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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... light , obtain their sight ? Ay ! and would the foot , the skin , the hair , the skull , and the intellect of the negro , if his race were for countless ages engrafted on Europe , develop the European peculiarities ? -Well , in the ...
... light , obtain their sight ? Ay ! and would the foot , the skin , the hair , the skull , and the intellect of the negro , if his race were for countless ages engrafted on Europe , develop the European peculiarities ? -Well , in the ...
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... light breakfast here - slops ( catlap , you know ) and so on - then drive there and have a regular tuck - out ; broiled bones , sherry coblers , sausages , and so on . " The colonel munching and smacking his lips , as if he was engaged ...
... light breakfast here - slops ( catlap , you know ) and so on - then drive there and have a regular tuck - out ; broiled bones , sherry coblers , sausages , and so on . " The colonel munching and smacking his lips , as if he was engaged ...
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... light , youthful figure , and the beaming radiance of his eagle eye . Having begun hunting during the last advent of mahogany tops , he had never wholly adopted the white ones , and was now - neither in the fashion nor out - with rose ...
... light , youthful figure , and the beaming radiance of his eagle eye . Having begun hunting during the last advent of mahogany tops , he had never wholly adopted the white ones , and was now - neither in the fashion nor out - with rose ...
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... light , with music's thrilling sound , But on the hills which smiling beam with glories of the day , And on the brow of infancy - the pure - the bright - the gay . The beautiful , the beautiful , what is the happy hour When beauty sways ...
... light , with music's thrilling sound , But on the hills which smiling beam with glories of the day , And on the brow of infancy - the pure - the bright - the gay . The beautiful , the beautiful , what is the happy hour When beauty sways ...
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... light , has a very noble aspect . The library is at once spacious , and airy , and light , and there is also a private study , with a fire - proof strong room at- tached for deeds and valuables . In the centre of the house is an ...
... light , has a very noble aspect . The library is at once spacious , and airy , and light , and there is also a private study , with a fire - proof strong room at- tached for deeds and valuables . In the centre of the house is an ...
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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...