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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... woman of fifty years of age , enjoying a decent fortune , the mother of seven children , has been burnt alive on suspicion of sorcery . A farmer had a daughter twenty years of age , who was seized with a lingering disorder ; instead of ...
... woman of fifty years of age , enjoying a decent fortune , the mother of seven children , has been burnt alive on suspicion of sorcery . A farmer had a daughter twenty years of age , who was seized with a lingering disorder ; instead of ...
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... woman was thus tortured for above three hours , without being able to call for help , because her assassins stopped her mouth . It was not till the murderers saw her dying , and begging for the priest to attend her in her last moments ...
... woman was thus tortured for above three hours , without being able to call for help , because her assassins stopped her mouth . It was not till the murderers saw her dying , and begging for the priest to attend her in her last moments ...
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... woman was about 45 years of age.- Gazette de France . Dram - drinking . - There has been in all go- vernments a great deal of absurd canting about the consumption of spirits . We believe the best plan is to let people drink what they ...
... woman was about 45 years of age.- Gazette de France . Dram - drinking . - There has been in all go- vernments a great deal of absurd canting about the consumption of spirits . We believe the best plan is to let people drink what they ...
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... woman's condition drew round her a con- siderable crowd , who were all very clamorous , and applied to the bridge beadle , who immedi- ately went to the house of Mr. Little , the assist- and ant - overseer of St. Olave , in Tooley 34 ...
... woman's condition drew round her a con- siderable crowd , who were all very clamorous , and applied to the bridge beadle , who immedi- ately went to the house of Mr. Little , the assist- and ant - overseer of St. Olave , in Tooley 34 ...
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... woman should be taken care of ; " but as soon as the beadle went away , she was merely moved a few paces farther into the parish of St. Magnus , and there left with her daughter , who presently after went away , as she said , to fetch ...
... woman should be taken care of ; " but as soon as the beadle went away , she was merely moved a few paces farther into the parish of St. Magnus , and there left with her daughter , who presently after went away , as she said , to fetch ...
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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...
Page 132 - Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
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...
Page 359 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
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?
Page 349 - ... that comes from abroad or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man...