The Wassail-bowl: A Comic Christmas Sketch-bookR.Bentley, 1844 |
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amidst amongst amusement appeared arbalist arrived asked beautiful bell Berlin Wool Blake Blanche Bude lights castle Castle of Chillon Chamonix Chertsey cheval glass commenced companion cottage ornée cousin Cripps crowd dancing delightful door dress Edmund entered exclaimed eyes fair forest formed friends gaze gentle gentleman Geoffrey Chaucer girl hair hand happy head heard Herne Herne the Hunter horses hostess hour idea instant Jenks keeper laugh Lawson Ledbury light look Master ment minutes Monselice morning never Neville night once ourselves pantomime party passed Percival performance piece Pimony play postilion pretty Punch quadrille replied returned réunion ring round Rovigo scene seat seen side Skuffle stairs stood street supper theatre thing thought tion Tom Bankes took trees turned walked WALLFLOWER Walter waltz whilst whole window Yorkists young lady
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Page 205 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Page 199 - COW THANK you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread, Every day, and every night, Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white. Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslips eat, They will make it very sweet.
Page 203 - Je dirais volontiers à ceux qui ont du goût et qui sont sensibles : « Allez à Vevay, visitez le pays, examinez les sites, promenez-vous sur le lac, et dites si la nature n'a pas fait ce beau pays pour une Julie, pour une Claire, et pour un Saint-Preux, mais ne les y cherchez pas.
Page 203 - T was not for fiction chose Rousseau this spot, Peopling it with affections ; but he found It was the scene which passion must allot To the mind's purified beings...
Page 100 - ... Miss Lawson was flirting with a slim young man at the sideboard, where she preferred to sup, on the pretence of not being able to find a seat ; and Miss Cynthia, no doubt much fatigued by her vocal exertions, was concluding the second patty, and thinking what she should send her cavalier servante for next.
Page 181 - I'll tell you what it did. The first day he took it out he fired one barrel, and killed six crows as he didn't see ; he fired the second, and shot nine partridges out of five, and the kick of the gun knocked him back'ards into a ditch, and he fell upon a hare and killed that. These guns will shoot round a corner, and over a hay-rick; and they're used to fatten the paupers that are turned out of the Unions for not paying the Income Tax.
Page 95 - The young lady was dressed in plain white robes, with her hair smoothed very flat round her head a la Grisi, whom she thought she resembled both in style of singing and features, and consequently studied all her attitudes from the clever Italian's impersonation of Norma. Of course, there was the usual delay attendant upon such displays* The musicians had to be cleared away from the piano, in which process their wine-bottle was knocked over ; then the music was in a portfolio, in the room down stairs,...
Page 73 - Ere one drop of his lady's should be spilt. P. Your wounds are but without, and mine within: You wound my heart, and I but prick your skin; And while your eyes pierce deeper than my claws, You blame the effect of which you are the cause. C. How could my guiltless eyes your heart invade, Had it not first been by your own betrayed?
Page 94 - As it was not above twenty pages in length, every one was quite charmed, — indeed, they could almost have heard it again ; and the manner in which Miss Lawson sprung at the keys, and darted up and down the flats and sharps, and twitched her shoulders, and tickled the piano into convulsions, and jerked about upon the music-stool, was really astonishing, and thunderstruck everybody ; except the young lady and gentleman who were flirting at the end of the room after a waltz, and actually appeared...
Page 186 - Not on the one side a careless idler, who sneered at everything connected with study, and thought the chief happiness the world could give was to be found in a glass of brandy and water. Nor was he, on the other, one of those intense potterers who haunt the hospitals year after year, cringing to the officers, and thinking themselves above the pupils, with the sole hope of being at some very distant period elected assistant-surgeon — an aspiration which is never gratified. But he, Mr. Cripps, combined...