Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 71869 - 2 pages |
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... brought up . We were the only children - I the elder by a year - and my father died when I was six years old . He had owned fishing - boats , and was doing well , until , at the instigation of my mother , he unfortunately took to ...
... brought up . We were the only children - I the elder by a year - and my father died when I was six years old . He had owned fishing - boats , and was doing well , until , at the instigation of my mother , he unfortunately took to ...
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... brought severe and direct condem- nation from offended pulpits . And so I had heard of the place in question , and had even been making up my mind to visit it before chance sent me there as the special commissioner of Miss Griffin . The ...
... brought severe and direct condem- nation from offended pulpits . And so I had heard of the place in question , and had even been making up my mind to visit it before chance sent me there as the special commissioner of Miss Griffin . The ...
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... brought such tender interest and anxiety about me ; but I was not delighted . The one thing present to my mind all through was that I had been " licked , " and that she saw it . " Earl Percy sees my fall , " is the reflection that lends ...
... brought such tender interest and anxiety about me ; but I was not delighted . The one thing present to my mind all through was that I had been " licked , " and that she saw it . " Earl Percy sees my fall , " is the reflection that lends ...
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... brought about in the relations of the personages of this story . There was first a sort of break - down in the arrangements of the choir , and one Sunday the audience had to be content with merely an instrumental perform- ance . Soon a ...
... brought about in the relations of the personages of this story . There was first a sort of break - down in the arrangements of the choir , and one Sunday the audience had to be content with merely an instrumental perform- ance . Soon a ...
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... brought staid Addison to the club to celebrate the great Whig festival of the Orange accession . Addison was silent and cold till he had had his bottle ; and Steele had to drink " The immortal memory , " till his own began to be rather ...
... brought staid Addison to the club to celebrate the great Whig festival of the Orange accession . Addison was silent and cold till he had had his bottle ; and Steele had to drink " The immortal memory , " till his own began to be rather ...
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Page 549 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 50 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 537 - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all ; for, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Page 477 - ... about my knowledge of this wretched man. From what he had over and over again told me, it was certain that he had come to London for the purpose of shaming his brother into supplying him with new funds, and it was evident that there was no extravagant escapade or exposure of which the little wretch would not be capable. On the whole, then, it seemed to me that the best thing I could do would be to see Mr Lyndon at once, and put him on his guard. Mr Lyndon too might, like a sensible man of the...
Page 285 - ... when there was so much of it in the scales, as would equal the weight of seventy-two pence,* he caused the chaplains to make six candles thereof, each of equal length, so that each candle might have twelve divisions! marked longitudinally upon it. By this plan, therefore, those six candles burned for twenty-four hours, a night and day, without fail...
Page 498 - We were but five minutes together, and on the public road ; but I hardly recollect an hour of my existence which could be weighed against them.
Page 57 - Upon which Bligh, who was sitting opposite to him, calmly produced two loaded pistols from his coat pocket, which he placed on the table, and said, " Mr. Brummell, if you are really desirous to put a period to your existence, I am extremely happy to offer you the means without troubling the waiter.
Page 362 - I have hardly a notion, that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared on our stage. The wonderful agony which he appeared in, when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in Othello...
Page 498 - This meeting annihilated for a moment all the years between the present time and the days of Harrow. It was a new and inexplicable feeling, like rising from the grave, to me. Clare, too, was much agitated — more in appearance than even myself; for I could feel his heart beat to his fingers' ends, unless, indeed, it was the pulse of my own which made me think so.
Page 500 - My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me to do justice to his own genius, which, malgre all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise. His fragment of Hyperion seems actually inspired by the Titans, and is as sublime as /Eschylus.