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Pagina 5
... joy beyond what victory bestows ; Blest country , where these kingly glories shine ; Blest England , if this happiness be thine ! A. Guard what you say ; the patriotic tribe Will sneer and charge you with a bribe . - B . A bribe ? The ...
... joy beyond what victory bestows ; Blest country , where these kingly glories shine ; Blest England , if this happiness be thine ! A. Guard what you say ; the patriotic tribe Will sneer and charge you with a bribe . - B . A bribe ? The ...
Pagina 13
... frisk , Is always happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away ; He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And , feasting on an onion and a crust , We never feel the alacrity and joy , With which TABLE TALK . 13.
... frisk , Is always happy , reign whoever may , And laughs the sense of misery far away ; He drinks his simple beverage with a gust ; And , feasting on an onion and a crust , We never feel the alacrity and joy , With which TABLE TALK . 13.
Pagina 14
William Cowper. We never feel the alacrity and joy , With which he shouts and carols Vive le Roy , Filled with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king say - Slave , be free . Thus happiness depends , as nature shows ...
William Cowper. We never feel the alacrity and joy , With which he shouts and carols Vive le Roy , Filled with as much true merriment and glee , As if he heard his king say - Slave , be free . Thus happiness depends , as nature shows ...
Pagina 15
... joy the good she finds ; Courage in arms , and ever prompt to show His manly forehead to the fiercest foe ; Glorious in war , but for the sake of peace , His spirits rising as his toils increase , Guards well what arts and industry have ...
... joy the good she finds ; Courage in arms , and ever prompt to show His manly forehead to the fiercest foe ; Glorious in war , but for the sake of peace , His spirits rising as his toils increase , Guards well what arts and industry have ...
Pagina 22
... joys , Nor is it yet despondence and dismay Will win her visits or engage her stay ; Prayer only , and the penitential tear , Can call her smiling down , and fix her here . But when a country ( one that I could name ) In prostitution ...
... joys , Nor is it yet despondence and dismay Will win her visits or engage her stay ; Prayer only , and the penitential tear , Can call her smiling down , and fix her here . But when a country ( one that I could name ) In prostitution ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 423 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!
Pagina 417 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew. Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, 'The wine is left behind!' ' Good lack,' quoth he — ' yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword, When I do exercise.
Pagina 419 - So, Fair and softly ! John he cried ; But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Pagina 298 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Pagina 322 - Ye winds ! that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? Oh, tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Pagina 431 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown : No traveller ever reached that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briars in his road.
Pagina 304 - a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.
Pagina 375 - All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart! / Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind. Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings Tarnish all your boasted powers, Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! PITY FOR POOR AFRICANS.
Pagina 320 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 414 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.