The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 21Joseph Rogerson, 1844 - Fashion |
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... mean to be con- sistent , I uphold that evil is more prevalent than good ; and , to descend from such grave subjects , that we meet disagreeable people more often than agreeable ones . ' " " " Perhaps so ; but there is good in the world ...
... mean to be con- sistent , I uphold that evil is more prevalent than good ; and , to descend from such grave subjects , that we meet disagreeable people more often than agreeable ones . ' " " " Perhaps so ; but there is good in the world ...
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... mean to tell me you never intend reading anything serious again ? " " Now , Ida , do not preach . You do not know what it is to be under fashionable thraldom , and care , rigid as that of any lady abbess , for fourteen years out of ...
... mean to tell me you never intend reading anything serious again ? " " Now , Ida , do not preach . You do not know what it is to be under fashionable thraldom , and care , rigid as that of any lady abbess , for fourteen years out of ...
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... mean ex- pression than was depicted in the lineaments of their father's miniature . In the course of con- versation , I learned he had died on his passage to England , whither he was accompanied by his family . The children were most ...
... mean ex- pression than was depicted in the lineaments of their father's miniature . In the course of con- versation , I learned he had died on his passage to England , whither he was accompanied by his family . The children were most ...
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... means of coming to any just appreciation of an original or thinking author , especially if his writings reflect the age , the national characteristics , and social circum- stances of the man , is , that in all probability the reader is ...
... means of coming to any just appreciation of an original or thinking author , especially if his writings reflect the age , the national characteristics , and social circum- stances of the man , is , that in all probability the reader is ...
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... means in accordance with our English tastes ; nor do we cordially agree with the moral bearing of some of the philosophical portions . It has been translated from a French translation , and very incorrectly , its melancholy rendered ...
... means in accordance with our English tastes ; nor do we cordially agree with the moral bearing of some of the philosophical portions . It has been translated from a French translation , and very incorrectly , its melancholy rendered ...
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Page 78 - Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil, That mak'st my blood cold and my hair to stare ? Speak to me what thou art.
Page 22 - I come, I come ! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountains with light and song ; Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves opening as I pass.
Page 62 - But she was a soft landscape of mild earth, Where all was harmony, and calm, and quiet, Luxuriant, budding ; cheerful without mirth, Which, if not happiness, is much more nigh it Than are your mighty passions and so forth, Which some call
Page 269 - What is here? Who has done this?" he broke out, after contemplating it in speechless astonishment for an instant. "Here is the divine, the life-giving touch! What inspired hand is beckoning this wood to arise and live? Whose work is this?" "No man's work," replied Drowne. "The figure lies within that block of oak, and it is my business to find it.
Page 300 - Still as you rise, the state exalted too Finds no distemper while 'tis changed by you: Changed like the world's great scene, when without noise The rising sun night's vulgar lights destroys.
Page 300 - Trembles to think she did your foes obey. Great Britain, like blind Polypheme, of late, In a wild rage became the scorn and hate ' Of her proud neighbours, who began to think She with the weight of her own force would sink. But you are come, and all their hopes are vain ; This giant Isle has got her eye again.
Page 41 - Hard by, a cottage chimney smokes From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes...
Page 117 - He is made one with Nature: There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own...
Page 272 - Yet who can doubt, that the very highest state to which a human spirit can attain, in its loftiest aspirations, is its truest and most natural state...
Page 272 - And forthwith he employed himself on the stolid countenance of one of his wooden progeny, and completed it in his own mechanical style, from which he was never known afterwards to deviate. He followed his business industriously for many years, acquired a competence, and, in the latter part of his life, attained to a dignified station in the church, being remembered in records and traditions as Deacon Drowne, the carver. One of his productions, an Indian chief, gilded all over, stood during the better...