The Ingoldsby Legends, Or, Mirth and Marvels

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R. Bentley, 1865 - 511 páginas
 

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Página 68 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 118 - Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and abbot and prior were there; Many a monk, and many a friar, Many a knight, and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree, — In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books, or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims!
Página 44 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Página 120 - He cursed him in coughing, in sneezing, in winking; He cursed him in sitting in standing, in lying; He cursed him in walking, in riding, in flying ; He cursed him in living, he cursed him dying ! Never was heard such a terrible curse ! But what gave rise to no little surprise, Nobody seemed one penny the worse...
Página 118 - The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair ! Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there; Many a monk, and many a friar, Many a knight, and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree, — In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.
Página 121 - twas really absurd. He grew sleek and fat; In addition to that, A fresh crop of feathers came thick as a mat. ' His tail waggled more Even than before; But no longer it wagged with an impudent air, No longer he perched on the Cardinal's chair.
Página 511 - As I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, Sadly sang the Birde as she sat upon the tree ! There seem'da crimson plain, Where a gallant Knyghte lay slayne, And a steed with broken rein Ran free, As I laye a-thynkynge...
Página 177 - My Lord Tomnoddy jump'd up at the news, ' Run to M'Fuze, And Lieutenant Tregooze, And run to Sir Carnaby Jenks, of the Blues. Rope-dancers a score I've seen before — Madame Sacchi, Antonio, and Master Black-more ; But to see a man swing...
Página 306 - Mrs. Jones ! what do you think ? — ain't this a pretty go?— — That horrid little vulgar Boy whom I brought here to-night, — He's stolen my things and run away...
Página 119 - The Devil must be in that Little Jackdaw ! " The feast was over, the board was cleared, The flawns and the custards had all disappeared, And six little Singing-boys, — dear little souls In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles, — Came, in order due, Two by two, Marching that grand refectory through ! A nice little boy held a golden ewer, Embossed and filled with water, as pure As any that flows between Rheims and Namur.

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