Letters to Julia: In Rhyme, to which are Added Lines Written at Ampthill-ParkJohn Murray, 1822 - 265 pages |
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Page xix - Like stepping-stones, to save a stride, In streets where kennels are too wide ; Or like a heel-piece, to support A cripple with one foot too short ; Or like a bridge, that joins a marish To moorlands of a different parish.
Page 257 - In days of old here Ampthill's towers were seen, The mournful refuge of an injured queen. Here flow'd her pure, but unavailing; tears ; Here blinded zeal sustain'd her sinking years.
Page 206 - Look yonder, — that hale, welllooking puppy ! You ungrateful scoundrel, did not I pity you, take you out of a great man's service, and show you the pleasure of receiving wages ? Did not I give you ten, then fifteen and twenty shillings a, week to be sorrowful ! — and the more I give, you, I think the gladder you are .'" 1
Page 104 - O, that there might in England be A duty on Hypocrisy, A tax on Humbug, an excise On solemn plausibilities, A stamp on every man that canted ! No millions more, if these were granted, Henceforward would be raised or wanted ; But Van, with an o'erflowing chest, Might soon forgive us all the rest."* NORTH.
Page 153 - They find, hark forward ! off they go To the mad cry of Tally Ho ! " The First Ten Minutes. ** Bind up my wounds, give me another horse ! " " He of the true, the genuine sort." ** A chosen few alone the sport enjoy." Symptoms of a Scurry in a Pewy Country.
Page 31 - Just skirts th' horizon, and is gone; When from his disk a shortlived glare Is wasted on the clear cold air, When the snow sparkles, on the sight Flashing intolerable white, And, swept by hurried feet, the ground Returns a crisp and crushing sound.
Page 127 - No critic-arrow now alights On some unconscious passer-by, Whose cape's an inch too low or high ; Whose doctrines are unsound in hat, In boots...
Page 128 - ... canters, with an awkward seat And badly mounted, up the street. No laugh confounds the luckless girl Whose stubborn hair disdains to curl, Who, large in foot, and long in waist, Shows want of blood, as well as taste : Silenced awhile that dreadful battery Whence never issued sound of flattery...
Page xx - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 221 - Haud similis virgo est virginum nostrarum: quas matres student Demissis humeris esse, vincto pectore, ut graciles sient ; Si qua est habitior paulo, pugilem esse aiunt; deducunt cibum, Tametsi bona est natura, reddunt curatura junceas : Itaque ergo amantur. PA. Quid tua istsec. CH. Nova figura oris. PA. Papa! CH. Color verus, corpus solidum et succi plenum.2 "The Eunuch" suggested the plot of Sir Charles Sedley's " Bellamira," was translated by Lafontaine, and imitated in " Le Muet