Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 71869 - 2 pages |
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... turned opera - singer . As soon as I could write a decent hand , some good - natured person got me a situation in the office of an attorney and land - agent . I began as the youngest and lowest of clerks - a sort of cross between a mes ...
... turned opera - singer . As soon as I could write a decent hand , some good - natured person got me a situation in the office of an attorney and land - agent . I began as the youngest and lowest of clerks - a sort of cross between a mes ...
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... turned into confidence and pride when I began to sing in the choir of our church on Sundays . I paused not in my progress until I had actually been promoted to the post of primo tenore there , at a remuneration of twenty pounds a - year ...
... turned into confidence and pride when I began to sing in the choir of our church on Sundays . I paused not in my progress until I had actually been promoted to the post of primo tenore there , at a remuneration of twenty pounds a - year ...
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... turned away is before me now . I see it clearly - as clearly as then . The hills - we used to think them mountains - that embraced the long narrow stretch of bay in their arms ; the far line of the horizon ; the straggling white town ...
... turned away is before me now . I see it clearly - as clearly as then . The hills - we used to think them mountains - that embraced the long narrow stretch of bay in their arms ; the far line of the horizon ; the straggling white town ...
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... turned to Christina Braun , she seemed too calm and silent , and too fond of music . In those days I did not much care for any singing but my own . There are only too many people who , if they would but confess it , are in just the same ...
... turned to Christina Braun , she seemed too calm and silent , and too fond of music . In those days I did not much care for any singing but my own . There are only too many people who , if they would but confess it , are in just the same ...
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... turned deliberately away from home , and straggled , like the town , downhill to the water . From the door I had just quitted I could hear the creak- ing of the spars of ships that tossed and dragged at their anchors , the whistling of ...
... turned deliberately away from home , and straggled , like the town , downhill to the water . From the door I had just quitted I could hear the creak- ing of the spars of ships that tossed and dragged at their anchors , the whistling of ...
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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.