The Boston Miscellanies: A Collection of Articles on Various Subjects1849 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 28 - Commend me to thy lovely lady, Bear to her this chain of gold, And these bracelets for a token; Grieving that I was so bold : All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me.
Pàgina 27 - To favour him in any thing she was not coy. But at last there came commandment For to set the ladies free, With their jewels still adorned, None to do them injury.
Pàgina 42 - ... till the foot came to the edge of our ledge, where it was lashed in firmly to the neck. We then hauled away on the guy to steady it, and made it fast ; a line was passed over by the lead-line to hold on, and up went Lloyd, screeching and hallooing, and we all three scrambled after him.
Pàgina 42 - I was under the neck. And a more extraordinary situation I never was in. The head, which is an enormous mass of rock about thirty-five feet in height, overhangs its base many feet on every side. A ledge of tolerably level rock runs round three sides of the base, about six feet in width, bounded...
Pàgina 41 - A grapnel- line had been also left last year, but was not used. A Negro of Lloyd's clambered from the top of the ladder by the cleft in the face of the rock, not 'trusting his weight to the old and rotten line. He carried a small cord round his middle, and it was...
Pàgina 27 - WILL you hear a Spanish lady. How shee wooed an English man ? Garments gay as rich as may be Decked with jewels she had on. Of a comely countenance and grace was she, And by birth and parentage of high degree.
Pàgina 46 - O, let its memory, like a chain about thee, Gently compel and hasten thy return ! Linger not long. Though crowds should woo thy staying, Bethink thee, can the mirth of friends, though dear, Compensate for the grief thy long delaying Costs the fond heart that sighs to have thee here ? Linger not long.
Pàgina 27 - Spaniards fraught with jealousy we often find, But English men throughout the world are counted kind. ' Leave me not unto a Spaniard ; You alone enjoy my heart ; I am lovely, young, and tender, And so love is my desert.
Pàgina 28 - Here comes all that breeds the strife ; I in England have already A sweet woman to my wife : I will not falsify my vow for gold or gain, Nor yet for all the fairest dames that live in Spain.
Pàgina 42 - The head, which is an enormous mass of rock about thirty-five feet in height, overhangs its base many feet on every side. A ledge of tolerably level rock runs round three sides of the base, about six feet in width, bounded everywhere by the abrupt edge of the precipice, except in the spot where it is joined by the ridge up which we climbed. In one spot the head, overhanging its base several feet, reaches only perpendicularly over the edge of the precipice ; and, most fortunately, it was at the very...