The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a Selection of the Most Amusing and Interesting Articles and Anecdotes that Have Appeared in the Magazines, Newspapers, and Other Daily and Periodical Journals, from the Year 1700, to the Present Time, Volume 2Matthew Iley, and sold, 1820 - Anecdotes |
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... dreadful crime was committed on the 14th of this month , at Onker- zeele , near Grammont : a woman of fifty years of age , enjoying a decent fortune , the mother of seven children , has been burnt alive on suspicion of sorcery . A ...
... dreadful crime was committed on the 14th of this month , at Onker- zeele , near Grammont : a woman of fifty years of age , enjoying a decent fortune , the mother of seven children , has been burnt alive on suspicion of sorcery . A ...
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... dreadful execution of this crime , the second daughter and the servant maid , whom the accused had caused to retire into an adjoining room , fled , by going up to the garret , and escaping over the roof . The victim was not dead the ...
... dreadful execution of this crime , the second daughter and the servant maid , whom the accused had caused to retire into an adjoining room , fled , by going up to the garret , and escaping over the roof . The victim was not dead the ...
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... dreadful manner in the woods , * A name given to the Indians , who , with a small paddle about four feet long , propel the boat . They hold this paddle perpendicularly in their hands , immers- ing it constantly in the water , on which ...
... dreadful manner in the woods , * A name given to the Indians , who , with a small paddle about four feet long , propel the boat . They hold this paddle perpendicularly in their hands , immers- ing it constantly in the water , on which ...
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... dreadful tro- pical showers , which wet through every thing we had about us . In order to reserve one dry cover- ing for the night , Lieutenant W―― and myself stood up in the boat with our backs to the rain , and holding a blanket ...
... dreadful tro- pical showers , which wet through every thing we had about us . In order to reserve one dry cover- ing for the night , Lieutenant W―― and myself stood up in the boat with our backs to the rain , and holding a blanket ...
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... dreadful , for we had still one hundred miles to the first Indian village , and if we had not more wind than at present , must undoubtedly starve . It rained incessantly during the night ; and the musquitoes being thus de- prived of the ...
... dreadful , for we had still one hundred miles to the first Indian village , and if we had not more wind than at present , must undoubtedly starve . It rained incessantly during the night ; and the musquitoes being thus de- prived of the ...
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Page 132 - And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now. And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
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Page 350 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his...
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Page 266 - The flash of Wit, the bright Intelligence, The beam of Song, the blaze of Eloquence, Set with their Sun, but still have left behind The enduring produce of immortal Mind ; Fruits of a genial morn, and glorious noon, A deathless part of him who died too soon.
Page 133 - Here is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath : But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue that haunts it to the tomb, Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away, Spark of that flame perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth.
Page 51 - Is it a fiend that to a stake Of fire his desperate self is tethering ? Or stubborn spirit doomed to yell In solitary ward or cell, Ten thousand miles from all his brethren.
Page 265 - WHEN the last sunshine of expiring day In summer's twilight weeps itself away, Who hath not felt the softness of the hour Sink on the heart, as dew along the flower? With a pure feeling which absorbs and awes While nature makes that melancholy pause, Her breathing moment on the bridge where Time Of light and darkness forms an arch sublime.
Page 352 - Love in my bosom like a bee Doth suck his sweet: Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast; My kisses are his daily feast, And yet he robs me of my rest. Ah, wanton, will ye?
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