Contributions to Literature: Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical

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J. R. Smith, 1854 - 284 pages
 

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Page 180 - Come on, sir ; here's the place! stand still.—How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce as gross as beetles: Half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks lie
Page 206 - See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth, To give him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn ; Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn!
Page 29 - Hop, and Mop, and Dryp so clear, Pip and Trip, and Skip that were To Mab their sovereign ever dear, Her special maids of honour ; Fib, and Tib, and Pinck, and Pin, Tick and Quick, and Jil and Jin, Tit and Nit, and Wap and Win, The train that wait upon her
Page 180 - idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high :—I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 66 - And the duke stood among them, of noble mien and stature, and rendered thanks to the King of glory, through whom he had the victory; and thanked the knights around him, mourning frequently for the dead. And he ate and drank among the dead, and made his bed that night upon the field.
Page 224 - who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Page 71 - Asten once distained with native English blood; Whose soil yet, when but wet with any little rain, Doth blush, as put in mind of those there sadly slain." Most unfortunately, however, for tradition and poetry, the true original name of the spot referred to was not
Page 63 - came in the throng of the battle and struck him on the ventaille of the helmet, and beat him to the ground; and as he sought to recover himself, a knight beat him down again, striking him on the thick of the thigh, down to the bone.
Page 53 - It was during this retreat and pursuit that there occurred an incident of a frightful character, which is particularly described by Wace. " In the plain," says he, " was a fosse . . . The English charged and drove the Normans before them, till they made them fall
Page 43 - in front. He quickly changed it, but when he saw that those who stood by were sorely alarmed, he said, ' I have seen many a man who, if such a thing had happened to him, would not have borne arms, or entered the field the same

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