The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels, Том 2

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Richard Bentley, 1870 - 427 страници
 

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Страница 192 - I'd never heard before, A little 'gallows-looking chap' - dear me; what could he mean? With a 'carpet-swab' and 'muckingtogs,' and a hat turned up with green. He spoke about his 'precious eyes...
Страница 60 - The charge is prepared, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged ; (a terrible show !) I go undismayed, for death is a debt — A debt on demand, so take what I owe.
Страница 336 - The Lady Jane was tall and slim, The Lady Jane was fair, Alas ! for Sir Thomas ! — she grieved for him, As she saw two...
Страница 326 - But his cough was short, and his eyes were dim, And he wore green " specs," with a tortoiseshell rim, And his hat was remarkably broad in the brim, And she was uncommonly fond of him, And they were a loving pair ! — — And...
Страница 190 - Cheer up ! cheer up ! my little man — cheer up!' I kindly said, ' You are a naughty boy to take such things into your head : If you should jump from off the pier, you'd surely...
Страница 336 - Ere she fixed to repulse, or return, his embrace, Up came running a man, at a deuce of a pace, With that very peculiar expression of face Which always betokens dismay or disaster, Crying out — 'twas the Gardener, — ' Oh, Ma'am ! we've found Master !' — 'Where! where?' screamed the lady; and Echo scream'd 'Where?
Страница 194 - Don't take too much of double X! and don't at night go out To fetch your beer yourself, but make the pot-boy bring your stout ! And when you go to Margate next, just stop and ring the bell, Give my respects to Mrs. Jones, and say I'm pretty well...
Страница 164 - I SAW thee, Netley, as the sun Across the western wave Was sinking slow, And a golden glow To thy roofless towers he gave ; And the ivy sheen, With its mantle of green, That wrapt thy walls around, Shone lovelily bright, In that glorious light, And I felt 'twas holy ground. Then I thought of the ancient time — The days of the Monks of old, — When to Matin and Vesper, and Compline chime, The loud Hosanna roll'd, And thy courts, and ' long-drawn aisles ' among, Swell'd the full tide of sacred song.
Страница 183 - I should not be surprised," said he, "if these were Nelly Cook's!" ' It was in good Dean Bargrave's days, if I remember right, Those fleshless bones beneath the stones these Masons brought to light ; And you may well in the "Dean's Chapelle" Dean Bargrave's portrait view, "Who died one night...
Страница 400 - Burk'd him. The poor little Page too himself got no quarter, but Was served the same way, And was found, the next day, With his heels in the air and his head in the water-butt. Catherine of Cleves Roar'd " Murder!" and

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