The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 40-41Joseph Rogerson - Fashion |
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... head , my heart , and my health , are in such a deplorable state , that I have not strength to re - write my letter . " P.S. - I have this moment received letters from Paris . They tell me that M. de Villefort , who came here , has ...
... head , my heart , and my health , are in such a deplorable state , that I have not strength to re - write my letter . " P.S. - I have this moment received letters from Paris . They tell me that M. de Villefort , who came here , has ...
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... head of Père Duret's bed , " my term has but just commenced ; and I am only come to ask if you would be able to find a place for a coach and horse , should I want it . " " Ah ! it's about a coach - house , " continued the old man ; 66 ...
... head of Père Duret's bed , " my term has but just commenced ; and I am only come to ask if you would be able to find a place for a coach and horse , should I want it . " " Ah ! it's about a coach - house , " continued the old man ; 66 ...
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... head resting on one of his hands , which she bathed with tears . They had just learned that the bailiff's property was going to change hands ; and they had hastened thither less to pay the last duties to the deceased , than to secure ...
... head resting on one of his hands , which she bathed with tears . They had just learned that the bailiff's property was going to change hands ; and they had hastened thither less to pay the last duties to the deceased , than to secure ...
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... head , and sometimes they even touched her . In the midst of this horrible situation her child was born . Her shrieks and cries were heard in the town ; but no one dared to go to her assistance , so much were they afraid of that man ...
... head , and sometimes they even touched her . In the midst of this horrible situation her child was born . Her shrieks and cries were heard in the town ; but no one dared to go to her assistance , so much were they afraid of that man ...
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... head on his hand , watch with large won- dering eyes everybody and everything that passed along . Nothing escaped him ; without moving his head , his eyes took in and followed everything with immense interest ; though a quick - breathed ...
... head on his hand , watch with large won- dering eyes everybody and everything that passed along . Nothing escaped him ; without moving his head , his eyes took in and followed everything with immense interest ; though a quick - breathed ...
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Page 81 - I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man. Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard ! Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow ; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts ; Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset ; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock.
Page 137 - A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 81 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 88 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 90 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Page 81 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange : Unlifted was the clinking latch ; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, " My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Page 54 - I shall say but very short prayers, and then thrust out my hands' - as the sign to strike. He put his hair up, under a white satin cap which the bishop had carried, and said, 'I have a good cause and a gracious God on my side.
Page 133 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, 28 If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.
Page 9 - Bra. Look to her, Moor ; have a quick eye to see ; She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Page 55 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun, Faint from the west, emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep-hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.