LAURENCE STERNE. 1713-1768. Tristram Shandy. Vol. ii. Chapter xii. Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Vol. iii. Chapter ix. Great wits jump.* Vol. iii. Chapter xi. Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, but nothing to this. Vol. vi. Chapter viii. The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever. SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. Page 1. "They order," said I, "this matter better in France." *"Good witts will jumpe." Dr. Cougham, Camden Soc. Pub., p. 20. And, when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. The Music-Grinders. You think they are crusaders, sent JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. The Vision of Sir Launfal. And what is so rare as a day in June? Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, The Changeling. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bless it upon my breast; And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to KEY. GREENE. UHLAND. CRANCH. 291 F. S. KEY. The Star-spangled Banner. The star-spangled banner, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave bought. Old To build his chimney higher. From ALBERT G. GREENom pissing Old Grimes. Old Grimes is dead; that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more: He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. on the fire. 178 JOHN LOUIS UHLAND. The Passage. Translated by Mrs. Sarah Austin. Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee; Take, I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me. CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH. Stanzas. Thought is deeper than all speech; Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. EATON STANNARD BARRETT. Woman. Not she with trait'rous kiss her Master stung, MISS FANNY STEERS. Song. The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken DAVID MALLET. 1700-1765. Tyburn. While tumbling down the turbid stream, JOHN PHILIPS. 1676-1708. Splendid Shilling. Line 121. My galligaskins, that have long withstood THOMAS A KEMPIS. 1380-1471. Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chapter 19. Man proposes, but God disposes.* Book i. Chapter 23. And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. Book iii. Chapter 12. Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. FRANCIS RABELAIS. 1483-1553. Translated by Urquhart and Motteux. Book i. Chapter 1. Note 2. To return to our muttons Book i. Chapter 5. To drink no more than a sponge. Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. *This expression is of much greater antiquity; it appears in the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from 1066 to 1176, page 27, Lower's Translation, and also in Piers' Ploughman's Vision, line 13994. |