City news notes and queries [afterw.] Manchester notes and queries. Ed. by J.H. Nodal. Vol.1-8 [issued in 33 pt. Wanting pt.1,5].

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Página 148 - I have great comfort from this fellow ; methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him ; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging ! Make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If hebe not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
Página 154 - Sweet is the lore which Nature brings ; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous form of things : We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art ; Close up these barren leaves ; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and
Página 46 - poet. The point to be illustrated is, that hope is implanted in man to enable him to bear all the evils of life, though it is merely visionary and has no foundation. What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Página 89 - Copious of flowers the woodbine, pale and wan, But well compensating her sickly looks With never-cloying odours, early and late ; Hypericum all bloom, so thick a swarm Of flowers, like flies, clothing her slender rods, That scarce a leaf appears. Mezereon too, Though leafless, well attired and thick beset With blushing wreaths, investing every spray.
Página 154 - the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher ; Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings ; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous form of things : We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art ; Close up these barren leaves ; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and
Página 89 - this red, And of an humbler growth ; the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress, or more sable yew, Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave. The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous
Página 46 - says:— Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; Man never is but always to be blessed. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Bests and expatiates in a life to come. The
Página 22 - has the following :—" Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a selfevident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim.
Página 179 - thus :— Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ; To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Sir Walter
Página 2 - I did send for a cup of tea (a China drink), of which I never had drank before.' In 1667 the herb had found its way into his own house. ' Home and there find my wife making of tea, a drink which Mr. Pelling, the potticary, tells her is good for her cold and

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