The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volume 2 |
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Ceca 9.6 THE ELEPHANT , As he laid dead at Ereter Change . In the position he liked best He seem'd to drop , to sudden rest ; Nor bow'd his neck , but still a sense Retaind of his magnificence ; For , as he fell , he raised his head And ...
Ceca 9.6 THE ELEPHANT , As he laid dead at Ereter Change . In the position he liked best He seem'd to drop , to sudden rest ; Nor bow'd his neck , but still a sense Retaind of his magnificence ; For , as he fell , he raised his head And ...
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At such a period it is customits purchaser , and the elephant , thus ary in India to liberate the elephants and ... succeednever exhibited at any other place . ed in deceiving his patient into the On the elephant's first arrival from ...
At such a period it is customits purchaser , and the elephant , thus ary in India to liberate the elephants and ... succeednever exhibited at any other place . ed in deceiving his patient into the On the elephant's first arrival from ...
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... it operated no apparent effect , whom the elephant had not seen , and At this juncture Mr. Nyleve , a native whom therefore he might regard as a East Indian , and a man of talent , sug- casual visiter , and not suspect .
... it operated no apparent effect , whom the elephant had not seen , and At this juncture Mr. Nyleve , a native whom therefore he might regard as a East Indian , and a man of talent , sug- casual visiter , and not suspect .
Page 327
The elephant's weight was uphereafter repent . Mr. Cross assured him wards of five tons , and from such an ani . that whatever irritation he might mani- mal's excessive rage , in a place of insefest , proceeded from his own feelings of ...
The elephant's weight was uphereafter repent . Mr. Cross assured him wards of five tons , and from such an ani . that whatever irritation he might mani- mal's excessive rage , in a place of insefest , proceeded from his own feelings of ...
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The elephant was dead . homeward . They were met near the me- To describe the proceedings of Exete nagerie by Mr. Tyler , who entreated Mr. Change , from the time of Mr. Cross's Cross to run to Somerset - house and ob- leaving it ...
The elephant was dead . homeward . They were met near the me- To describe the proceedings of Exete nagerie by Mr. Tyler , who entreated Mr. Change , from the time of Mr. Cross's Cross to run to Somerset - house and ob- leaving it ...
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Page 553 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 235 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk : 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, — That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
Page 867 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 1169 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 99 - And not a voice was idle ; with the din Smitten, the precipices rang aloud ; The leafless trees and every icy crag Tinkled like iron ; while far distant hills Into the tumult sent an alien sound Of melancholy not unnoticed, while the stars Eastward were sparkling clear, and in the west The orange sky of evening died away.
Page 235 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret; Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Page 99 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Page 889 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied', Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, • Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds...
Page 235 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild...
Page 951 - All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere ; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.