New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 80Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1847 |
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... passed since Fairfax was at Brownswick , and Margaret had laid by her widow's weeds . Young , beautiful , graceful ... passed over without any event , and Margaret Graham reached her four - and - twentieth birth - day . Miss Harding ...
... passed since Fairfax was at Brownswick , and Margaret had laid by her widow's weeds . Young , beautiful , graceful ... passed over without any event , and Margaret Graham reached her four - and - twentieth birth - day . Miss Harding ...
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... passed since we met and parted , because the time which has gone by , though it has worked a change upon my outward form , though it and the things it brought with it have crushed and bent the light spirit which once mocked at adversity ...
... passed since we met and parted , because the time which has gone by , though it has worked a change upon my outward form , though it and the things it brought with it have crushed and bent the light spirit which once mocked at adversity ...
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... passed , all was bright and smiling . Towards dinner - time , on the first day of their meeting again , Fairfax felt himself bound in courtesy to tear himself away from her and return to the house of Sir Wild Clerk , but ere he went he ...
... passed , all was bright and smiling . Towards dinner - time , on the first day of their meeting again , Fairfax felt himself bound in courtesy to tear himself away from her and return to the house of Sir Wild Clerk , but ere he went he ...
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... passed through a whole wilderness of casks and carboys , bales , boxes , and other recipients , containing the multifarious stock of a drysalter , and ascending the stairs , was ushered into the room where I first had the honour of ...
... passed through a whole wilderness of casks and carboys , bales , boxes , and other recipients , containing the multifarious stock of a drysalter , and ascending the stairs , was ushered into the room where I first had the honour of ...
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... passing in my thoughts , for he shook his head with a sort of mournful smile . " Yes ! " he said , " every one has his mission . Happy they who con- secrate their talents to the advancement of useful knowledge ! Carême still lives to ...
... passing in my thoughts , for he shook his head with a sort of mournful smile . " Yes ! " he said , " every one has his mission . Happy they who con- secrate their talents to the advancement of useful knowledge ! Carême still lives to ...
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Page 450 - If you can look into the seeds of time, And say, which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg, nor fear, Your favours, nor your hate.
Page 189 - Shakspeare, that none of them, as far as we know, have ever thought of availing themselves of his sonnets for tracing the circumstances of his life. These sonnets paint most unequivocally the actual situation and sentiments of the poet; they enable us to become acquainted with the passions of the man; they even contain the most remarkable confessions of his youthful errors.
Page 40 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 398 - How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity...
Page 222 - From the very brink of the river there rises a gentle slope of green sward, crowned in many places with a plentiful growth of birch, poplar, beech, elm, and oak. Is it too much for the eye of philanthropy to discern, through the vista of futurity, this noble stream, connecting as it does the fertile shores of two spacious lakes, with crowded steamboats on its bosom, and populous towns on its borders " ? — I speak of the bank of the river there.
Page 477 - ESE, close along the lofty perpendicular cliffs of the icy barrier. It is impossible to conceive a more solid-looking mass of ice; not the smallest appearance of any rent or fissure could we discover throughout its whole extent, and the intensely bright sky beyond it but too plainly indicated the great distance to which it reached to the southward.
Page 479 - ... eye as immediately returned to contemplate the awful destruction that threatened in one short hour to close the world, and all its hopes and joys and sorrows, upon us for ever. In this our deep distress we called upon the Lord, and He heard our voices out of His temple, and our cry came before Him...
Page 479 - ... against the precipitous faces of the bergs; now lifting them nearly to their summit, then forcing them again far beneath their water-line, and sometimes rending them into a multitude of brilliant fragments against their projecting points. Sublime and magnificent as such a scene must have appeared under different circumstances, to us it was awful, if not appalling. For eight hours we had been gradually drifting towards what to human eyes appeared inevitable destruction : the high waves and deep...
Page 291 - I'll take good care it shall never get in again ;' and I may well say the same of this parchment usurper who has taken possession of my stomach. How he got there is the wonder, for years have elapsed since I swallowed glue — I mean jelly or mockturtle.
Page 88 - The gardens of the Mandarins in the city of Ning-po are very pretty and unique ; they contain a choice selection of the ornamental trees and shrubs of China, and generally a considerable number of dwarf trees. Many of the latter are really curious, and afford another example of the patience and ingenuity of this people. Some of the specimens are only a few inches high, and yet seem hoary with age. Not only are they trained to represent old trees in miniature, but some are made to resemble the fashionable...