Peace Campaigns of a Cornet, Том 2

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J. Ebers, 1829
 

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Стр. 139 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Стр. 216 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Стр. 119 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Стр. 7 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Стр. 13 - The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty.
Стр. 151 - He felt that chilling heaviness of heart, Or rather stomach, which, alas! attends, Beyond the best apothecary's art, The loss of Love, the treachery of friends, Or death of those we dote on, when a part Of us dies with them as each fond hope ends: No doubt he would have been much more pathetic, But the sea acted as a strong emetic.
Стр. 163 - O Memory ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain...
Стр. 29 - tis the course of love, and still approved, When women cannot love where they're beloved . SHAKSPEARE.
Стр. 97 - Who dares this pair of boots displace, " Must meet Bombastes face to face.
Стр. 13 - Russ. 739. If a man deliberately shoot at A. and miss him, but kill B., this is murder : 1 Hale, 438. So where A. gave a poisoned apple to his wife, intending to poison her, and the wife, ignorant of the matter, gave it to a child who took it and died, this was held murder in A., though he, being present at the time, endeavoured to dissuade his wife from giving the apple to the child...

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