Thomas Moore:
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore - Livro de bolso
ISBN: 9781236713117
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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 68 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.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. 1922 Excerpt: . . . included as (1) Tall Coppice, (2) Underwood. 5 1 In the sixteenth century Camden (1586) records forests as the feature of Oxford scenery. Shotover was a forest in which Miltons grandfather was a ranger. Waste and moor stretched across Bullingdon to Magdalen Bridge. Much of the forest was cut down during the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth a mania for enclosure set in, and in the nineteenth everything left was enclosed on some pretext or another. The twentieth century sees, with minor exceptions, the general public denied access to the residual traces. 1 Plot (1705), Natural History of Oxfordshire, p. 165. Orr (1916), Agriculture in Oxfordshire, p. 193, Statistics. 4 Plot (1705), p. 5a. The hills, tis true, before the late unhappy wars, were well enough beset with woods, where now tis so scarce, that tis a common thing to sell it by weight, and not only at Oxford, but at many other places in the northern parts of the shire; where it is brought to Market, it is ordinarily sold for about one shilling the Hundred, but if remote from a great town, it may be had for sevenpence. After another war (1921), rough wood sold at 35s. a load, with 10s. for cartage from Bagley or Kadley, retailed as wood blocks at 2s. per cwt. , or u. a bushel of 50 lb. 6 Plot, I. e. , p. 267: sold to the meaner sort of people by the Braid of 4 poles. In the former case, scarcely dignified as High Forest, large trees are grown in open canopy for timber and billet-wood, the undergrowth of minor trees being reduced or absent, as the last stage of residual standards or overwood. Trees were extracted as required, and regeneration apparently left to nature, as the last went. In such case a high light-canopy was long maintained, and the herbaceous ground-flora rema. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 70 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.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. 1885 Excerpt: . . . earn, --From the weak brood of ant-hill and bee-hive, Which pioneer the means for men to thrive In study they must burn the midnight oil, --And treats have chiefly as reward of toil, Lest, by experience test, too late they know How true the adage, Light come will light go. On their side candour, sympathy on yours, Compose the combination that ensures The confidence in you they should acquire, The standard high to which they will aspire. Ah! idleness, indulgence, and low aims Have brought discredit on some honoured names, While tempered rigour of a Christian home Stifles the tendency to wayward roam. Desires of flesh and eye will scarce allure To slippery paths and atmosphere impure The lad who, trained to negative polite But firm, avoids the moral plague and blight. Good soldiers yield not: they oppose and fight. Let conscience dominate, the sense of right: Mens conscia recti, twas a heathen made As current phrase as call a spade a spade. But in our day new dangers youth will meet In circumstances hindering retreat; These issue from the professorial chair; The press proclaims them far; they fill the air. They lie not m hard facts now ascertained, Nor demonstrations wrongfully disdained, But the dull vision that declines to see Creative skill in Natures harmony. Unquestionably, too, divines impute To Scripture claims on which itself is mute, --And for its penmen faculties assert Which rouse the critical to controvert. Amid a winsome propaganda youth, Inquisitive, determined to have truth, Seeking in all things at all times fair play, Is apt from moorings to be driven away. Already universities sedate, Full of enthusiasm, loud vociferate Approval and assent, and lads applause Show volunteers and an embattled cause. No longe. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 116 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.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. 1854 Excerpt: . . . Clare sanctions this vulgar provincialism. And soon as chance offerd that she could begin, She gan weigh her doubts to her sen. Clares Village Minstrel, vol. i. p. 157. And, go the week about, nine times in ten Yed find her house as cleanly as her sen. Ibid. vol. ii. p. 96. H. H. C. C. e. l. H. P. H. A. D. SEOX. Six. A vulgar pronunciation, but pure Saxon. SERVER. See Sarvee. SERVE. To serve him out, is to repay, to retaliate. SESSARARA. A good beating or scolding. Moor and Halliwell give Siserara, a hard blow. SESS. A kind of peat turf. Obsolete, I believe; my acquaintance with this term is only through Mortons Natural History. SESS-POOL. See Cess-pool. B. N. C. C. C. F. e. A. H. s. H. P. SET. A collective term. It would be said of a number of disreputable persons. Theyre a bad set. What a set there is of them. If a family are singular in their appearance or conduct, they would be called a queer set. 2. To put milk in a pan, that the cream may rise. Have you set the milk, is a common inquiry of a dairy-maid, after the milk is brought in from the cow. 3. To bind. The gravel sets well. SET. A dead set. A determined effort on the part of one or more individuals; whether it be to defeat an antagonist, or to gain a particular object. H. A. D. SET-DOWN. To mortify;to humiliate; to reprove. I set him down nicely. 2. A rebuke for impertinence or improper assumption. I gave him a good set-dawn i. e. a good reproof. B. N. c. 2nd ed. C. C. H. a. d. SET-OUT. A handsome, bountiful entertainment. They gave us a capital set-out. 2. To plan or contrive work. Lets set it out before we begin, and see if we have stuff enough. SET POOR LIGHTS. To set bad. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 122 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.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. 1857 Excerpt: . . . eighteen hundred and fifty-three, for the payment of claims applicable to said department, accruing during the war with Mexico, and not yet settled by the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops when moving either by land or water, of clothing, camp, and garrison equipage from the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots, horse equipments, and of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent, of ordnance or ordnance stores and small arms, from the foundries and arsenals to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, wharfage. tolls, and forages; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules, and oxen. and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships, and other seagoing vessels, and boats for the transportation of supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters. transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments, the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific, and for procuring water at such posts as from their situation require that it be brought from a distance. seven hundred thousand dollars. For completing the repairs of the branch mint at New Orleans and rendering the same fire-proof, one hundred and twenty thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars. For seamen, s wages, repairs, and incidental expenses of light-vessels. occasioned by damages, loss of moorings, and for necessary expenses in recovering said vessels broken adrift during the late storms and freshets, and by float. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 470 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.9in.Excerpt: . . . A presage that her own dark doom was near, Roused every feeling and brought Reason back Once more to writhe her last upon the rack. All round seemed tranquil even the foe had ceased As if aware of that demoniac feast His fiery bolts; and tho the heavens looked red, Twas but some distant conflagrations spread. But hark-she stops-she listens-dreadful tone! Tis her Tormentors laugh-and now, a groan, A long death-groan comes with it-can this be The place of mirth, the bower of revelry She enters-Holy ALLA, what a sight Was there before her! By the glimmering light Of the pale dawn, mixt with the flare of brands That round lay burning dropt from lifeless hands, She saw the board in splendid mockery spread, Rich censers breathing-garlands overhead- The urns, the cups, from which they late had quaft All gold and gems, but-what had been the draught Oh! who need ask that saw those livid guests, With their swollen heads sunk blackening on their breasts, Or looking pale to Heaven with glassy glare, As if they sought but saw no mercy there; As if they felt, tho poison racked them thro, Remorse the deadlier torment of the two! While some, the bravest, hardiest in the train Of their false Chief, who on the battle-plain Would have met death with transport by his side, Here mute and helpless gasped;-but as they died Lookt horrible vengeance with their eyes last strain, And clenched the slackening hand at him in vain. Dreadful it was to see the ghastly stare, The stony look of horror and despair, Which some of these expiring victims cast Upon their souls tormentor to the last; Upon that mocking Fiend whose Veil now raised, Showed them as in deaths agony they gazed, Not the long promised light, the brow whose beaming Was to come forth, all conquering, all redeeming, But features horribler than Hell eer traced On its own brood;-no Demon of the Waste, 134 No church-yard Ghoul caught lingering in the light Of the blest sun, eer blasted. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<