The Bijou: An Annual of Literature and the Arts, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1828 - Gift books |
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... Earl of Gowrie - farewell my old , tried , and dear friend of forty long years . Our enjoyments must now be of a character less vivid than those we have shared together , But still at our lot it were vain to repine , Youth cannot return ...
... Earl of Gowrie - farewell my old , tried , and dear friend of forty long years . Our enjoyments must now be of a character less vivid than those we have shared together , But still at our lot it were vain to repine , Youth cannot return ...
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... earl bowed , and looked grim and wise , and mumbled out his patrician welcomes , ( which were too ceremonious by half ) . The old countess , who paints as thick as a door , laboured to be alluring , and Lady Cecil out - looked all the ...
... earl bowed , and looked grim and wise , and mumbled out his patrician welcomes , ( which were too ceremonious by half ) . The old countess , who paints as thick as a door , laboured to be alluring , and Lady Cecil out - looked all the ...
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... earl , as dull as a drum , and tedious beyond even the privilege of parliament ; the countess , a fine old enamel , as I have said , but a little cracked , and somewhat out of drawing : Cecil Dartley , al- ways couleur de rose ; and her ...
... earl , as dull as a drum , and tedious beyond even the privilege of parliament ; the countess , a fine old enamel , as I have said , but a little cracked , and somewhat out of drawing : Cecil Dartley , al- ways couleur de rose ; and her ...
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... Earl of Trumpington . He had hammered his brains for a month : he had read Ude , and Rundell , and Beauvilliers , and dipped into the eccentricities of Kitchiner , in order to arrive at correct opinions . He had been closeted with his ...
... Earl of Trumpington . He had hammered his brains for a month : he had read Ude , and Rundell , and Beauvilliers , and dipped into the eccentricities of Kitchiner , in order to arrive at correct opinions . He had been closeted with his ...
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... Earl was such a stickler for dignity , that he could not bear to be mistaken for a commoner , even in his dishes . Dr. Grampus ( ' the Vicar ' ) mumbled out a brief grace , and the company sate down to table . For a short space all ...
... Earl was such a stickler for dignity , that he could not bear to be mistaken for a commoner , even in his dishes . Dr. Grampus ( ' the Vicar ' ) mumbled out a brief grace , and the company sate down to table . For a short space all ...
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Page 28 - All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair — The bees are stirring — birds are on the wing — And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Page 144 - With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young ! When I was young ? — Ah, woful When ! Ah ! for the change 'twixt Now and Then ! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous...
Page 24 - Fairly began — but finish'd not; And fruitless, late remorse doth trace — Like Hebrew lore a backward pace — Her irrecoverable race. Disjointed numbers; sense unknit Huge reams of folly, shreds of wit; Compose the mingled mass of it. My scalded eyes no longer brook Upon this ink-blurr'd thing to look — Go, shut the leaves, and clasp the book.
Page 16 - MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue. Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo! creation widened in man's view.
Page 28 - And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 144 - Tis known, that Thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit— It cannot be that Thou art gone! Thy vesper-bell hath not yet toll'd:— And thou wert aye a masker bold! What strange disguise hast now put on, To make believe, that thou art gone?
Page 306 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 146 - A wild-rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree : And lo ! where Mary leans her head, Two dear names carved upon the tree ! And Mary's tears, they are not tears of sorrow...
Page 16 - neath the curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came ; And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 16 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And, lo! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?