CURRENT NOTES: A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON ANTIQUITIES, BIOGRAPHY, HERALRY, HISTORY, LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, NATURAL HISTORY, CURIOUS CUSTOMS, ETC.1854 |
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Page 10 - And frolic it, with ho, ho, ho ! Sometimes I meet them like a man, Sometimes an ox, sometimes a hound; And to a horse I turn me can, To trip and trot about them round. But if to ride My back they stride, More swift than wind away I go, O'er hedge and lands, Through pools and ponds, I hurry, laughing, ho, ho, ho...
Page 15 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man.
Page 16 - Athenian Letters, or the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Page 10 - Twixt one another secretly: I mark their gloze, And it disclose To them whom they have wronged so: When I have done, I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho ho ho ! When men do traps and engines...
Page 8 - The shade of youthful Hope is there, That linger'd long, and latest died ; Ambition all dissolved to air, With phantom honours at her side. What empty shadows glimmer nigh ! They once were Friendship, Truth, and Love ! Oh, die to thought, to memory die, Since lifeless to my heart ye prove ! w.
Page 9 - Pictorial History of England. Being a History of the People as well as a History of the Kingdom, down to the Reign of George III.
Page 24 - WOODWARD'S (BB, BA) HISTORY OF WALES. From the Earliest Times to its Final Incorporation with England ; with Notices of . its Physical Geography, and the Poetry, Traditions, Religion, Arts, Manners, and Laws of the Welsh, with Fifteen Steel Plates.
Page 28 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Page 10 - Our owne is all we do desire. If to repay They do delay, Abroad amongst them then I go, And night by night I them affright With pinchings, dreames, and ho, ho, ho!