Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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Pagina 3
... period the larva of the ichneumon are ready , and gnawing their way out , destroy the miserable being on whose substance they have fed , and , clustering together near the withering body of their sup- porter , enfold themselves in tiny ...
... period the larva of the ichneumon are ready , and gnawing their way out , destroy the miserable being on whose substance they have fed , and , clustering together near the withering body of their sup- porter , enfold themselves in tiny ...
Pagina 12
... period was carried on , that is curious from its showing the similarity of its relation to our own country at so re- mote a period . In order to ensure as much safety as was practicable in their intercourse , the Romans constructed ...
... period was carried on , that is curious from its showing the similarity of its relation to our own country at so re- mote a period . In order to ensure as much safety as was practicable in their intercourse , the Romans constructed ...
Pagina 16
... period , when the ice was about to dis- appear . M. Agassiz , as a means of explaining these and a great many other phenomena observable in mountain valleys , directs attention back to a remote period when , as he supposes , a large ...
... period , when the ice was about to dis- appear . M. Agassiz , as a means of explaining these and a great many other phenomena observable in mountain valleys , directs attention back to a remote period when , as he supposes , a large ...
Pagina 17
... period , and we shall therefore con- sider it Anglo - Saxon . It will be remembered that in one of the early in- cursions of the Danes into England ( A.D. 870 ) , Ed- mund , king of East Anglia , was taken prisoner by them , and ...
... period , and we shall therefore con- sider it Anglo - Saxon . It will be remembered that in one of the early in- cursions of the Danes into England ( A.D. 870 ) , Ed- mund , king of East Anglia , was taken prisoner by them , and ...
Pagina 18
... period . Alto- gether , the church , though rudely venerable in ap- pearance , has so substantial a look as almost to promise , if carefully attended to , to last another eight cen- turies . * We know of few churches near London more de ...
... period . Alto- gether , the church , though rudely venerable in ap- pearance , has so substantial a look as almost to promise , if carefully attended to , to last another eight cen- turies . * We know of few churches near London more de ...
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Pagina 181 - And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Pagina 10 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood...
Pagina 11 - He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting, was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack...
Pagina 31 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Pagina 61 - ... made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Pagina 231 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Pagina 10 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Pagina 11 - prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th' holsters, at his saddle-bow, Two aged pistols he did stow, Aniong the surplus of such meat As in his hose he could not get : ' These would inveigle rats with th...
Pagina 31 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin.
Pagina 244 - Where joy, heart's ease, and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake, But blustering care could never tempest make, Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Saving of fountains that glide by us.