Tales of Fancy, Volumen 2H. Colburn & Company, 1820 |
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Página 252 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Página 336 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 428 - I have my dear mother's own authority for saying, th»t, since I was eight years old, she never knew me deviate in a single instance from the strictest veracity ; and whatever I told her, how improbable soever it might seem at first, she would, after looking earnestly in, my face a moment, smilingly declare that she implicitly believed, because her little Biauca had said it!
Página 210 - ... never been seen with a frown upon his brow, nor ever been heard to address a petulant sentence to either boor, squire, man or woman. The deuce is in it, my dear Anne, if, after serving so long an apprenticeship to the art of governing his temper, he may not permit himself, for once, the indulgence of bouncing a little at a half-crazy Viscountess, without danger of incurring universal odium!
Página 208 - ... to which he haJ recourse. * * " When they were gone, my mother sat down, and laughed so immoderately at the recollection of the whole scene, that I could not entirely forbear participating in her unexpected risibility. Yet, I anticipated consequences from what had passed, which she either did not, or would not, foresee. I hinted...
Página 427 - She is, a« nay mother expresses it, " original without being queer -•;" — independent without being self-sufficient ; — and her sacred love of truth is so inseparably blended with every other quality of her nature, that it at once inspires confidence, animates attention, and secures attachment Ah, well may she so enthusiastically reverence the incomparable mother to whom she owes the early development of such invaluable rectitude!
Página 210 - Except to herself, that is a matter of no moment," replied my mother. " Her rancour, if she chuses to harbour any, cannot possibly d® Sir Geoffry the smallest injury. So much of ' the milk of human kindness' is known to abound in his composition, that, if she venture to speak harshly of him, she will be universally scouted. He has now lived several years upon this estate...
Página 211 - ... the pleasure of pouring out one for lim. " ' It will cheer your spirits, my dear," added she, ' which have seemed unusually depressed to night.
Página 214 - Clavering, however, says, that she still would be better any where else ; for that nothing can be more awkward than her occasional attempts to play the part of nurse. She mistakes one medicine for another, bringing him drops when he ought to take powders : if he asks for drink she gives it to him scalding hot ; always forgets which arm was injured ; takes...
Página 206 - Crosby, during this time, remained in patient attendance upon her, administering alternate doses of sympathy and camphor-julep, which, by degrees, so effectually revived her, that she was able to apologize to my mother for the trouble which she had occasioned ; and once again to renew her importunity for leave to see her son. Mr. Crosby being present, we gladly left to him the task of refusing, or the responsibility of complying, with a request, which we had hoped would not have been re-Urged. He...