The Cheltenham mail bag; or, Letters from Gloucestershire [in verse] ed. [really written?] by Peter Quince, the younger |
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The Cheltenham mail bag; or, Letters from Gloucestershire [in verse] ed ... William Henry Halpin Volledige weergave - 1820 |
The Cheltenham Mail Bag; Or, Letters from Gloucestershire [In Verse] Ed ... William Henry Halpin Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
The Cheltenham Mail Bag; Or, Letters from Gloucestershire [In Verse] Ed ... William Henry Halpin Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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ACERBUS SKETCH appear beam beauty behold bless blooming bougie brain breath bright brow Chamber-maid charms cheeks CHELTENHAM MAIL cockney cold court-martial dear deem delight doomed dream e'en e'er earth eleven stone eyes face fair fame fancy fashion fate favoured feel folly Fudge genius glad glow gout grace hail hair HARK hath heart Heaven Hippocrates icicles joys knighthood learned LETTER light lips look Lord loveliness Melpomene Midsummer Night's Dream mind mirth mock Muse Mustard Mustard-seed Nature's ne'er neath night o'er once PETER QUINCE play praise pride Printer's Devil Pump Room pure quadrille Quoit REUBEN SKETCH round shade shine sighs sight skill slanderer smile snow song sooth soul sparkling sphere spirit spleen strain sweet taste tell thank there's thine thou tongue truth twas twere twill twittles twould vile walks weighing chair Whilst White Mustard wish thee youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 89 - In peace there's nothing- so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears. Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...
Pagina 86 - The tragic paragons had grown — They were the children of her pride, The columns of her throne, And undivided favour ran From heart to heart in their applause. Save for the gallantry of man In lovelier woman's cause.
Pagina 120 - No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Pagina vii - Is to avoid the occasion of the ill ; For when the cause whence evil doth arise, Removed is, the effect surceaseth still. Abstain from pleasure and restrain your will, Subdue desire and bridle loose delight, Use scanted diet, and forbear your fill, Shun secresy, and talk in open sight, So shall you soon repair your present evil
Pagina 125 - See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Pagina 41 - Mary Cunitz, one of the greatest geniuses in the sixteenth century, was born in Silesia. She learned languages with amazing facility, and understood Polish, German, French, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. She attained a knowledge of the sciences with equal ease ; she was skilled in history, physic, poetry, painting, music, and playing upon instruments ; and yet these were only an amusement. She more particularly applied herself to the mathematics, and especially to astronomy, which she made her...
Pagina 18 - Come hither, come hither — by night and by day, We linger in pleasures that never are gone ; Like the waves of the summer, as one dies away, Another as sweet and as shining comes on.
Pagina 88 - ... saies You now are Courteous, when you change the light, 75 Will say you're Just, and think it a new sight; And this is your peculiar Art, we know Others may do like Actions, but not so. The Agents alter things, and what does come, Powerfull from these, flows weaker far from some; 80 Thus the Sun's light makes Day, if it appear, And casts true Lustre round the Hemisphere; When if projected from the Moon, that light Makes not a day, but only Colours Night; But you we may still full, still perfect...
Pagina 29 - Un discours trop sincere aisement nous outrage: Chacun dans ce miroir pense voir son visage: Et teL, en vous lisant admire chaque trait, Qui dans le fond de...
Pagina 64 - The person, not the cause ; saving the guilty, If of his faction, and as oft condemning The innocent, out of particular spleen; If any in this reverend assembly, Nay, even yourself, my lord, that are the image Of absent...