands full of employment ; and the savages observing one quite idle , while the other was so busy in their service , took up arms in behalf of natural justice , and began to lay on arguments in favour of ...
Σελίδα 53
... poor fellow whom I knew when a boy , dressed in a sailor's jacket , and begging at one of the outlets of the town , with a wooden leg . I knew him to be honest and industrious when in the country , and was curious to learn what had ...
... poor fellow whom I knew when a boy , dressed in a sailor's jacket , and begging at one of the outlets of the town , with a wooden leg . I knew him to be honest and industrious when in the country , and was curious to learn what had ...
Σελίδα 55
... poor , and sent up to London , to Newgate , in order to be transported as a vagabond . 66 ' People may say this and that of being in jail ; but , for my part , I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in in all my life . I had ...
... poor , and sent up to London , to Newgate , in order to be transported as a vagabond . 66 ' People may say this and that of being in jail ; but , for my part , I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in in all my life . I had ...
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Σελίδα 25 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Σελίδα 36 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; 'Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; 'Speed...
Σελίδα 37 - So we were left galloping, Joris and I, Past Looz and past Tongres, no cloud in the sky; The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh, 'Neath our feet broke the brittle, bright stubble like chaff; Till over by Dalhem a dome-spire sprang white, And "Gallop," gasped Joris, "for Aix is in sight!
Σελίδα 36 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Σελίδα 226 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture of divine.
Σελίδα 97 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the Bard begun : A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son...
Σελίδα 37 - 4. At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past ; And I saw my stout galloper, Roland, at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray : 5.
Σελίδα 37 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Σελίδα 146 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Σελίδα 227 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground I Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listening now.