New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 94Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Hood, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1852 |
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... English , from under- estimating the rest of the world . And it must be acknowledged that in regard to the mental process by which that pleasing result is attained , our transatlantic cousins have the merit of being , if not less ...
... English , from under- estimating the rest of the world . And it must be acknowledged that in regard to the mental process by which that pleasing result is attained , our transatlantic cousins have the merit of being , if not less ...
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... English mail - steamer Europa , belong- ing to the Cunard company , and returned by the American mail - steamer Atlantic , belonging to the company named after Mr. Collins . I am bound to mention that in the Europa , in consequence of a ...
... English mail - steamer Europa , belong- ing to the Cunard company , and returned by the American mail - steamer Atlantic , belonging to the company named after Mr. Collins . I am bound to mention that in the Europa , in consequence of a ...
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... English against the Americans . I do not believe that in any portion of the Union does that ( as Punch so happily calls it ) " flunkeyism " prevail , which is so common amongst that par- ticular section of English and Scotch society ...
... English against the Americans . I do not believe that in any portion of the Union does that ( as Punch so happily calls it ) " flunkeyism " prevail , which is so common amongst that par- ticular section of English and Scotch society ...
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... English peer , who , in the country , are on visiting terms with the family of a neighbour , a very rich manufacturer , do not condescend even to bow to them in London ; and this state of things the manufacturer has endured . At the ...
... English peer , who , in the country , are on visiting terms with the family of a neighbour , a very rich manufacturer , do not condescend even to bow to them in London ; and this state of things the manufacturer has endured . At the ...
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... English coffee - room ; and you had better not run the risk of speaking to the lady who may be sitting next you . Yet , perhaps , this reserve may be justifiable in its origin ; since , for such peculiarities as I have seen in the ...
... English coffee - room ; and you had better not run the risk of speaking to the lady who may be sitting next you . Yet , perhaps , this reserve may be justifiable in its origin ; since , for such peculiarities as I have seen in the ...
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Page 215 - Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now, And but for that chill/ changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy...
Page 215 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 161 - It was the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, till I confess it began to be something of a bore to me.
Page 283 - mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding like a bee, — Both were mine! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy When I was young! When I was young? — Ah, woful When! Ah, for the change 'twixt Now and Then!
Page 373 - Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.
Page 204 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 286 - Besides, it was talk not flowing any-whither like a river, but spreading every-whither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it.
Page 13 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 358 - Nor will men persist in confounding, any more than God confounds, with genuine infidelity and an atheism of the heart those passionate impatient struggles of a boy towards distant truth and love, made in the dark, and ended by one sweep of the natural seas before the full moral sunrise could shine out on him.
Page 410 - I SEE the wealthy miller yet, His double chin, his portly size, And who that knew him could forget The busy wrinkles round his eyes ? The slow wise smile that, round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half- within and half- without, And full of dealings with the world...