A Supplement to the Two Volumes of the Second Edition of the Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes, Band 1

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John King, 1840 - 311 Seiten

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Seite 33 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Seite 123 - The hog, that ploughs not, nor obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Seite 41 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Seite 192 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our army! and let Jove incrust Swords, pikes, and guns, with everlasting rust!
Seite 301 - CROSS patch, Draw the latch, Sit by the fire and spin ; Take a cup, And drink it up, Then call your neighbours in.
Seite 164 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Seite 268 - ... away, With a gay lady. Build it up with iron and steel, Dance o'er my Lady Lee; Build it up with iron and steel, With a gay lady. Iron and steel will bend and bow, Dance o'er my Lady Lee; Iron and steel will bend and bow, With a gay lady. Build it up with wood and clay, Dance o'er my Lady Lee; Build it up with wood and clay, With a gay lady.
Seite 45 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's...
Seite 267 - LONDON bridge is broken down, Dance o'er my lady lee ; London bridge is broken down, With a gay lady.
Seite 183 - ... all are fair ! From distant shires repair the noble youth, And find report for once had lessen'd truth. By wonder first, and then by passion mov'd, , They came; they saw; they marvell'd; and they lov'd.

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