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... For 1 scarce knowv a man who has 5o E llfILEt. NV St THE VOICE OF NITURE. LProm Lamarfina,] The winds a powerful languagc speak,. t In gentle gale or tempest bleak; d The thunder and the lightning dread; f The waves that rush o'er ocean's bed: ° The moon ...

Poetry

... him in. The drunkard exclaims I- Fill my cup to the brim, I n water life sinks; but in brandy 'twill swim ; He dies as he speaks, and I make sure of him : I gather him in, I gather him in. The rich man observes his poor neighbour look old, And hugs himself ...

PETER PLYMLEY'S LETTERS.—LITERARY LYING

... sold. We feel rather sorry that the Rev. Sydney Smith, a after imitating the equivocations, mental reservations, and, to speak plainly, the downright falsehoods of Sir Walter Scott in his denials of identity with The Great Unknown, did not also imitate ...

THE SWIMMING OF MAN AND OF OTHER ANIMALS

... the experiment, but to adopt the caution as the * forlorn hope, when he has no other chance left. Some eccentric writer, speaking of the physical capacities of man and other animals, says, -- Place a blind puppy, a kitten, or a sucking pig in the water ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1834
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 929 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

RAPID INTELLIGENCE

... OF THE RAILWAY To ThE OTHER s BY MEANS OF SPEAKING TUBES. , d A correspondent has been pleased to ask our opinion respect. o ing the practicability of conveying a message, by means of e what are called speaking pipes, instantaneously, through the 0 whole ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1831
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LIVERPOOL FREEMEN

... meantime we would recommend Mr. Holmes, when next the talking fit is on him, and he has oc- casion to speak of such men as Mr. Rathbone,' to speak with proper respect of his betters, or rather, to remember the adage, No sutor ultra crepidam. We believe ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1833
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... face, 'Where each soft virtue must have fix'd her seat In characters my muse despairs to trace. The tremulous beaming of thy speaking eye Emits, I ween, inspiring rays of light ?? care or joy, like seraph of the sky, Softens with grief, or dazzles with delight; ...

Poetry

... eye to think our parting near- Fain would I speak how deeply In my breast Will the cemembranee of your kindness rest: Fain would I tell, but words are cold and vreak- It'is the heart, the heart alone can speak. The wanderer may rejoice to view once more ...

RAPID CONVEYANCE OF INTELLIGENCE

... of Rapid Intelligence. Che .-,Iostantnneotss Communication from one -End of the lirge C Tunnel to the other, by means of Speaking ITubes, -e noi ee `tre what some of'our brother editors had said on the subject; and 110C we have ttow to ?? titat the able ...

Published: Friday 13 May 1831
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 582 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1832

... concede any thing in order to avert the almost certain alternative of immediate hostilities. Royal speeches are not, generally speaking, remark. able for strict veracity, and we cannot except that part of the speech under consideration where the Dutch King ...

Published: Friday 19 October 1832
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... Bethlehem shed its ray On seuls benighted in our native land! Labours of love, for royal fa sour meet ! And it aright that speaking face I read, One sufferer's blessing were to thee more sweet Than courtly incense, or than flattery's meed. Then, if such ...