The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 13Joseph Rogerson - Fashion |
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... thou imagine , 207 Dreams of the silent night , 197 Duetto , 70 Enigmas , 199 , 249 Fairy's web , the , 128 Farewell , 80 , 265 Fisherman's daughter , the , 311 Floral thought , a , 288 Flow on thou stream , 189 Forget me not , 142 ...
... thou imagine , 207 Dreams of the silent night , 197 Duetto , 70 Enigmas , 199 , 249 Fairy's web , the , 128 Farewell , 80 , 265 Fisherman's daughter , the , 311 Floral thought , a , 288 Flow on thou stream , 189 Forget me not , 142 ...
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... Thou hast blest our race before us , Bless us too , and hear our chorus , Hear 1 Hear a father , Who would gather Safety for his children dear ! Hear his daughters , lowly kneeling , Who now crave thy kindly feeling , Hear ! [ The oak ...
... Thou hast blest our race before us , Bless us too , and hear our chorus , Hear 1 Hear a father , Who would gather Safety for his children dear ! Hear his daughters , lowly kneeling , Who now crave thy kindly feeling , Hear ! [ The oak ...
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... thou has nothing so much at heart as the virtue of thy daughters , I shall have it attacked so vigorously that the distaffs of Zerline will run some risk of being soon broken . I have it ! -the three cavaliers who have been wandering ...
... thou has nothing so much at heart as the virtue of thy daughters , I shall have it attacked so vigorously that the distaffs of Zerline will run some risk of being soon broken . I have it ! -the three cavaliers who have been wandering ...
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... thou wilt find us ( all three ) dead with anguish . RICH . Silence still reigns ! RALPH . Just as if we had not sung . BEL . Not to come , too , though I condescended to sing . I am afraid her ear is not very good . RALPH . We must hit ...
... thou wilt find us ( all three ) dead with anguish . RICH . Silence still reigns ! RALPH . Just as if we had not sung . BEL . Not to come , too , though I condescended to sing . I am afraid her ear is not very good . RALPH . We must hit ...
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... thou art doomed to remain a fixture until the return of the Prince de Haut - perché . BEL . How very vulgar ! not be able to move ! it is —— Oh ! I am turning into bronze - Oh ! [ He sinks into the earth . ] FAIRY . As for his ...
... thou art doomed to remain a fixture until the return of the Prince de Haut - perché . BEL . How very vulgar ! not be able to move ! it is —— Oh ! I am turning into bronze - Oh ! [ He sinks into the earth . ] FAIRY . As for his ...
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Page 98 - She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...
Page 129 - Rising in fearless grace with every swell, Thou seem'st as if a spirit meekly brave Dwelt in thy cell : Lifting alike thy head Of placid beauty, feminine yet free, Whether with foam or pictured azure spread The waters be. What is like thee, fair flower, The gentle and the firm? thus bearing up To the blue sky that alabaster cup, As to the shower?
Page 267 - Well, fourteen captains came to him, and said, ' Here we are, will you now go...
Page 160 - Sir," said the baron, addressing the young gentleman, " the fault which was committed by throwing the line into confusion might, in the presence of an enemy, have been fatal ; I arrested you as its supposed author, but I have reason to believe that I was mistaken, and that, in this instance, you were blameless. I ask your pardon ; return to your command ; I would not deal unjustly toward any one, much less toward one whose character as an officer is so respectable.
Page 158 - In the winter he returned to the city ; it was in the highest state of prosperity. The number of inhabitants increased a third in a few years. Manufactures found their profit — art, honour — every one security. Never was the court more lively, more agreeable, more intellectual ; no expenditure was too great to be lavished on religious and secular festivals, on amusements and theatres, on presents and marks of favour. It was heard with pleasure that Juliano Medici, with his young wife, thought...
Page 127 - Now, let us thank the Eternal Power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction : That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour, Serves but to brighten all our future days ! [Eteunt onina.
Page 160 - ... Naples and Sardinia, descend only to the eldest sons in succession ; but the cadets of all these houses, though they possess neither the same titles not privileges, are nor less noble than the heads of their respective houses. The British gentry have not only been distinguished by coats of arms, but have given liveries to their retainers from time immemorial. When Henry the Fowler wished to polish the Germans, he sent commissioners to England to observe the regularity and order with which the...
Page 266 - Harold," with which she seemed quite familiar. She then asked me to give her some of my imitations of him from the " Rejected Addresses." These she did not seem quite so well to comprehend. I told her all I knew of him before he went abroad, to which, like Desdemona,
Page 92 - ... received. I shall conclude this paper, as I did my last, on the same subject, with a general remark. As they who possess less than they expected cannot be happy, to expatiate in chimerical prospects of felicity is to insure the anguish of disappointment, and to lose the power of enjoying whatever may be possessed. Let not youth, therefore, imagine, that with all the advantages of nature and education, marriage will be a constant reciprocation of delight, over which externals will have little...