Murray and co's book of information for railway travellers and railway officials

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Murray, 1865 - 203 Seiten
 

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Seite 18 - Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was ! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold : Numb were the Beadsman's fingers while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious incense from a censer old, Seem'd taking flight for heaven without a death, Past the sweet Virgin's picture, while his prayer he saith.
Seite 102 - The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff — and speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than fire.
Seite 111 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Seite 89 - Any person who, having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such steamer beyond such distance without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof...
Seite 202 - Exposed to the scorching rays of the sun and heated particles of dust, will find ROWLANDS...
Seite 89 - ... and with intent to avoid payment thereof, or if any person, having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in any such carriage beyond such distance, without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof, or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuse or neglect, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit such carriage, every such person shall for every buch offence forfeit to the company...
Seite 202 - ROWLANDS' ODONTO, OR PEARL DENTIFRICE, A White Powder, compounded of the choicest find most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the Teeth a Pearl-like Whiteness, frees them from Tartar, and imparts, to the Gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a pleasing fragrance. Price 2s. 9d. per Box. Sold by all Chemists and Perfumers anywhere on the Continent.
Seite 6 - Schemes of retirement sown In youth, and mid the busy world kept pure As when their earliest flowers of hope were blown, Must perish ;— how can they this blight endure? And must he too the ruthless change bemoan...
Seite 71 - Still the same, no charm forgot, — Nothing lost that Time had given." not the Dead, who have loved, who have left us, "*" Who bend o'er us now, from their bright homes above ; But believe — never doubt — that the God who bereft us Permits them to mingle with friends they still love.
Seite 23 - A by-law of a railway company provided that " no passenger will be allowed to enter any carriage used on the railway, or to travel therein upon the railway, unless furnished by the company with a ticket specifying the class of carriage and the stations for conveyance between which such ticket is issued. Every passenger shall show and deliver up his ticket (whether a contract or season ticket, or otherwise) to any duly...

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