New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 147Henry Colburn, 1870 |
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... town for several weeks . He was rather a small man , but made the most of by drill and soldierly bearing , and , while I was talking to him , the fancy struck me that his stock of information and of ideas had been drilled also , so as ...
... town for several weeks . He was rather a small man , but made the most of by drill and soldierly bearing , and , while I was talking to him , the fancy struck me that his stock of information and of ideas had been drilled also , so as ...
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... town , and probably do not live in it , as such a walk would be rather a long one . Now I will tell you what I will do for you ; I mean to be in the same place at the same time for several evenings , alone , mind you , and if I see the ...
... town , and probably do not live in it , as such a walk would be rather a long one . Now I will tell you what I will do for you ; I mean to be in the same place at the same time for several evenings , alone , mind you , and if I see the ...
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... town address from Mrs. Landgrave , who received me in tears and a dressing - gown at three in the afternoon , and la- mented bitterly that John - she meant Ferdinand - should so con- stantly absent himself from his home , without ...
... town address from Mrs. Landgrave , who received me in tears and a dressing - gown at three in the afternoon , and la- mented bitterly that John - she meant Ferdinand - should so con- stantly absent himself from his home , without ...
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... town assembles to admire , for the last time , that flower of virtue and beauty . " Her face was calm and smiling ; death had effaced all the ravages of disease : Tolla was again , for one day , the prettiest girl of Rome . " Like ...
... town assembles to admire , for the last time , that flower of virtue and beauty . " Her face was calm and smiling ; death had effaced all the ravages of disease : Tolla was again , for one day , the prettiest girl of Rome . " Like ...
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... town he was to leave the following morning for Dublin , on his way to London . He was well acquainted with the short cut through the bog ; every inch of the country had been traversed by him over and over again . Here was the rustic ...
... town he was to leave the following morning for Dublin , on his way to London . He was well acquainted with the short cut through the bog ; every inch of the country had been traversed by him over and over again . Here was the rustic ...
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Page 367 - And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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Page 690 - Which through the summer is not heard or seen. As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, — to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee.
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Page 145 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 329 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 28 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
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Page 725 - ... to establish a commercial code on the principles successfully negotiated by Lord Bolingbroke at Utrecht, and which, though baffled at the time by a Whig parliament, were subsequently and triumphantly vindicated by his political pupil and heir Mr.
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