Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Volume 3author, 1795 - Anecdotes |
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... King of Sicily , to whom he had given the command of a fleet to oppose the enterprises of Robert , King of Naples , was defeated at fea , and made prisoner . For want of of power , or out of refentment , the King ( 15 )
... King of Sicily , to whom he had given the command of a fleet to oppose the enterprises of Robert , King of Naples , was defeated at fea , and made prisoner . For want of of power , or out of refentment , the King ( 15 )
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... King of Sicily did not redeem his brother , whofe ranfom amounted to twelve thousand florins . The hand- fome Meffinian offered the fum to Roland , on condition that he should efpoufe her . Seeing no other means of escaping from his ...
... King of Sicily did not redeem his brother , whofe ranfom amounted to twelve thousand florins . The hand- fome Meffinian offered the fum to Roland , on condition that he should efpoufe her . Seeing no other means of escaping from his ...
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... time ! ANECDOTE K OF KING ΡΕΡΙΝ . ING PEPIN of France , who flourished in the year 750 , was furnamed the Short , from his low ftature , which fome courtiers used to to make a subject of ridicule . These freedoms reaching ( 18 )
... time ! ANECDOTE K OF KING ΡΕΡΙΝ . ING PEPIN of France , who flourished in the year 750 , was furnamed the Short , from his low ftature , which fome courtiers used to to make a subject of ridicule . These freedoms reaching ( 18 )
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... fuch ftrength ; and the King , with an heroic loftiness , faid to them , " David was a little man ; yet he laid low the infolent giant , who had dared to defnif him " D 2 ANEC- ANECDOTE W OF QUEEN ELIZABETH . HEN Queen Elizabeth was ( 19 )
... fuch ftrength ; and the King , with an heroic loftiness , faid to them , " David was a little man ; yet he laid low the infolent giant , who had dared to defnif him " D 2 ANEC- ANECDOTE W OF QUEEN ELIZABETH . HEN Queen Elizabeth was ( 19 )
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... KING OF FRANCE . K ING Henry would have his children call him Papa , or Father , and not Sir , which was the new fashion introduced by Catherine de Medicis , Medicis . He ufed frequently to join in their amufements ( * 22 )
... KING OF FRANCE . K ING Henry would have his children call him Papa , or Father , and not Sir , which was the new fashion introduced by Catherine de Medicis , Medicis . He ufed frequently to join in their amufements ( * 22 )
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Page 229 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 231 - Is more than hospitably good. Then, led to rest, the day's long toil they drown, Deep sunk in sleep, and silk, and heaps of down. At length 'tis morn, and at the dawn of day Along the wide canals the zephyrs play ; Fresh o'er the gay parterres the breezes creep.
Page 140 - cease your pother ; The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught the animal last night And viewed it o'er by candle-light : I marked it well ; 'twas black as jet — You stare — but, sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it.' — ' Pray, sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue.
Page 191 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; But lost, dissolved in thy superior rays, One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze O'erflow thy courts; the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine!
Page 139 - gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his...
Page 191 - See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend...
Page 177 - ... they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame.
Page 227 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Page 20 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 233 - Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care, And half he welcomes in the shivering pair...