Elphinstone. [A novel.], Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1841 |
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Pagina 108 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Pagina 103 - O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Pagina 175 - Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe, Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed virgin steal a tear...
Pagina 97 - Though thy clime Be fickle, and thy year most part deform 'd With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's...
Pagina 138 - Fe' che seguace, ahi lassa! gli divenni : Fe' d' ogni cavalier, d' ogni donzello Parermi il duca d'Albania più bello. vili. Perché egli mostrò amarmi più che molto, Io ad amar lui con tutto il cor mi mossi. Ben s' ode il ragionar, si vede il volto; Ma dentro il petto mal giudicar puossi.
Pagina 31 - No, sure we're such friends, So much one man, that our affections too Must be united, and the same as we are. Pol. I dote upon Monimia.
Pagina 89 - Tutti gli altri animai che sono in terra, o che vivon quieti e stanno in pace, o se vengono a rissa e si fan guerra, alla femina il maschio non la face: l'orsa con l'orso al bosco sicura erra, la leonessa appresso il leon giace; col lupo vive la lupa sicura, né la iuvenca ha del torci paura.
Pagina 119 - No sooner had Mr. Lyndsay seen Miss St. Clair safe within the castle walls, than he instantly retraced his steps, with the intention of returning to the summer-house, for the purpose of extricating her, if possible, from the mysterious thraldom in which she seemed to be held by...
Pagina 55 - twas held fit only for those to drink of them who were used to carry their legs in their hands, their eyes upon their noses, and an Almanack in their bones: but now they go down every one's throat both young and old like milk.
Pagina 55 - ... twas held fit only for those to drink who were used to carry their legs in their hands, their eyes upon their noses, and an almanac in their bones ; but now they go down every one's throat, both young and old, like milk.