The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature:: A Collection of Essays, Narratives, Allegories and Instructive CompositionsS. Hodgson, and the booksellers in general., 1806 - 340 pages |
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... uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's house in town , in order to lay fome of the fineft fieges to fome of the fineft fortified cities in Europe - when my uncle Toby was one evening getting his fupper , with Trim ...
... uncle Toby and Trim had privately decamped from my father's house in town , in order to lay fome of the fineft fieges to fome of the fineft fortified cities in Europe - when my uncle Toby was one evening getting his fupper , with Trim ...
Page 93
... uncle Toby ; and thou fhalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , -and take a couple of ... uncle Toby , as the landlord fhut the door , he is a very compaffionate fellow -Trim , yet I cannot help entertaining a ...
... uncle Toby ; and thou fhalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glafs of fack thyfelf , -and take a couple of ... uncle Toby , as the landlord fhut the door , he is a very compaffionate fellow -Trim , yet I cannot help entertaining a ...
Page 94
... uncle Toby the cor- poral made his bow.— -My uncle Toby proceeded no farther , but finished his pipe . Trim ! faid my uncle Toby , I have a project in my head , as it is a bad night , of wrapping myself up warm in my roquelaure , and ...
... uncle Toby the cor- poral made his bow.— -My uncle Toby proceeded no farther , but finished his pipe . Trim ! faid my uncle Toby , I have a project in my head , as it is a bad night , of wrapping myself up warm in my roquelaure , and ...
Page 95
... uncle Toby -I'll tell your honour , replied the corporal , every thing ftraight forwards as I learnt it - Then , Trim , I'll fill another pipe , faid my uncle Toby , and not in- terrupt thee till thou haft done ; fo fit down at thy eafe ...
... uncle Toby -I'll tell your honour , replied the corporal , every thing ftraight forwards as I learnt it - Then , Trim , I'll fill another pipe , faid my uncle Toby , and not in- terrupt thee till thou haft done ; fo fit down at thy eafe ...
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... uncle Toby , -he has been bred up from an infant in the army , and the name of a foldier , Trim , founded in his ears like the name of a friend ; -I wish I had him here . -I never , in the longest march , said the corporal , had so ...
... uncle Toby , -he has been bred up from an infant in the army , and the name of a foldier , Trim , founded in his ears like the name of a friend ; -I wish I had him here . -I never , in the longest march , said the corporal , had so ...
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Page 281 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive — a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a Branch arise Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies: Th' Ethereal Spirit o'er its leaves shall move, And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Page 177 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Page 177 - Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
Page 300 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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Page 306 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 264 - ... sense of their fidelity and attachment, and would carry the remembrance of it along with him to the place of his retreat, as his...
Page 282 - Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day: 'Tis he th' obstructed paths of sound shall clear And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Page 179 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.
Page 305 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled Nor had he where to rest his head.