Chambers's pocket miscellany, 23-24. kötet |
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27. oldal
... length by three in width ; is of crimson velvet , splendidly embroidered with gold ; and , with the parliamentary robe , and the imperial robe , which is of purple velvet , both of which are also exhibited , contains 567 feet of velvet ...
... length by three in width ; is of crimson velvet , splendidly embroidered with gold ; and , with the parliamentary robe , and the imperial robe , which is of purple velvet , both of which are also exhibited , contains 567 feet of velvet ...
33. oldal
... length the fears of the grand - master lest the dagger or poison should deprive him of this precious deposit , or lest the order should be embarrassed by the demand of his surrender , or perhaps less honourable motives , made the ...
... length the fears of the grand - master lest the dagger or poison should deprive him of this precious deposit , or lest the order should be embarrassed by the demand of his surrender , or perhaps less honourable motives , made the ...
35. oldal
... length by the intervention of Charles VIII . of France ; yet this deliverance was only a change of prison . Hussein Bey , the ambassador of Bajazet , had endeavoured to purchase the surrender of the fugitive to the sultan by a ...
... length by the intervention of Charles VIII . of France ; yet this deliverance was only a change of prison . Hussein Bey , the ambassador of Bajazet , had endeavoured to purchase the surrender of the fugitive to the sultan by a ...
39. oldal
... lengths , while the pillars that had been left were found in almost all cases to be totally insufficient to bear permanently the enormous weight above . In various instances , the roof had sunk considerably , and in others , large ...
... lengths , while the pillars that had been left were found in almost all cases to be totally insufficient to bear permanently the enormous weight above . In various instances , the roof had sunk considerably , and in others , large ...
59. oldal
... length of time as to make them forget they ever belonged to the name . The discovery of his Hebrew descent was an essential point , as the prophet was to be the ' prince and restorer of the Jews , by the year 1798. Absurd enough as this ...
... length of time as to make them forget they ever belonged to the name . The discovery of his Hebrew descent was an essential point , as the prophet was to be the ' prince and restorer of the Jews , by the year 1798. Absurd enough as this ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Amistad animal appearance arms arrived aunt Aylmer Bajazet brother calash called cat-fish catacombs of Paris Cecile character child Cinque Constantino creditor Dawkins Dolorès door dressed eyes father fear feelings feet France French Fritz gave gentleman girl Giuli give governess hand happy Harriet head heard honour horse hour Jungfrau king knew kraken length letters live Lomboko looked Lord George Lord George Gordon Lyon Madame Tussaud manner May-day Medcalf mind Miss Cecilia Miss Crampton Miss Gibbs Miss Partington Miss Pelham Miss Phillips Monfalcon morning Naples never night o'clock party passed persons poor prince Queen received Richard Brothers round scarcely seemed seen seized sent shewed ship side Sir George Skerry soon streets Susan Tecora thing thought Thurot tion took turban vessel Vincent de Paul whole
Népszerű szakaszok
77. oldal - Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
16. oldal - A branch of may we have brought you And at your door it stands. It is but a sprout But it's well budded out By the work of our Lord's hands. The hedges and trees they are so green, As green as any leek. Our heavenly father He watered them With his heavenly dew so sweet. The heavenly gates are open wide, Our paths are beaten plain, And if a man be not too far gone He may return again. The life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower. We are here today and gone tomorrow, And we are dead in...
14. oldal - My wife away down with Jane and W. Hewer to Woolwich, in order to a little ayre and to lie there to-night, and so to gather May-dew ' to-morrow morning, which Mrs. Turner hath taught her is the only thing in the world to wash her face with ; and I am contented with it.
16. oldal - With his heavenly dew so sweet. " The heavenly gates are open wide, Our paths are beaten plain, And if a man be not too far gone, He may return again. " The life of man is but a span, It flourishes like a flower, We are here to-day, and gone to-morrow, And we are dead in an hour. " The moon shines bright, and the stars give a light, A little before it is day, So God bless you all, both great and small, And^send you a joyful May.
19. oldal - Cheveritte, the baron's chief minstrel, on the bagpipes accompanied with the pipe and tabour, performed by one of his associates. When the dance was finished, Gregory the jester, who undertook to play the hobby-horse, came forward with his appropriate equipment, and, frisking up and down the square without restriction, imitated the galloping, curvetting, ambling, trotting, and other paces of a horse, to the infinite satisfaction of the lower classes of the spectators. He was followed by Peter Parker,...
15. oldal - ... which remained in Bancroft for more than an hour, was composed as follows : — First came two men with their faces blacked, one of them with a birch broom in his hand, and a large artificial hump on his back ; the other dressed as a woman, all in rags and tatters, with a large straw bonnet on, and carrying a ladle: these are called
40. oldal - Isoire," or Isouard, (from a famous robber, who once infested that neighbourhood), on the old road to Orleans, was purchased, with a piece of ground adjoining ; and the first operations were to make an entrance into the quarries by a flight of seventy-seven steps, and to sink a well from the surface, down which the bones might be thrown. Meantime, the workmen below walled off that part of the quarries which was designed for the great charnel-house, opened a communication between the upper and lower...
61. oldal - The cook, a coloured Spaniard, told them that, on their arrival at Principe, in three days they would have their throats cut, be chopped in pieces, and salted down for meat for the Spaniards. He pointed to some barrels of beef on the deck, then to an empty barrel, and by significant gestures — as the Mendians say, by " talking with his fingers " — he made them understand that they were to be slain, &c.
171. oldal - At this time he was supposed to be about thirteen years old, and could not speak. This singular creature was presented to King George I., then at Hanover, while at dinner. The king caused him to taste of all the dishes at the table ; and in order to bring him by degrees to relish human diet, he directed that he should have such provision as he seemed best to like, and such instruction as might beet fit him for human society.
67. oldal - ... centuries ago ! The glacier history of 200 years is revealed in the interval, and a block ten times the volume of the greatest of the Egyptian monoliths, which has just commenced its march, will see out the course of six generations of men ere its pilgrimage, too, be accomplished, and it is laid low and motionless in the common grave of its predecessors.