Hungarian Poems and Fables for English ReadersEdward Dundas Butler Trübner and Company, 1877 - 88 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Allah amongst art thou Autumn Balmy Sleep beautiful bell-wether bérczi kápolna best modern Hungarian bird boasting bosom Brassai and H bright BRITISH MUSEUM Buda Butterfly canst charms child clouds cool cordial creature dance death desert doth dove E'en ELHAGYOTT English Readers ev'ry exclaimed eyes Fables and Allegories favourable notice taken flower fond Fortune's hand GLOW-WORM greyhound grief hand should bless hare hath heart hope Hungarian Poems hunter Hunyad journey kiss Liberty's live Love LUDGATE HILL LYNX MAGPIE Magyar maid maiden marriage moth mother Mountain Chapel Mussulman ne'er neath NYÚL o'er onwards ösz path pesti Szemle Peterdi pleasures pray presence would banish rain replied rest RÓKA shepherd sigh song soon sorrow soul spring stars STORK SZÉP thee thine thirst thou hast TRANSLATED BY E.
D. traveller trembling Vasárnapi Ujság wander weary whereupon whilst whole flock wilt wind wing WINGED HORSE Wisdom wolf yellow-hammer
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Page 43 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 48 - A STROLLING Italian had an ape and a bear, which he made to dance before the crowd, to the sound of a pipe. Bruin had once just finished his tiresome dance, and with exhausted body and gloomy spirits, was resting himself, when the silly ape leaped upon him, and with...
Page 65 - Long-ears, not being gifted with prophecy, stared at his master with a stupid expression. " Well ! there will be some kind of weather ; thus much I can say, my little master," replied he, at length, with sagacious gravity.
Page 64 - ... unworthy complaints. He is too compassionate to punish thy folly ; and see, yet once again will he grant thee the rain which thou hast cursed!" " Learn then, mortal, from thine own case, that the order of nature and the destiny of man are in such wise, powerful, and merciful hands, that if ye eons of earth could but observe them as we heavenly beings do, you would be lost in gratitude.