La Belle assemblée: or, Bell's court and fashionable magazine, Τόμος 1

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J. Bell, 1810
 

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Σελίδα 246 - E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread...
Σελίδα 246 - With head up-raised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Σελίδα 246 - And seldom was a snood amid Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care; And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind.
Σελίδα 246 - But scarce again his horn he wound, When lo ! forth starting at the sound. From underneath an aged oak, That slanted from the islet rock, A Damsel guider of its way, A little skiff shot to the bay, That round the promontory steep Led its deep line in graceful sweep, Eddying, in almost viewless wave, The weeping willow twig to lave, And kiss, with whispering sound and slow The beach of pebbles bright as snow.
Σελίδα 246 - And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face...
Σελίδα 25 - Mr. Hale, who thereupon went into another room, and, shutting the door, fell on his knees, and prayed earnestly to God, both for his friend that he might be restored to life again, and that...
Σελίδα 26 - That I suffer not myself to be prepossessed with any judgment at all, till the whole business and both parties be heard. 7. That I never engage myself in the beginning of any cause, but reserve myself unprejudiced till the whole be heard.
Σελίδα 246 - And stood conceal'd amid the brake, To view this Lady of the Lake. The maiden paused, as if again She thought to catch the distant strain. With head upraised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent...
Σελίδα 71 - Arabs. His bed was the ground ; his food rice ; his beverage water; his luxury a pipe and coffee.
Σελίδα 26 - ... to which the gentleman answered, that he never sold his venison, and that he had done nothing to him which he did not do to every judge that had gone that circuit, which was confirmed by several gentlemen then present : but all would not do, for the lord chief baron had learned from Solomon, that " a gift perverteth the ways of judgment...

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