... pander to courtly authority—who have tainted the Castallan spring by a mixture of the waters of corruption ;—t , ese few natural notes are enough to make them scorn their worse than Egyptian bondage, and Aare, for a moment, all the gloss and glitter which ...

... a bird of education; such as is usually termed a piping bullfinch. In the first instance a few accidentally thrown out natural notes, or calls, had attracted three or four of his kindred feather, who had now taken their stations not far distant from the ...