The Shirburnian, Volumen 1,Número 1James Ellis, 1859 |
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... soon , may be , to sink and be forgotten . She is the property of a few Plymouth men , who have long burned to explore the lately - discovered South America ; the tales of whose wonders were more like exaggerated dreams than anything ...
... soon , may be , to sink and be forgotten . She is the property of a few Plymouth men , who have long burned to explore the lately - discovered South America ; the tales of whose wonders were more like exaggerated dreams than anything ...
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... Soon our attention is taken off from eyeing those around us , by cries of " Look , look , they are off " ; which announcement , we are inclined to believe , means that the first hurdle - race has commenced . Then all is attention and ...
... Soon our attention is taken off from eyeing those around us , by cries of " Look , look , they are off " ; which announcement , we are inclined to believe , means that the first hurdle - race has commenced . Then all is attention and ...
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... soon thins their numbers ; some leave off at the half - mile , and others drop off one by one , until only three are left , who come pluckily in half - dead with exhaustion , and most awfully winded . When everything is over , we ...
... soon thins their numbers ; some leave off at the half - mile , and others drop off one by one , until only three are left , who come pluckily in half - dead with exhaustion , and most awfully winded . When everything is over , we ...
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... soon came in sight of the well - remembered house and grounds where , as a child and boy , ( gentle reader , I was now twenty , ) I had spent so many pleasant hours . Ah , thought I , I will give my kind old Aunt a surprise , and ...
... soon came in sight of the well - remembered house and grounds where , as a child and boy , ( gentle reader , I was now twenty , ) I had spent so many pleasant hours . Ah , thought I , I will give my kind old Aunt a surprise , and ...
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... soon sent up again , and I found that my afternoon's adventure had by no means taken away my appetite . My Uncle laughed most heartily at my story , at the same time remarking that the best thing would be to call and explain matters , a ...
... soon sent up again , and I found that my afternoon's adventure had by no means taken away my appetite . My Uncle laughed most heartily at my story , at the same time remarking that the best thing would be to call and explain matters , a ...
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Página 40 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 45 - In the brier'd dell below; Hark! the death-owl loud doth sing To the nightmares, as they go: My love is dead, Gone to his death-bed All under the willow-tree.
Página 206 - Change and the Mall* — to mingle • " I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 135 - Three children sliding on the ice, Upon a summer's day, It so fell out, they all fell in, The rest they ran away.
Página 17 - Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Página 8 - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine...
Página 212 - And noblest, when she lifted up her eyes. However marr'd, of more than twice her years, Seam'd with an ancient swordcut on the cheek, And bruised and bronzed, she lifted up her eyes And loved him, with that love which was her doom.
Página 198 - That savours so much of relationship, That nothing occurs amiss; But a Cousin's lip. if you once unite With yours, in the quietest way, Instead of sleeping a wink that night, You'll be dreaming the following day. And people think it no harm, Tom, With a Cousin to hear you talk ; And no one feels any alarm, Tom, At a quiet, cousinly walk , — But, Tom, you'll soon find...
Página 211 - The great and guilty love he bare the Queen, In battle with the love he bare his lord, Had marred his face, and marked it ere his time. Another sinning on such heights with one, The flower of all the west and all the world, Had been the sleeker for it: but in him His mood was often like a fiend, and rose And drove him into wastes and solitudes For agony, who was yet a living soul.
Página 119 - It is a kind and accommodating spirit at which we must aim. When the two goats met on the bridge which was too narrow to allow them either to pass each other, or to return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over him, was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.