Sir Frank Lockwood: A Biographical Sketch

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Smith, Elder & Company, 1898 - 226 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 67 - You should have heard the Hamelin people Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple; "Go," cried the Mayor, "and get long poles ! Poke out the nests and block up the holes ! Consult with carpenters and builders, And leave in our town not even a trace Of the rats !" — when suddenly up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place, With a, "First, if you please, my thousand guilders !" A thousand guilders ! The Mayor looked blue, So did the Corporation too.
Strana 181 - Hell, athirst alway ? I do not see them here ; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. " I am thyself, — what hast thou done to me? " "And I — and I — thyself," (lo ! each one saith,) " And thou thyself to all eternity !
Strana 80 - JAMES WHITE is extinct, and with him these suppers have long ceased. He carried away with him half the fun of the world when he died — of my world at least.
Strana 162 - Tis true — then why should I repine To see my life so fast decline ? But why obscurely here alone, Where I am neither loved nor known? My state of health none care to learn ; My life is here no soul's concern : And those with whom I now converse Without a tear will tend my hearse.
Strana 164 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Strana 208 - Times* THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN HAWLEY GLOVER, RN, GCMG By Lady GLOVER. Edited by the Right Hon. Sir RICHARD TEMPLE, Bart., GCSI, DCL, LL.D., FRS With Portrait and Maps.
Strana 208 - Miss Edwards has done her task with a reserve and succinctness to be much commended. She deserves well of all who hold in honour the memory of one who ever strove manfully to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before.
Strana 80 - I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard — I had them av regularly entered, first wi' rottens — then wi' stots or weasels — and then wi' the tods and brocks — and now they fear naething that ever cam wi
Strana 208 - FROM GRAVE TO GAY : being Essays and Studies concerned with Certain Subjects of Serious Interest, with the Puritans, with Literature, and with the Humours of Life, now for the first time collected and arranged.
Strana 207 - With 2 Portraits of Shakespeare, a Portrait of the Earl of Southampton, and Facsimiles of Shakespeare's known Signatures. Crown 8vo.

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