The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a Selection of the Most Amusing and Interesting Articles and Anecdotes that Have Appeared in the Magazines, Newspapers, and Other Daily and Periodical Journals, from the Year 1700, to the Present Time, Band 2Matthew Iley, and sold, 1820 |
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... attend her in her last moments , that they left her to fetch the ecclesiastic , by which means this horrible work was discovered . The criminals are arrested ; they express neither fear nor repentance ; they believe they have acted by a ...
... attend her in her last moments , that they left her to fetch the ecclesiastic , by which means this horrible work was discovered . The criminals are arrested ; they express neither fear nor repentance ; they believe they have acted by a ...
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... attend daily for nine days , at the same place , to repeat the dose ; that witness attended with her on the se- cond morning , when she complained to the doc- tress that she apprehended the medicine was too strong , as it had affected ...
... attend daily for nine days , at the same place , to repeat the dose ; that witness attended with her on the se- cond morning , when she complained to the doc- tress that she apprehended the medicine was too strong , as it had affected ...
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... attended by a marshalman , and pledged himself to the beadle " that the woman should be taken care of ; " but as soon as the beadle went away , she was merely moved a few paces farther into the parish of St. Magnus , and there left with ...
... attended by a marshalman , and pledged himself to the beadle " that the woman should be taken care of ; " but as soon as the beadle went away , she was merely moved a few paces farther into the parish of St. Magnus , and there left with ...
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... attend . The Coroner said it was a cruel piece of busi- ness , to say the least of it , and he would not hesitate to say , that the watchmen had behaved in the most criminal manner . Indeed , this poor woman seemed to have been ...
... attend . The Coroner said it was a cruel piece of busi- ness , to say the least of it , and he would not hesitate to say , that the watchmen had behaved in the most criminal manner . Indeed , this poor woman seemed to have been ...
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... attended to , when the birds cease to build , and the wild cherries to ripen . Queen Mary and the Cruickston Yew . To the Editor of a Glasgow Paper . - Sir , In your Chronicle of Saturday last , I observe the following paragraph ...
... attended to , when the birds cease to build , and the wild cherries to ripen . Queen Mary and the Cruickston Yew . To the Editor of a Glasgow Paper . - Sir , In your Chronicle of Saturday last , I observe the following paragraph ...
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Abbas Mirza Abbé Raynal appear Ashford attended beautiful Blood-hounds boat body breast Britons called Catania character Charles Fox church Court cropsick dear death deceased Derry devil dreadful dress Dublin England Epigram eyes fear feet fortune Galliard gave gentleman give Gordier hand happy head heart honour hope horse hour husband immediately inches is-I John jury King lately Laugh length letter Little Belt live London Lord Majesty married master mind morning murder never night o'er occasion paper Parga person Peter Bell poor present Printer prisoner Quia Pei R. B. SHERIDAN round Royal Scotland sent servant ship taken tell thee thing Thomas thou thought tion took town tree wear Weep wife woman young lady youth Zator Zongobia
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Seite 132 - And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now. And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
Seite 132 - Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Seite 350 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his...
Seite 359 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
Seite 266 - The flash of Wit, the bright Intelligence, The beam of Song, the blaze of Eloquence, Set with their Sun, but still have left behind The enduring produce of immortal Mind ; Fruits of a genial morn, and glorious noon, A deathless part of him who died too soon.
Seite 133 - Here is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath : But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue that haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away, Spark of that flame perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth.
Seite 51 - Is it a fiend that to a stake Of fire his desperate self is tethering ? Or stubborn spirit doomed to yell In solitary ward or cell, Ten thousand miles from all his brethren.
Seite 265 - WHEN the last sunshine of expiring day In summer's twilight weeps itself away, Who hath not felt the softness of the hour Sink on the heart, as dew along the flower? With a pure feeling which absorbs and awes While nature makes that melancholy pause, Her breathing moment on the bridge where Time Of light and darkness forms an arch sublime.
Seite 352 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
Seite 349 - ... that comes from abroad or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...