The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 40-41Joseph Rogerson - Fashion |
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... hear from him ; I should die of anxiety before he re- turned . The climate is horribly cold . And moreover , how should he be able to return at one moment or another ? whereas in Holland it is almost like being in France ; one could see ...
... hear from him ; I should die of anxiety before he re- turned . The climate is horribly cold . And moreover , how should he be able to return at one moment or another ? whereas in Holland it is almost like being in France ; one could see ...
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... hear . The young physician hastened to descend and open the door . Rose , whose pale looks and haggard features seemed to contradict her name , was now paler than usual ; and the shabbiness of her dress struck the young doctor more than ...
... hear . The young physician hastened to descend and open the door . Rose , whose pale looks and haggard features seemed to contradict her name , was now paler than usual ; and the shabbiness of her dress struck the young doctor more than ...
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... hear the faltering tongue those wishes tell While doubt and shame on every accent dwell , And death - like paleness tinges all the face ; If far beyond all earth to hold one dear , For ever breathing sighs and bathed in tears , To feed ...
... hear the faltering tongue those wishes tell While doubt and shame on every accent dwell , And death - like paleness tinges all the face ; If far beyond all earth to hold one dear , For ever breathing sighs and bathed in tears , To feed ...
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... hears how you've wasted your half - crown ? " " What for , pray ? " sputtered Con again , quite red in the face ; and ... hear ? " began his father " all your half - crown gone - wasted on sweets ? that is not exactly the manner in which ...
... hears how you've wasted your half - crown ? " " What for , pray ? " sputtered Con again , quite red in the face ; and ... hear ? " began his father " all your half - crown gone - wasted on sweets ? that is not exactly the manner in which ...
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... hear of his return . They neither desire nor will they even submit to have Henri V. forced on them . Should a Revolution be at hand , it will be fol- lowed by a Republic ; to be followed , as usual , by something else . But not even ...
... hear of his return . They neither desire nor will they even submit to have Henri V. forced on them . Should a Revolution be at hand , it will be fol- lowed by a Republic ; to be followed , as usual , by something else . But not even ...
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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.