The Children's Miscellany: In which is Included The History of Little Jack, by Thomas Day, EsqJohn Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1797 - 325 pages |
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... kind and charitable , affift my feeble endeavours ? —At least , let me give it food and lodging for this night ; for without I receive it into my cottage , the poor abandoned wretch must perish with cold before the morning . Say- ing ...
... kind and charitable , affift my feeble endeavours ? —At least , let me give it food and lodging for this night ; for without I receive it into my cottage , the poor abandoned wretch must perish with cold before the morning . Say- ing ...
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... kind of exer- cife . In a fhort time after this , Jack began to imitate the founds of his рара , the man , and his mamma , the goat ; nor was it long before he learned to speak articulately . The old man , delighted with this first dawn ...
... kind of exer- cife . In a fhort time after this , Jack began to imitate the founds of his рара , the man , and his mamma , the goat ; nor was it long before he learned to speak articulately . The old man , delighted with this first dawn ...
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... kind of work he was able to perform . But , by ill luck , this good - natured farmer contracted a fever , by over - heating himself in the harveft , and died in the beginning of winter . His wife was therefore obliged to discharge her ...
... kind of work he was able to perform . But , by ill luck , this good - natured farmer contracted a fever , by over - heating himself in the harveft , and died in the beginning of winter . His wife was therefore obliged to discharge her ...
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... kind- nefs ? Can you never refrain a fingle instant from broils and fighting ? But I am determined to bear it no longer ; and therefore you shall never , from this hour , do a single stroke of work for me . ” " Sir , " replied Jack ...
... kind- nefs ? Can you never refrain a fingle instant from broils and fighting ? But I am determined to bear it no longer ; and therefore you shall never , from this hour , do a single stroke of work for me . ” " Sir , " replied Jack ...
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... kind master , and once more fallied out upon his travels . He had not walked far before he came to a town , where a party of foldiers were beating up for volunteers . Jack mingled with the crowd that surrounded the recruiting ferjeant ...
... kind master , and once more fallied out upon his travels . He had not walked far before he came to a town , where a party of foldiers were beating up for volunteers . Jack mingled with the crowd that surrounded the recruiting ferjeant ...
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Page 193 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Page 193 - Well done! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin — who but he? His fame soon spread around; He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
Page 194 - Said Gilpin — So am I ! But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined to tarry there ; For why? — his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew, Shot by an archer strong ; So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Page 202 - Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 202 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 196 - Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast ! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before.
Page 195 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case.
Page 192 - So fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Page 198 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 201 - Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn; "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.