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... walks on spindle legs , With bones as brittle , sir , as eggs ; His body , flexible and limber , And headed with a knob of timber ; A being frantic and unquiet , And very fond of beef and riot ; Rapacious , lustful , rough , and martial ...
... walks on spindle legs , With bones as brittle , sir , as eggs ; His body , flexible and limber , And headed with a knob of timber ; A being frantic and unquiet , And very fond of beef and riot ; Rapacious , lustful , rough , and martial ...
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... walking with me in the fields , he saw a very odd - coloured butterfly just before us . I observed that he immediately changed colour , like a man that is surprised with a piece of good luck ; and telling me that it was what he had ...
... walking with me in the fields , he saw a very odd - coloured butterfly just before us . I observed that he immediately changed colour , like a man that is surprised with a piece of good luck ; and telling me that it was what he had ...
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... walk erect , and their forelegs seldom touch the ground , except in the case of piccan- ninies . These little creatures crawl on the ground , are much paler when born , and are then perfectly helpless ; and have no hair except on their ...
... walk erect , and their forelegs seldom touch the ground , except in the case of piccan- ninies . These little creatures crawl on the ground , are much paler when born , and are then perfectly helpless ; and have no hair except on their ...
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... walks on the soles of its fore - feet , but on the knuckles of the toes of those feet ; and those toes are doubled up like the closed fist of a man . This must be a painful position ; and , to relieve itself , the animal catches hold of ...
... walks on the soles of its fore - feet , but on the knuckles of the toes of those feet ; and those toes are doubled up like the closed fist of a man . This must be a painful position ; and , to relieve itself , the animal catches hold of ...
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... Walks of Cowper " t a figure of Beau , from the BEAU . * It may interest the reader , who does not dive deep into liter- ary curiosities , to refer to the original edition of Hayley's " Cowper " ( 4to , 1803 , vol . i . p . 314 ) ...
... Walks of Cowper " t a figure of Beau , from the BEAU . * It may interest the reader , who does not dive deep into liter- ary curiosities , to refer to the original edition of Hayley's " Cowper " ( 4to , 1803 , vol . i . p . 314 ) ...
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Seite 199 - CHILD'S STORY. (WRITTEN FOR, AND INSCRIBED TO, w. M. THE YOUNGER.) i. HAMELIN Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city ; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side ; A pleasanter spot you never spied ; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity.
Seite 199 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Seite 207 - An' bleak December's winds ensuin', Baith snell and keen! Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste An' weary winter comin' fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, Till, crash!
Seite 216 - Bess had a courage and confidence that made him tame from the beginning. (I always admitted them into the parlour after supper, when, the carpet affording their feet a firm hold, they .would frisk, and bound, and play a thousand gambols, in which Bess, . being remarkably strong and fearless, was always superior to the rest, and proved himself the Vestris of the party.
Seite 208 - And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised ^joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I backward cast my ee, On prospects drear ! And forward, though I canna see, I guess and fear.
Seite 207 - Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi
Seite 10 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Seite 208 - That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld! But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an
Seite 90 - Like a lady's ringlets brown, Flow thy silken ears adown Either side demurely Of thy silver-suited breast Shining out from all the rest Of thy body purely. Darkly brown thy body is, Till the sunshine striking this Alchemise its dulness, When the sleek curls manifold Flash all over into gold With a burnished fulness.
Seite 199 - Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.