Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn, Volume 2Redfield, 1855 |
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Page 141 - That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a printing-press ; (say that of Minerva;) publishers do actually talk of striking off an impression ; and every one knows, that to strike and to smite are synonymous, and the words
Page 182 - Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst. Death makes, as becomes him, a great figure in this " Lament" —but in rather curious operations. He is alternately a person, a thing, nothing, &c. He is, " The coming bulk of Death," Then " Death feeds on the mute voice.
Page 85 - Linendraper has been sufficiently apparent; but it is much more striking after they have fairly started. " So, fair and softly, John he cried, But John he cried in vain, That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb or rein. "So stooping down, as needs
Page 12 - Story! God bless you? I have none to tell, sir; Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers, This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were Torn in a scuffle. " Constables came up for to take me into Custody; they took me before the justice; Justice Oldmixon put me in the
Page 86 - the break of day, And on he foamed, away, away !' " In one very remarkable particular, John Gilpin is distinguished from Mazeppa. " So stooping down, as needs he must, Who cannot sit upright, He grasped the mane with both his hands, And eke with nil his might.
Page 177 - lie is dead! O, weep for Adonais ! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head ! And thou, sad hour! selected from all years To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow, say with me Died Adonais! till the future
Page 12 - should be glad to drink your honor's health in A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence; But for my part I never love to meddle With politics, sir." Friend of Humanity. " /give thee sixpence ! I will see thce damn'd first, Wretch, whom no sense of wrongs can
Page 86 - bridle-hand, but afterwards conceived it more salutary to embrace the neck of his Bucephalus. This, however, is a circumstance scarcely worth mentioning. Lord Byron then goes on to say, " Away, away, my steed and I, Upon the pinions of the wind!" And Cowper in like manner writes, " Away went Gilpin neck or nought, Away went
Page 96 - by lago in the Second Act of Othello. King Stephen was a worthy peer, His breeches cost him but a crown, He held them sixpence all too dear, And so he call'd the tailor loon. He was a king, and wore a crown, Thou art a squire of low degree ; 'Tis pride that pulls the country down, So take thy old cloak about
Page 32 - that I can drynke With him that weares a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I am nothing a colde; I stuff my skyn so full within, Of jolly good ale and olde. Backe and side go bare, go bare, Both foote and hande go colde ; But,