Pickings from my portfolio: or, Pièces in verse, and pictures in prose, by the author of 'A century of acrostics'. |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
balmy gales BEACON beaming beauteous beauty BEN CRUACHAN BEN NEVIS BEN-MAC-DUI big BEN bold Brecon Beacons bright brighter CAMBRIA'S pride CENTURY OF ACROSTICS charms cheer CHLOROFORM's CLEVEDON coachman cries delight Descriptive and Bumorous DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM dream e'en e'er fair fame feet Flat Holmes friends gainst gaze glorious gout gown grace grand happy haste height HELVELLYN huge jokes knows LANGDALE PIKES Leigh Woods LINES DESCRIPTIVE look'd looks lord lordly loud merry mighty MINEHEAD MONARCH OF MOUNTAINS mongst Mont Blanc moun nought once peaceful pleas'd PORTISHEAD praises Priest prospect proud Reigning o'er Rich orchards rocky round SCA-FELL scarce senses fail SKIDDAW SKYRRID smiling SNOWDON song sounds Squire storm summer joys sure sweet t'ward thee thou thought three distinct heads thy fir-clad hill towers tread Twere long vale vapoury view I change village WESTON WESTON-SUPER-MARE wild wild warriors Winter wonder
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 53 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
الصفحة 53 - ... winter -is going, or, if coming, is not likely to be a severe one. On the contrary, I put up a petition, annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us.