This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...Silent the goddess gazed, then pitying smiled, And stayed her hand, and left her still a child. Last the Pedestrians clamour at Fame's door, 730 Three gentlemen, a lady, and no more; If more there be that thus unmounted go, Their names I know not, may I never know! A smartish roadster Houghton does not lack, And ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...Silent the goddess gazed, then pitying smiled, And stayed her hand, and left her still a child. Last the Pedestrians clamour at Fame's door, 730 Three gentlemen, a lady, and no more; If more there be that thus unmounted go, Their names I know not, may I never know! A smartish roadster Houghton does not lack, And Francis74 owns, and Owen rides a hack; 735 Sometimes he steals it, and sometimes he begs: E'en Kingsley75 keeps a something on three legs. 73 Miss Christina Eossetti, authoress of the "Groblin Market," and other short pieces. I never read anything so arch and original as these poems; they remind one a good deal of Walter Scott's little friend Margery. 74 Sir Francis Doyle. 75 And, under the circumstances, goes better than one would expect. These wisely feel, however fools may talk, Tis safer and 'tis easier to walk. plRSt gentle Ingelow,76 like Prose at play, --740 No pushing, Patmore! for the fair make way: Noblesse oblige, and if your boast is true, That no one sings so sillily as you; Then none can waive so gracefully a right, Tis Greatness' privilege to be polite. 745 p Race there is, was always, will be still, Say prophets, and say pedants, what they will--A race there is, that thrives in Britain's air, In France, Rome, Gaza, Sion, everywhere; Who, there, or here, help nations to be great, 750 And form the sure foundation of a state: Whate'er their creed, dress, country, or their name The same, and, e'en in Ireland, still the same. 76 Miss Jean Ingelow, authoress of the " Story of Doom," and other poems. Here, in this island, these their habits are--They read not much, nor care to travel far, 755 P&y taxes, beat their spouses now and then, Get drunk at times to show they're Englishmen, Believe in God, like eating what the...
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