Sayings and doings in America [signed Costard Sly]. |
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307 ページ - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
19 ページ - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage 41 Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil: but you, O you So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best!
296 ページ - Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has often led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to glorious victory. "Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power — Edward!
75 ページ - Curst cows have short horns," he would cry — when our ladies were bandying their flouts and jeers about; — or " the Devil is in the cows!" — and then, out he would walk, as if a flea had chewed offthe tip of his left ear ! If you told him that such or such a person, (though not over-burthened with riches) — was remarkable for his or her talents—" Aha,"— he would say, " the belly is the teacher of arts, and the bestower of genius.
17 ページ - If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could do us no harm.'' — Their incense would be thrown away, if it was not grateful to our self-love. Si parva licet componere inagnis.
198 ページ - О there are looks and tones that dart an instant sunshine to the heart, as if the soul that minute caught some treasure it through life had sought; as if the very lips and eyes sparkled and spoke before us.
75 ページ - He took office, with this saying in his mouth, " I shall have estimation among the multitude, and honor with the elders." His two favorite monosyllables were IF and NO ; and he sometimes went, whole weeks together, without making use of any others, (at least, in our hearing,) — but we suspected he sometimes indulged himself, during so long an abstinence, by talking to himself— in his-sleep!
184 ページ - Mr. Leach Made a speech, Impressive, clear, and strong; Mr. Hart, On the other part, Was tedious, dull, and long. Mr. Parker Made that darker Which was dark enough without; Mr. Bell, He spoke so well, That the Chancellor said,