The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Band 8Joseph Shackell, 1832 |
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... scene before him , and his breast heaved convulsively as he strove to repress the rising sigh . Father , dearest father ! -for I must call you so , , " said the maiden , in a low voice , as if afraid to disturb the reverie into which he ...
... scene before him , and his breast heaved convulsively as he strove to repress the rising sigh . Father , dearest father ! -for I must call you so , , " said the maiden , in a low voice , as if afraid to disturb the reverie into which he ...
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... scenes , and entered into conversation with our actor . " Moss , " said one of them , " you must be a devilish clever fellow , to get through your part so well as you did to - night , without knowing five words together of your author ...
... scenes , and entered into conversation with our actor . " Moss , " said one of them , " you must be a devilish clever fellow , to get through your part so well as you did to - night , without knowing five words together of your author ...
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... scenes , whilst he was still dressed for the character he had performed . Quin put the manu- script into his pocket and forgot it .-- The bard having allowed some time to elapse , sufficient for the reading of the piece , called one ...
... scenes , whilst he was still dressed for the character he had performed . Quin put the manu- script into his pocket and forgot it .-- The bard having allowed some time to elapse , sufficient for the reading of the piece , called one ...
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... scene that burst on the eyes of the youthful Alas- sar . Fatigued with the cares of the day , he had sought in the voluptuous sweet- ness and rose - fed love songs of his na- tional poets , a respite from the toils of merchandize , and ...
... scene that burst on the eyes of the youthful Alas- sar . Fatigued with the cares of the day , he had sought in the voluptuous sweet- ness and rose - fed love songs of his na- tional poets , a respite from the toils of merchandize , and ...
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... of this mys- terious scene . " " A fire was kindled in a golden chaf- ing - dish , which stood in the middle of the apartment , and into which , at inter- vals , he cast perfumes , and various in- gredients 18 THE OLIO .
... of this mys- terious scene . " " A fire was kindled in a golden chaf- ing - dish , which stood in the middle of the apartment , and into which , at inter- vals , he cast perfumes , and various in- gredients 18 THE OLIO .
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Seite 269 - But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Seite 233 - Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London...
Seite 107 - And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me : neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem : neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Seite 234 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Seite 223 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Seite 259 - Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Seite 269 - Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Seite 106 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Seite 80 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy ? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven : We know her woof, her texture ; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Seite 260 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.