The Children's Miscellany: In which is Included The History of Little Jack, by Thomas Day, Esq |
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... delighted him with its innocent careffes . Gentle Nanny too , the goat , feemed to adopt him with equal tenderness as her offspring : fhe would ftretch herself out upon the ground , while he crawled upon his hands and knees towards her ...
... delighted him with its innocent careffes . Gentle Nanny too , the goat , feemed to adopt him with equal tenderness as her offspring : fhe would ftretch herself out upon the ground , while he crawled upon his hands and knees towards her ...
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... delighted with this first dawn of reason , used to place him upon his knee , and converse with him for hours together , while his pottage was flowly boiling amid the embers of a turf fire . As he grew bigger , Jack became of ...
... delighted with this first dawn of reason , used to place him upon his knee , and converse with him for hours together , while his pottage was flowly boiling amid the embers of a turf fire . As he grew bigger , Jack became of ...
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... delighted him very much , for he always had a propensity for every species of drollery . After a variety of questions and conversation , the show- man , who probably wanted to be rid of his mon- key , proposed to Jack to purchase him ...
... delighted him very much , for he always had a propensity for every species of drollery . After a variety of questions and conversation , the show- man , who probably wanted to be rid of his mon- key , proposed to Jack to purchase him ...
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... delighted with this effort of Jack's ingenuity , that , after paying him the highest compliments , he intimated a de- fire of having fuch a faddle for himself . Jack was the moft obliging creature in the world , and fpared no labour to ...
... delighted with this effort of Jack's ingenuity , that , after paying him the highest compliments , he intimated a de- fire of having fuch a faddle for himself . Jack was the moft obliging creature in the world , and fpared no labour to ...
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... delight only in cruelty , mankind were in the most miserable fituation , unable ei- ther to refist the power of the tyrant , or escape from his dominions , as there was no country out of the limits of the Roman empire that was not ...
... delight only in cruelty , mankind were in the most miserable fituation , unable ei- ther to refist the power of the tyrant , or escape from his dominions , as there was no country out of the limits of the Roman empire that was not ...
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Page 193 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Page 193 - Well done! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he? His fame soon spread around; He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
Page 194 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Page 202 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 202 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 196 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
Page 195 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Page 192 - So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 198 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 201 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.