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Page 55 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief "of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground ; Then...
Page 120 - There came a body of thirty thousand cranes (I won't be positive, there might be more) With stones from Africa, in their craws and gizzards, Which the stone-curlews and stone-chatterers Worked into shape and finished.
Page 118 - Your struggles of misery, labour, and care. Whence you may learn and clearly discern Such truths as attract your inquisitive turn ; Which is busied of late, with a mighty debate, A profound speculation about the creation, And organical life, and chaotical strife, With various notions of heavenly motions, And rivers and oceans, and valleys and mountains, And sources of fountains, and meteors on high, And stars in the sky. We propose by-and-by (If you'll listen and hear) to make it all clear.
Page 118 - O'er ocean and earth, and aloft to the sky: And, all the world over, we're friends to the lover, And when other means fail, we are found to prevail, When a Peacock or Pheasant is sent as a present.
Page 54 - First, I detest the Spartans most extremely; And wish that Neptune, the Taenarian deity, Would bury them in their houses with his earthquakes. For I've had losses — losses, let me tell ye, Like other people; vines cut down and injured. But, among friends (for only friends are here), Why should we blame the Spartans for all this? For people of ours, some people of our own, Some people from amongst us here, I mean; But not the people (pray remember that); I never said the people — but a pack Of...
Page 3 - There the drama — but what is a drama in Naples without Punch? or what is Punch out of Naples? Here, in his native tongue, and among his own countrymen, Punch is a person of real power: he dresses up and retails all the drolleries of the day: he is the channel and sometimes the source of the passing opinions: he can inflict ridicule, he could gain a mob, or keep the whole kingdom in good humour.
Page 126 - Her . (with a, tone of easy, indolent, deliberate banter). Well, — which shall I tell ye first, now ? — Let me see now — There's a good convenient road by the Rope and Noose; The Hanging Road.
Page 119 - Delphi, for Ammon, Dodona, in fine, For every oracular temple and shrine, The Birds are a substitute equal and fair, For on us you depend, and to us you repair For counsel and aid, when a marriage is made, A purchase, a bargain, a venture in trade : Unlucky or lucky, whatever has struck ye, An ox or an ass, that may happen to pass, A voice in the street, or a slave that you meet, A name or a word by chance overheard, If you deem it an omen, you call it a Bird ; And if birds are your omens, it clearly...
Page 26 - As for us, the sole pretension suited to our birth and years, Is with resolute intention, as determined volunteers, To defend our fields and altars, as our fathers did before ; Claiming as a recompense this easy boon, and nothing more : When our trials with peace are ended, not to view us with malignity ; When we're curried, sleek and pampered, prancing in our pride and dignity.
Page 50 - It's quite impossible. Die. But it must be done. Positively and absolutely I must see him ; Or I must stand here rapping at the door. Euripides ! Euripides ! come down, If ever you came down in all your life ! 'Tis I — 'tis DicEeopolis from Chollidw.